OBIEE 11g: Customizing the OBIEE Home Link

Noha Shaaban

Hello,

I have been trying to find ways to rename the OBIEE home link from: http://Host:7777/analytics/saw.dll?bieehome to "Data Portal" for example. How can I do that if feasible?

Thanks,

Noha

[Deleted User]

What do you call a "home link"? This?

Noha Shaaban

Yes, The link to OBIEE home page. Instead of https://host:port/Analytics/saw.ddl?bieehome, I need to show "CIB Data Portal", just a text instead of the link.

[Deleted User]

You want to have the URL display a static text? What would be the point of that? I think you're a bit confused about requirements there. Maybe you mean the title tag displayed in the browser tab or the header name of the OBIEE header or something.

Gianni Ceresa

Hi,

Do you know how "internet" works, right?

To show your "CIB Data Portal" instead of the URL you must create your own browser ... (I'm sure you can compile your own version of a free browser to add a piece of code doing that).

More seriously the only thing crossing my mind now would be a Chrome extension detecting the URL and replacing it once the page is loaded.

That's not an OBIEE thing as you want to change the behavior of the browser ...

rmoff

As the others have pointed out, you can't change the text just arbitrarily. But you can "prettify" the URL: a) Ask your network admins to create a DNS CNAME for 10.11.2.143 to "cib-data-portal" (you can't have spaces) b) Set up a web server listening on the default HTTP port 80 that would forward all requests to the backend port & application path That way users would then access OBIEE at http://cib-data-portal/

Noha Shaaban

Thank you so much. This will do. Appreciated.

Gianni Ceresa

So all you were looking for is a custom domain for OBIEE and a proxy to hide the port number.

Different than

Noha Shaaban wrote:...need to show "CIB Data Portal", just a text instead of the link.

[Deleted User]

I doubt it but I guess he "settles" for that :-P