Add your corporate logo to Cognos Connection

You can customize the Cognos Connection interface for Cognos 8 to resemble your corporate branding.  In order to do this you must modify the system.xml file and place your logo within your Cognos install path location.

 

1. Start off by placing the image in …Cognos 8 install path/c8\webcontent\skins\companyXYZ\branding\
2. Back up the system.xml file!  Open the file using Notepad or an XML editor.
3. Find the element tag “<!—Custom OEM headers -->”.
4. Uncomment the xml element tag and then add the following section:

<!-- Custom OEM headers -->

<param name="OEM">

<!--Specify custom Cognos Connection / Cognos Viewer left side header here in the form of XHTML snippets.

          -->

<customHeader showContext="false" contextDelimiter="">

<style styleFolderName="companyXYZstyle">

<table style="background-color:#2d5d3d">

<tr>

<td><img src="../skins/companyXYZstyle/branding/XYZLogo.gif"/></td>

</tr>

</table>

</style>

<style styleFolderName="corporate">

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

<tr>

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

<td class="headerTitle" style="padding-right:2px;whitespace:nowrap"> Company XYZ </td>

</tr>

</table>

</style>

<style styleFolderName="classic">

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

<tr>

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

<td class="headerTitle" style="padding-right:2px;whitespace:nowrap"> Company XYZ </td>

</tr>

</table>

</style>

</customHeader>

</param>

 

5. Restart the Cognos 8 service for these changes to take affect.