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How to: Make a New Skin Print E-mail
Tuesday, 08 August 2006
SUMMARY
You'd like to personolize the Web Access to suit your company's color and fonts.
SOLUTION
You'll need to create a new skin, or modify an existing one.
There are two methods to do this; one is by using the SDK and the other is manually.

1. Creating or Modifying a Skin

Modifying an existing skin

Go to $installdir$\E-BI\Config\Skins (in a default installation, $installdir$ is C:\Program Files\Panorama). Each skin has its own folder. Go to the folder that has the skin you'ld like to change, edit the skin.txt file in it, and enter new parameters that suit your needs. After this, you're not required to continue to Step 2.

Tip: If you'd like to change the default skin used by the Web Access, just edit the skin.txt file found in the \Default folder.

Creating a skin with the SDK


If you'd like to use the SDK, open pnSkinBuilder.exe found in $installdir$\E-BI\Utils (in a default installation, $installdir$ is C:\Program Files\Panorama). Design your skin, save it, and then proceed to the next step, Adding the skin.

Creating a skin manually

All the skins are stores in $installdir$\E-BI\Config\Skins. In this folder, you'll find a single folder for each you have, and a file
 called Skins.xml, which is a list of all the skins used. Now go to the \Default folder, open the skin.txt file, and copy off of its contents. Now go back to the \Skins folder, create a new folder bearing the desired name of your new skin - "MyNewSkin". In this folder, create a new skin.txt file, paste what you've previously copied, and enter new values to each of the parameters listed. The parameter names are self-explanatory; if something is unclear, please contact the Technical Support Team. Save the file, and proceed to the next step.

2. Adding your new skin to the list of used skins

Open the skins.xml file found under $installdir$\E-BI\Config\Skins, and add new lines in it to include your new skin, like so:

<Skins>
   <Skin Folder="Steel">
      <Caption Language="en" Value="Steel"/>
      <Caption Language="he" Value="Steel"/>
   </Skin>
   <Skin Folder="Desert">
      <Caption Language="en" Value="Desert"/>
      <Caption Language="he" Value="Desert"/>
   </Skin>
   <Skin Folder="Iceblue">
      <Caption Language="en" Value="Iceblue"/>
      <Caption Language="he" Value="Iceblue"/>
   </Skin>
   <Skin Folder="Sunrise">
      <Caption Language="en" Value="Sunrise"/>
      <Caption Language="he" Value="Sunrise"/>
   </Skin>
   <Skin Folder="Default">
      <Caption Language="en" Value="Default"/>
      <Caption Language="he" Value="Default"/>
   </Skin>
   <Skin Folder="Dashboard">
      <Caption Language="en" Value="Dashboard"/>
      <Caption Language="he" Value="Dashboard"/>
    </Skin>
    <Skin Folder="MyNewSkin">
      <Caption Language="en" Value="
MyNewSkin"/>
      <Caption Language="he" Value="
MyNewSkin"/>
    </Skin>

</Skins>

Save the file, and you're done.

 

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