Customize BO XI Release 2 .NET InfoView

[Seabrook7]

Hi All,

We have the .NET BO Enterprise Release 2 InfoView installed on our IIS server. We're trying to remove some of the Business Objects welcome text and logos. I opened the site in VS 2005 to try to manipulate some of this data, but it seems like most of the text is stored in other files. Does anyone have any idea where this stuff is and how to change it?

Specifically on the logon page is says "Welcome To BusinessObjects" right above the users name and password.

Also on the home page once the user is logged in, it has some Business Objects advertising.

I asked Business Objects for some help with this and they said they stopped supporting InfoView customization beyond what you can do in the dashboard.

Thanks!

 

[laghes]

you can customise the code. There are some settings that you can aldo do in Admin Console. But if you want to change code/words, you will have to customize the CSP/ASP files accordingly

 

[mdwyer]

And be wary of making too many changes. We heavily customized the CSP pages in CE9, only to find that CE10 was different enough that it was not cost effective to upgrade the customizations. I don't even want to look at the implications with XI. If we do upgrade, we will suffer with the out-of-the-box functionality and what flexibility may be allowed (in the dashboard?). Ironically, Crystal Decisions incorporated many of *our* look-and-feel and usability customizations into CE10! (almost as if they had given our RFP for customizations to their development team, even though we turned down their very pricey response)

 

[hilfy]

We're looking at trying to do some similar things in InfoView. Because InfoView is set up for localization, text is stored in various resource files. You basically have to do some sort of grep through the files to find what you're looking for. The other issue is that, while the .aspx files are included, not all of the .cs files are there, there are no projects set up and the make files are incomplete, so it's very difficult to compile your changes after you make them.

The consulting company that we're working with for our implementation (DecisionFirst) is looking to see if there's a way to do this for us. I'll try to post how to do this if they determine that it's possible.

-Dell

A computer only does what you actually told it to do - not what you thought you told it to do.