Changing the ASPX for the main front panel in InfoView 1

Yes if you look up modifiying Infoview homepage on BOBJ's website you will find a pdf doc that gives instructions on how to do this.

Thanks so much!
satinsilhouette

Hi

I have done this, but the only options available to me are changing the color scheme, or logo. It is more than that. It is changing the words of the panel as described above. Please let me know if there are more in dept explanations available somewhere. I cannot see to find any.

EO
Hertfordshire, England

From what I have been researching today, which is close to what you are doing, you have to use a portlet to achieve anything more than changing the logo or the look and feel of the homepage.

Thanks so much!
satinsilhouette

I updated our main panel text by modifying the following file:
c:\Program Files\Business Objects\BusinessObjects Enterprise 11.5\Web Content\Enterprise115\InfoView\home.aspx

The first thing I tried was removing the entire main table from this page and replacing it with my own text. However, this produced ASP errors. I'm not an ASP programmer so I used the following work around:

1) Edit c:\Program Files\Business Objects\BusinessObjects Enterprise 11.5\Web Content\Enterprise115\InfoView\default.css to add the following line to the start of the file:

.noshow {display: none;}

This defines a CSS style that will hide whatever it is applied to.

2) Edit the home.aspx file to change two lines as follows:
a) <table class="list" border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3">
to
<table class="noshow">

b) <aspanel id=messagePanel runat="server">
to
<aspanel id=messagePanel class="noshow" runat="server">

This uses the CSS from step 1 to hide the display of the pre-written text from our users but allows BO to render it so it doesn't produce ASP errors.

3) Add your new text in HTML format between
</table></aspanel>
</td></tr>
and
</table>
</form>

As I said, I'm not a developer so there is probably a more elegant way of going about this, but that's what I did - it works for me, and it didn't take long to implement.