Something I remembered after my last blog was that whilst using OBIEE on a WebLogic platform I realized that there would be differences in the deploying of custom css classes. The usual rules regarding the custom.css file found in

OracleBI\web\app\res\s_oracle10\b_mozilla_4\custom.css

and copied to OracleBIData\web\res don’t appear to apply, and obviously the location in the oc4j_bi folder isn’t going to apply either.

After much fiddling about it turns out the only way that appears to work is to copy the s_oracle10 folder and save a custom version to your systems equivalent of this location: C:\bea\user_projects\domains\WL_OBIEE\servers\OBIEE\tmp\_WL_user\OBIEE\u23xcw\war\res. It appears that this is the only location it needs to be copied to.

Create your custom class.

Apply your class to an appropriate report element, and save the changes.

Clear your browser cache and refresh the view.

To alter the class just edit the file.

Clear the browser cache and refresh the view, couldn’t be simpler.

N.B These colours were chosen just to make the demo obvious!