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Customizing the Banner

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You can customize the links that display in the banner area for the public user and for Group Views. You can also change the height of the banner, remove the banner, and display a welcome message in the banner.

From the Logo & Links window in the View Builder, you can customize the display of all links that are available to the public user and in Group Views. By default, the links available for Group Views are Logoff, Accessibility, Tree, Tools, Recent, Favorites, Group Views, Utilities, and Help.

When a user logs into Dashboard to their personal view (My View) all available links appear.

Note:

The following image shows the Logo & Links window containing the image filename text box for displaying company logo with option buttons indicating a left, center or right position, and an Available Links list box for adding links and a Selected Links list box to order the links.

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Procedure: How to Add Links to the Banner
  1. From the View Builder, click Logo & Links. The Logo & Links window opens.
  2. Highlight the link you want to add in the Available Links list.
  3. Click:
    • Add to add a link to the bottom of the Selected Links list.
    • Insert to insert a link above the highlighted position in the Selected Links list.

    The order the links display in the Selected Links list is how they appear in Dashboard. You can move the links using the up and down arrows between the Available Links and Selected Links lists.

  4. Click Preview.
  5. Click Save to save changes.
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Procedure: How to Remove Links From the Banner
  1. From the View Builder, click Logo & Links. The Logo & Links window opens.
  2. Highlight the link you want to remove from the Selected Links list.
  3. Click Remove. The link is removed from the Selected Links list.
  4. Click Preview.
  5. Click Save to save changes.
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Procedure: How to Clear All Links From the Banner
  1. From the View Builder, click Logo & Links. The Logo & Links window opens.
  2. Click Clear. All links in the Selected Links list clear, including the default Login link.
  3. Click Preview.
  4. Click Save to save changes.
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Procedure: How to Remove the Banner
  1. From the View Builder, click Composition.
  2. Deselect the Check to use Banner check box.
  3. Click Preview.
  4. Click Save.
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Procedure: How to Change the Banner Height
  1. Open the profile.prf file for editing. This file is located in WebFOCUS76/worp/worp_html/ in one of the following folders:
    • worp0
    • worp1
    • worp2
    • worp3
    • worp4
    • worp5
    • worp6
    • worp7

    The number of the folder depends on the template you have chosen. To determine the number, hover your mouse over the template in the Look window. Alternatively, the numbers are in order (0–7) from left to right starting with the top left template.

  2. Edit the bannerHeight section of the file to the desired height. The number represents the number of pixels for the banner height. The default value is 105.

    Note: The banner height must be a minimum of 50 pixels in order to sufficiently display the banner links. Some banner links, such as Help, have a drop-down menu associated with them. If the banner height is too small, the drop-down menu will not display and the functionality will not be available to the user.

  3. Save and exit the profile.prf file.
  4. Open the View Builder and select the Public or Group view that uses the banner.
  5. Select the banner in the Look window for the change to be propagated to the user's Dashboard view.
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Displaying a Welcome Message in the Banner

A welcome message can be displayed in the left top corner of the banner, where the name of the user logged into the view appears as “Welcome, user name”, as shown in the following image.

The welcome message can be set to display globally in all views by editing a variable setting in the bid-config.xml file or set to display in specific views using the Dashboard View Builder. Note that the text in the welcome message inherits the same color used for the banner links.

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Procedure: How to Display a Welcome Message in the Banner of All Views
  1. In the WebFOCUS76\worp\conf directory, open the bid-config.xml file in a text editor.
  2. Edit the following variable to change it from: 
    <internal-var name="showBannerUserGreeting" value="false"/>

    to

    <internal-var name="showBannerUserGreeting" value="true"/>

Note: After making changes to the bid-config.xml file, use the WebFOCUS Console to clear memory cache, or restart the application. Until this is done, the change is not effective.

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Procedure: How to Display a Welcome Message in the Banner of Specific Views
  1. Log on to the Dashboard View Builder.
  2. Select a view.
  3. Click Edit Settings.
  4. Click the True option to the right of showBannerUserGreeting in the Settings pane.
  5. Click Save Settings.
  6. Click Close.

For more information about using the Edit Settings functionality in the Dashboard View Builder, see Customizing Dashboard Pages for a Public or Group View.

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