Customizing the Appearance of IBM Cognos BI
You can customize the IBM® Cognos® Business
Intelligence interface to suit the needs of an international customer
or a particular reseller. IBM Cognos BI includes a selection
of predefined styles that you can use to globally change the look
of the graphical user interface without affecting product functionality.
Alternatively, you can create a custom style based on one of the predefined
styles. You can make changes to the colors, fonts, images, and overall
appearance of one or more IBM Cognos components.
Styles can be customized by
- using the style management utility
The style management utility automates the creation of custom styles. This is the preferred method for customizing the appearance of IBM Cognos components.
- manually creating a custom style and changing the associated style sheets (.css files). Using this method, you can customize style sheets for Cognos Connection, Report Studio, Query Studio , IBM Cognos Viewer, and prompt pages.
For more information about IBM Cognos customizations, see Customizing the Functionality of IBM Cognos Software.