Customizing InfoView ASP.NET

[jedownsjr]

We are upgrading to from CE10 to BOEXiR2. Our current production site is using a lightly customized version of CE10's ePortfolio (customized for our intranet graphics, a little custom javascript to select the authentication type, etc.).

ePortfolio was in CSP. With BOEXiR2, ePortfolio is now called InfoView and is written in ASP.NET. While I had knowledge of ASP/CSP, I am not very familiar with ASP.NET, so I am having difficulty getting started customizing it with Visual Studio .NET.

I need a jumpstart. Is there a .NET project installed with BOEXiR2 that I can open in Visual Studio .NET? Can anyone provide any pointers as to how to open the ASP.NET as a project in Visual Studio .NET as well as where to change text on the loginform.aspx page? It looks like that page uses some global variable values contained in other files, but changing them didn't seem to update the site.

Thanks in advance for any help ... I'm a newbie to ASP.NET!

 

[jedownsjr]

I referenced this thread, which is now closed, but it looks like no one had an answer before. Hopefully someone has been successful by now:

thread782-1224770

 

[hilfy]

There is no project, but you can open the individual files .aspx and .cs files and edit them as well as the web.config file.

For the web.config file, there are actually two of them that you may want to look at - one in the WebContent "master" folder and one in the Infoview folder. Start with the one in the InfoView folder. You'll find that there is a setting in there for the authentication type. You can also find some documentation about these files in the Administrator's guide.

To customize some of the graphics, you may be able to handle a some of it in the Central Configuration Manager - go to BusinessObjects Enterprise Applications and select "InfoView". The first tab allows you to change the logo and colors that are displayed in InfoView.

The text that is displayed on the login screen is more problematic. Because InfoView is set up as multi-language capable, all of the strings that appear on the screens are in resource files which are compiled into the application. Since there is no project file, I haven't found a way to rebuild the parts that are compiled. However, that doesn't mean that you can't edit loginform.aspx to take out the references to the strings in the resource file and replace them with static strings containing your own text.

Once you've made changes to the web.config and any other code, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that you save backup copies of those files. That way if a HotFix or service pack overwrite them, you have an easy way to get them back.

-Dell

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