IBM Cognos Connection and IBM Cognos Administration

This section describes the process for creating and deploying a custom style for Cognos® Connection and Cognos Administration using the style management utility.

Create a custom style.
You create a custom style based on one of the predefined styles provided with IBM® Cognos. For more information, see Predefined Styles.
Modify the style.xml file.
Changes you make to style.xml affect the appearance of Cognos Connection and Cognos Administration only. They do not apply to other IBM Cognos components.

Style.xml is created in the c10_location/temp directory when you create a new style. You can edit style.xml in an XML or text editor to use custom colors and images. For more information, see Modifying the XML Style File.
Generate the custom style.
The style management utility creates a folder for the new style on the local machine in the c10_location\temp folder. The folder contains all the files needed for the new style, including the cascading style sheets and images. For step-by-step information about how to create a custom style, see Creating a Custom Style.

For IBM Cognos Connection and IBM Cognos Administration, you are not required to make manual changes to the .css files for changes related to colors and certain graphics. These style changes are updated dynamically by the style management utility and are upgradeable. Style changes to fonts and layout properties do require manual changes to the .css files. For more information, see Modifying the Appearance of IBM Cognos Connection.
Deploy the style.
To deploy a style, first you zip the folder that contains the new style and the associated .css and image files. Then, you extract the zip file to the c10_location\webcontent\skins directory on all gateway locations.
Publish the custom style.
Publishing a custom style makes it available to your users. When you publish a style, it appears in the list of styles in IBM Cognos Connection.