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IBM Cognos 10 Platform => Cognos 10 BI => Cognos Administration => Topic started by: Ammus1234 on 27 Aug 2014 07:27:57 AM

Title: Customize top banner
Post by: Ammus1234 on 27 Aug 2014 07:27:57 AM
Hi All,

I want to add a dynamic date to the top banner in cognos connection. The date will be the last date on which the database is updated.
I modified system.xml to replace 'IBM cognos connection' text with another one. But not able to make the text dynamic. I can have the date in a file (eg. .txt). Is it possible to read the file content in system.xml and display content?
Any help would be highly appreciated.

Cognos version 10.2.1 FP4
Title: Re: Customize top banner
Post by: Grim on 27 Aug 2014 11:02:17 AM
This should help you with the customization part:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ba-pp-infrastructure-portals-page631/index.html

As for the date part. You are probably going to have to work some kind of html/javascript/CSS to read it from a file. This file will need to be accessible by the Webserver (httpd).
Title: Re: Customize top banner
Post by: Ammus1234 on 27 Aug 2014 10:33:58 PM
Thanks Grim. I already have the link, looking into that I added the text.
But I want to make it dynamic inside the xml. I'm not sure on that part.

Now trying with themedesigner, find it more easy and organised. Let you know how it goes.