How to add custom css in Cognos? - css

I have created some cognos reports and i want to override the global design in some of them (prompt pages and report pages).
I would like to know if it is possible to load different custom css files per report.
If this is not possible then how can i load a global custom css together with the global cognos css?

Add an HTML Item with something like
<link href="http://your.server.com/css/reports.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
in the header of your report.

There are a lot of different ways to style reports via CSS. The accepted answer works but it may not be the most friendly for current and future developers. You can modify the existing global styles pretty easily, either via the existing classes or by adding your own. If you are looking at a per-report scenario, you can create local classes within the report itself rather than juggling multiple CSSs on the server.
I wrote a blog post on this awhile back with more detail (404, blog was removed).

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Load resources in gadgets in Jira

I've made an Add-on which is a custom field.
The style of the text in the field changes depending on the properties of an issue.
I check which style should the text have in the .java file and I pass the html class in a variable called $indicator to the velocity template:
#if( ${value} )
<span class="$indicator">${value}</span>
#end
It works perfect everywhere but in gadgets. When I add this field to a table showing issues in a dashboard, the html code is correct, but it doesn't find the css resource. This is because gadgets are inside an iframe.
How can I make the iframe have a reference to the stylesheet?
You did not say exactly which gadget you were using, but try adding the following context within your <web-resource> module:
<context>jira.webresources:issue-table</context>
The above should work for at least Assigned to Me, Filter Results, In Progress, Voted, and Watched in JIRA 6.1+.
If that does not work, you might also try:
<context>com.atlassian.jira.gadgets:common-lite</context>
If that general context doesn't work, you can look for which exact contexts are #requireContext'ed by the specific gadget you are trying to use, and then make sure that your web-resource is listed in that context. You can figure this out by looking at the gadget's XML and then searching for the #requireContext. (You can find the gadget XMLs inside $JIRA_DATA/plugins/.osgi-plugins/transformed-plugins/jira-gadgets-plugin-*.jar)
Starting with JIRA 7 the Answer of Scott Dudley is no longer working. #requireContext was replaced with a #requireResource within the Atlassian sources of this gadget.
As it affects our plugin, I created a Improvement Request to make that possible again

Creating custom layouts for Images in page content TYPO3 6

Typo3 provides option to add multiple images to a page content, but all the images are wrapped under some default <div> tags. I want these images to be wrapped under <ul> and <li> tags instead and giving my own custom CSS ids and classes to it.
There are not many resources on TYPO3 for me to approach this issue. Can TYPO3 allow to use custom tags for the page content elements?
UPDATE
From Jost's answer was able to get my images displayed, but how do I split the image details?
My each image will have title, alt-text, image-path and image-link. Now, using TypoScript how do I retrieve this, because each details has to go in separate tags.
Check the TypoScript object browser. There you will find the object tt_content, which contains the rendering definitions for content elements. The rendering definition for images is found at tt_content.image.20, for example
tt_content.image.20.imageStdWrap.dataWrap = <div class="csc-textpic-imagewrap" style="width:{register:totalwidth}px;"> | </div>
The default definitions given there are usually provided by the static TypoScript of CSS-styled-content. You can overwrite them in your own TS, but when updating to a newer TYPO3-version, the default template may change, which could result in additional wrappers.
Update
Most content rendering in TYPO3 is defined in the TypoScript object tt_content. You can browse all TS-objects that will be used on a page by selecting the "Template" module and the page in question, and then choose "TypoScript Object Browser" in the selectbox at the top of the window. To understand what that stuff means, knowledge of TypoScript is necessary (Tutorial, Reference).
You can add your own TypoScript, which may override existing settings. You can do that in the Template-module too, but usually this is done by creating a file containing the script somewhere in the fileadmin folder and including it from the Template module.
The above enables you to edit the markup of the page. (Additional) CSS is usually defined in external files, that are included by a PAGE object (see the reference about that).
This post is a bit older but I want to add the following:
If you want to understand how the different content elements are wrapped, you may have a look into the css_styled_content extension. I assume that you have included the "Static Template (from extension)" in your main Typoscript template.
You can find the setup.txt here:
typo3/sysext/css_styled_content/static/setup.txt
There you´ll find the line Jost mentioned in line 860 (TYPO3 version 6.1), for example. And of course a lot of other definitions, too.
But check to read the documentation and tutorials on typo3.org.
HTH
merzilla

How do I apply styling to my custom intro page?

