How To Override Custom Theme In Open UI Without Deleting The User Preferences Files Of All Users

Scenario :  We have an Open UI Siebel 8.1.1.11 Patchset 9 application. Currently the first phase of the project is live in production.We had used Override Default Theme (Doc ID 1600754.1) to override the default theme and launch the application in our custom theme.Users have been using the application with the custom theme since some months now.For the...

How to add a new theme in version 8.1.1.11 Open UI

Here are the suggested steps to add a new theme in Siebel client running in Open UI mode. 1. Create the custom css file and place it in \public\enu\files. For example - "theme-blue-tab.css" with the following contents:#s_sctrl #s_sctrl_tabScreen.ui-tabs ul.ui-tabs-nav li a {color: white;font-size: 14px;font-weight: normal;height: 24px;font-style: italic;background: #99CCFF;background: url(data:image/svg+xml;base64,PD94bWwgdmVyc2lvbj0iMS4wIiA/Pgo8c3ZnIHhtbG5zPSJod…EiIGhlaWdodD0iMSIgZmlsbD0idXJsKCNncmFkLXVjZ2ctZ2VuZXJhdGVkKSIgLz4KPC9zdmc+);background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,#99CCFF 0,#dfdfdf 100%);background: -webkit-gradient(linear,left top,left bottom,color-stop(0%,#99CCFF),color-stop(100%,#dfdfdf));background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,steelblue 0,steelblue 100%);background:...

How to Set up EBCs to work with LDAP or ADSI Authentication

A couple of key points here: 1. This assumes that all users connect to the external datasource using the same userid / password. If they connect using their own specific credentials it is still possible to make this work but requires a lot more work and setup at the LDAP directory server side. 2. Please make sure that...