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Customize banners in Process Portal
Process Portal has a banner at the top of the window that contains tabs for navigating to the work and dashboards pages, and links to user preferences, help documentation, and logout. In IBM BPM Advanced, a link is also provided to link to business spaces.
You can customize a banner in many ways, including these common changes:
- Modify the banner appearance.
- Remove elements from the banner.
- Modify the location, appearance, or content of the Help link.
- Modify the Logout link to load a custom web page or run custom code when a user logs out.
To customize the appearance and function in the banner, edit one or both of the following files.
Banner customization files File name Description index.jsp This file contains the HTML used to create the banner area. If you plan to make structural changes to the banner (for example, adding or removing sections), you need to edit this file.
theme.css The style sheet that controls the appearance of the banner. If you plan to make style changes to the banner (for example, modifying icons, colors, or font, or changing the dimensions of various areas of the banner), you need to edit this file using a WebDav client. After modifying the file, you need to upload it to the server using the WebDav client.
- Create custom Process Portal banner files
The index.jsp file and the theme.css files control the appearance of the Process Portal banner. Before you customize the banner, create your own copy of the existing theme files.- Hiding banner elements in Process Portal
You can hide some or all of the Process Portal banner content without having to modify the entire theme.
- Customize the Help link in Process Portal
By default, the link to access the online help for Process Portal appears at the upper right of the banner and opens the Process Portal documentation delivered with the product. You can modify this link so that it opens different documentation instead.- Create custom logout behavior for Process Portal
You can customize the behavior of the Logout link in the banner of a Process Portal to run custom code when a user logs out.