MicroStrategy ONE

Changing Color of the Table Header on the Folder Browsing Pages

The contents of a folder can be viewed in a List View  mode. This scenario demonstrates how to change the color of the table header as shown in the screenshot below. This task involves modifying a CSS file that renders the formatting properties for the table.

Before customization:

After customization:

This customization can be accomplished using either of the following methods:

Deploying the plug-in provided with MicroStrategy SDK

MicroStrategy SDK provides a plug-in (ZIP file) that can simply be extracted to thepluginsfolder to view the customization in MicroStrategy Web. The following steps guide you in locating the plug-in and deploying it. 

  1. Access the plug-in: JSP version or ASP .NET version. 

  2. Extract the plug-in to the plugins subfolder inside the MicroStrategy Web installation folder.   

  3. Launch MicroStrategy Web to view the customization.

Using the Web Customization Editor to create a plug-in

MicroStrategy SDK provides a Web Customization Editor that can be used to create a customization plug-in. The following steps guide you in creating the plug-in and deploying it. 

  1. Launch the Web Customization Editor. 

  2. Click on MicroStrategy Web Configuration inside the Application Settings view to expand the hierarchical tree. The expanded list comprises the different settings that can be modified to perform customizations. 

  3. Click on Pages to expand the list of pages used in MicroStrategy Web. 

  4. Click on shared (Shared Reports) to expand the child nodes under it. 

  5. Double-click on CSS to expand the child nodes under it. 

  6. Click on MicroStrategy Web to expand the child nodes under it. 

  7. Click on mstr to expand the list of CSS files used on the Welcome page. 

  8. Click on mstrTheme.css to expand the rules defined within this CSS file. 

  9. Click on .Red .mstrListView thead td to expand the properties defined for this rule. 

  10. Double-click on background to launch the Update CSS Property dialog. 

  11. The value for the background property contains the hexadecimal color code. Update the value of only the hexadecimal color code to #FFCC66. 

  12. Click OK. The updated background property gets added under the .Red .mstrListView thead td rule inside a newly created CSS file "sharedPage.css" under shared (Shared Reports)->CSS->Customizations. 

  13. Launch MicroStrategy Web to view the customization.

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