on 2021 Feb 23 8:51 PM
I used the ThemeDesigner tool, following the instructions in the SAP BusinessObjects BI Customization Guide for version 4.3 to create a theme with a custom background image and logo. However, when I attempted to follow the instructions for deploying this theme, the entire process failed. First, it failed to let me even turn on custom themes. I figured out a way to get around this. But now the custom theme shows, but it doesn't have the custom images I built into the theme.
My environment:
SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.3 Support Pack 1 Patch 1. Version: 14.3.1.3751
What I did:
1. built a theme with a custom logo and background using ThemeDesigner. Downloaded that theme as a zip file.
2. create a <INSTALLDIR>\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\warfiles\webapps\BOE\WEB-INF\config\custom\FioriBI.properties file. Set theme.enable=custom in this file.
3. uploaded the contents of that them into the <INSTALLDIR>\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\warfiles\webapps\BOE\WEB-INF\eclipse\plugins\businessobjects.webpath.FioriBI.jar file, web\com\sap\fioribi\css\custom-css, replacing the 3 files that were already there.
4. Ran the wdeploy utility which gave no errors.
5. restarted Tomcat via the Central Configuration Manager.
At this point, there was no change at all to the environment from the defaults.
Some searching for what I might be missing led me to create an <INSTALLDIR\tomcat\webapps\BOE\WEB-INF\config\custom\FioriBI.properties file and set theme.enable=custom in this file.
After restarting Tomcat via CMC, I now get a new login screen that has an orange "sun-burst" background instead of the default blue screen. This isn't the image included in the custom-css.zip file I downloaded from ThemeDesigner. It looks like this might be the default place-holder background image for a custom theme? I'm not sure, but it's not an image I created. The custom logo I had in the theme was also ignored, leaving the default blue SAP logo.
When this failed, I also tried deleting the contents of <INSTALLDIR>\tomcat\work\Catalina\localhost\BOE and then restarting Tomcat, but this did not change anything.
So :
1. Why is the FioriBI.properties file in the documentation not working, but an undocumented file is?
2. How do I get my custom theme to actually work?
Hello Charles,
I am sorry that nobody responded to your question. I faced these issue of recent and these are the steps that helped me.
The reason why it didn't work for me was that I did not use Un-deploy first clear out the webapps folder.
Sincerely,
Ajay
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