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Changing the ‘Cognos Connection’ text in upper left to custom text

Solution:

  1. Navigate to \crn8\templates\ps\portal folder and open system.xml file (I would back it up before you modify it).
  2. Search on OEM, and find the section.
  3. Highlight the following block of code
<!-- Custom OEM headers -->
<param name="OEM">

                                   

Specify custom Cognos Connection / Cognos Viewer left side header here in the form of XHTML snippets.  Custom headers can be style-specific.
 

Example:

 
<customHeader showContext="true" contextDelimiter=" - ">                                 

   <style styleFolderName="corporate">

      <table style="background-color:#ffffff">

         <tr>

         <td><img src="../skins/corporate/branding/my_logo.gif"/></td>

         <td class="headerTitle" style="padding-right:2px;white-space:nowrap"> My company </td>

         </tr>

      </table>                                              

   </style>

   <style styleFolderName="classic">

      <table style="background-color:#cccccc">

         <tr>

         <td><img src="../skins/classic/branding/my_logo.gif"/></td>

         <td class="headerTitle" style="padding-right:2px;white-space:nowrap"> My company </td> 

         </tr>

      </table>                                              

    </style>
</customHeader>

   -->

</param>

 

Replace it with this code:

 

<customHeader showContext="true" contextDelimiter=" - ">                                 

   <style styleFolderName="corporate">

      <table style="background-color:#ffffff">

         <tr>

         <td><img src="../skins/corporate/branding/icon_portal.gif"/></td>

         <td class="headerTitle" style="padding-right:2px;white-space:nowrap"> My company </td>

         </tr>

      </table>                                              

   </style>

   <style styleFolderName="classic">

      <table style="background-color:#cccccc">

         <tr>

         <td><img src="../skins/classic/branding/icon_portal.gif"/></td>

         <td class="headerTitle" style="padding-right:2px;white-space:nowrap"> My company </td>

         </tr>

      </table>                                              

   </style>

 

   <style styleFolderName="contemporary">

      <table style="background-color:#cccccc">

         <tr>

         <td><img src="../skins/contemporary/branding/icon_portal.gif"/></td>

         <td class="headerTitle" style="padding-right:2px;white-space:nowrap"> My company </td>

         </tr>

      </table>                                              

   </style>

 

   <style styleFolderName="modern">

      <table style="background-color:#cccccc">

         <tr>

         <td><img src="../skins/modern/branding/icon_portal.gif"/></td>

         <td class="headerTitle" style="padding-right:2px;white-space:nowrap"> My company </td>

         </tr>

      </table>                                              

   </style>

 

   <style styleFolderName="presentation">

      <table style="background-color:#cccccc">

         <tr>

         <td><img src="../skins/presentation/branding/icon_portal.gif"/></td>

         <td class="headerTitle" style="padding-right:2px;white-space:nowrap"> My company </td>

         </tr>

      </table>                                              

   </style>

  

</customHeader>

" " NOTE: Replace the BI Portal text in all places with the text you want to display. 

  1. Restart service.
  2. Login and you should see the new text.

Source: Cognos Knowledgebase article 1016125.2