OBIEE 12c Theme not applying

ideal2545 · Feb 25, 2016 4:28PM

Hi Guys,

I'm trying to get a custom theme applied to my development system but I can't seem to get OBIEE to recognize the theme, it just defaults back to s_blafp.

Here's what I've done:

Created a folder under /app/oracle/biee/bicustom and unzipped the bitemplate jar file there, so now that folder has three folders:

META-INF

res

WEB-INF

Inside of res folder (/app/oracle/biee/bicustom/res) I have created created two folders

s_company

sk_company

and copies files from the Alta theme directly into those folders, in the filemap.xml I have the following:

<Hierarchy>s_Alta / s_company</Hierarchy>

</Styles>

<Hierarchy>sk_Alta / sk_company</Hierarchy>

</Skins>

</FileMap>

In weblogic, I deployed that folder under the name "AnalyticsRes" and gave its context root /analyticsRes, gave it the path to files as /app/oracle/biee/bicustom and I've verified that if I go to: http://SERVER:PORT/analyticsRes/res/s_company/master/oracle_logo.png I can view the logo file.

Now I've gone to instanceconfig under /user_projects/domains/bi/config/fmwconfig/biconfig/OBIPS/instanceconfig.xml

and altered/added the following:

<URL>

<CustomerResourcePhysicalPath>/app/oracle/biee/bicustom/res</CustomerResourcePhysicalPath>

<CustomerResourceVirtualPath>/analyticsRes/res</CustomerResourceVirtualPath>

</URL>

<UI>

<DefaultSkin>company</DefaultSkin>

<DefaultStyle>company</DefaultStyle>

</UI>

Now, I restart OBIPS1 and it just defaults back to s_blafp theme, am I missing something? It's driving me crazy

ideal2545 · Feb 25, 2016 5:46PM

As an added note, if I go do a dashboards properties and select the theme, it actually says default(company) so its seeing the name, its just not taking any of the themeing, just defaulting back to s_blafp theme.

ideal2545 · Feb 25, 2016 9:08PM

I've narrowed it down to an issue with this in the instanceconfig.xml:

	<URL>
		<CustomerResourcePhysicalPath>/app/oracle/biee/bicustom/res</CustomerResourcePhysicalPath>
		<CustomerResourceVirtualPath>/analyticsRes/res</CustomerResourceVirtualPath>
	</URL>

Its either not liking the Virtual Path or the CustomerResourcePhysicalPath, but I do not know why.

Felipe_Idalgo · Feb 26, 2016 8:58AM

Hi,

Custom skin/style aren't working properly in OBIEE 12c yet

I made this workaround in a custumer here in Brazil, this approach was validated by Oracle USA

1 - Go to your analytics.ear folder "[ORACLE_HOME]/bi/bifoundation/jee/";

2 - Make a backup from analytics.ear, if you have any problem on that, you will use this backup to rollback all your changes;

3 - Download analytics.ear for your station or a workstation that you has 7-zip installed;

4 - Open analytics.ear using 7-zip and then edit analytics.war;

5 - Inside analytics.war you have all default style/skin folders, just duplicate your preferred theme (s and sk folder), for example, if you choose "blafp", duplicate s_blafp and sk_blafp as s_company and sk_compnay (or the name you want after underscore "_");

6 - When you finish all modifications, close up 7-zip and then you asked to salve your changes. Save your changes;

Don't forget to make your changes in your custom folder, don't change default folders.

7 - Turn off your managed server and Move your new analytics.ear to "[ORACLE_HOME]/bi/bifoundation/jee/"

8 - Go to WLS console and then go to deployments tab;

9 - Localize analytics app, click in edit and then update your app;

10 - Start up your manage server;

It's done, just call your custom style on your instalceconfig.xml to make that your default

<UI>

<DefaultSkin>company</DefaultSkin>

<DefaultStyle>company</DefaultStyle>

</UI>

Hope this help

Felipe Idalgo

Gautham Narayanan-Oracle · May 25, 2016 9:16AM

I followed all the steps above to edit the analytics.ear file and added a custom theme folders inside that. Deployed the new ear but in dashboard properties screen I am not getting the new theme name. Any idea about this issue?

jackohug · May 25, 2016 10:36AM

Have a look at Doc ID 2131220.1. The location your custom EAR needs to be deployed to is actually ORACLE_HOME/user_projects/domains/bi/bidata/components/OBIPS/bicustom.ear

Chet Justice · Jun 14, 2016 12:39PM

I'm having a similar issue.

This despite following the (not good) instructions from Doc ID 2131220.1 including installing the April CPU and one-off patch.

When I go to view:source, I can see in some places my changes were successful (i.e. references to s_MyCompany and sk_MyCompany), but in others in has defaulted to the /analytics/res/(random_characters?)/s and sk_blafp

Per the example in the doc above, or perhaps that was from the actual documentation (the support doc above is a fix to the errata in the documentation, FYI. Just don't look at the screenshots...), I updated oracle_logo.png in the res/s_MyCompany/master folder (with an awesome oraclenerd logo), nothing.

Inspecting that element this is what I see:

Screenshot from 2016-06-14 12:37:48.png

I want to nuke any and all references to s_/sk_blafp folders (OK, the JS can stay there...)

Chet Justice · Jun 14, 2016 1:35PM

So...rookie error. Didn't clear the cache (Chrome).

Screenshot from 2016-06-14 13:29:09.png

I still see references to s_ and sk_blafp.

I understand the JS references may need to stay the same (upgrades, etc), but the skins/styles? Is this something I just have to learn to live with?

Allan Thuesen · Jul 13, 2016 2:25AM

Hi @Chet Justice

I'm seeing the same problem. Did you find a solution for the references to s_ and sk_blafp?

Thanks

Allan

[Deleted User] · Jul 13, 2016 3:40AM

Allan,

Please open a new thread with your own question instead of resurrecting an old one.

Allan Thuesen · Jul 13, 2016 9:41AM

Christian,

I'm sorry that you dont like my reply to Chet.

I just wanted to hear if he found a solution to his problem, that he already mentioned here, since I'm facing the same

@Chet Justice, If Christian doesnt like you to answer in this 1 month old thread, please feel free to send me a PM.

Allan

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