Best way to build, script and deploy OBIEE customizations

Question

On my current project we are doing a lot of customizations in OBIEE by hacking in some of the out-of-box files such as

* bi/bifoundation/web/msgdb/l_en/messages/uicmsgs/obiprp.promptcomponents.xml
* bi/bifoundation/web/msgdb/messages/formaattemplates.xml
* bi/bifoundation/web/schemas/analysis_formats.xsd
* servers/elhobiee_ms1/tmp/_WL_user/analytics/7icx67/war/res/s_Alta/master/master.css

If this is the right way, what’s the best way of scripting/automating such changes`

* File copy
* sed and awk scripts
* diff files + patch

Right now we are manually copying 100+ files and this is time-consuming and error-prone.

Syedsalmancs110 · Answer

The method you are currently using is not a supported approach as you have already mentiond its time consuming as all your changes would be overwritten with next Patch installation in your environment and you would need to do all the changes from scratch, best method is documented approach of custom style and skin

OBIEE11g Whitepaper: Customizing Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g (Doc ID 1277311.1)

OBIEE 11.1.1.7.0 : 19.9 Customizing the Oracle BI Web User Interface

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28280_01/bi.1111/e10541/answersconfigset.htm#BIESG9186

OBIEE 11.1.1.9.0: 19.9 Customizing the Oracle BI Web User Interface

https://docs.oracle.com/middleware/11119/biee/BIESG/answersconfigset.htm#BIESG9186