I made my own welcome intro page using org.eclipse.ui.intro and I'm able to show my welcome extended with other contributors.
Now I'd like to decore my welcome with some css, and I have two question:
1) How can I apply predefined eclipse css (i.e Slate) to my page? I've already tried putting org.eclipse.ui.intro/INTRO_THEME = org.eclipse.ui.intro.universal.slate in plugin_customizazion.ini without success
2) there's a way to extend css to contributors without giving them the css file??? I mean there a way for contributors to use my own css if it is only inside my plugin (or eclipse plugin if i will be able to use "slate" style?)
Eclipse SDK Help
The only way to select a theme is via the preference org.eclipse.ui.intro/INTRO_THEME in plugin_customization.ini.
Theme-enabled intro implementation must make all the references to style and presentation resources using the $theme$ substitution variable. Absolute paths for images, pages, styles, etc. will be computed by resolving the substitution variable using the path of the currently active theme.
See Intro Content XML Format as well.
To answer the second question, if you define an intro theme which include your css file, other plugins will be able to use it for sure.
Cheers,
Max
Ok, now I've learned more about themes, but I think I have some problem with path.
I've defined my own theme, css and graphics, so I extend theme by configExtension. But when I load my application the welcome page doesn't load css neither images. I've also defined org.eclipse.ui.intro/INTRO_THEME in plugin_customization.ini.
I have a structure similar to slate template like this
my.plugin.name
|_resources
|_intro
|_graphics
|_html
in graphics there are all images definitions whlile in html there are css
then in intro I have my root.xhtml (referenced by intro.xml)
with this css reference
<link rel="stylesheet" href="$themes$/html/root-ie.css" type="text/css" charset="utf-8" />
finally I've defined configExtension with theme
<extension
point="org.eclipse.ui.intro.configExtension">
<theme
default="true"
id="my.plugin.name.themes.themename"
name="%theme.name.themenam"
path="/resources/intro"
scalable="true">
I think maybe the problem is with the path, I've also tried with path="resources/intro"
path="/resources/intro/" and path="resources/intro/" withous success
could someone post a simple but complete working sample please?

User generated custom css

Hey, anyone have any idea what the best way to allow users to save custom css would be? Specifically, there are about 4 color values that I would like to allow a user to choose and these colors would be used to create a custom theme for the user. I'm thinking save values in the database and then using dom:loaded with prototype to set the custom style values but I'm wondering if theres a faster way? Like dynamically creating css files or something?
and then using dom:loaded with prototype
Awww, don't do that! That won't work when JavaScript is turned off.
Approach 1: Static stylesheet, dynamic values in document head
For the sake of not having to work with a dynamically created style sheet, have a separate, static CSS file with all the definitions that won't change.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/static.css" type="text/css">
<!-- Or whatever you name it -->
All the definitions that will change, you could put into the head of the HTML document, fetching the user-changeable values from a database.
<style type="text/css">
.classname { font-size: (fontsize); } <-- Insert dynamic value here
.classname { color: (color); } <-- Insert dynamic value here
....
<style>
that way, the majority of the CSS stays in static, cacheable files, while the dynamic part won't cause another HTTP request.
Approach 2: Dynamic stylesheet
If you have a lot of dynamically changing values, put the entire style sheet into a script file and output it, replacing placeholders with the values from the database.
The downside to this is that to force the browser to reload the style sheet on changes, you'll have to work with a version approach stylesheet.css?version=400 which is pretty complex to do, but can sometimes be more desirable than littering the head section with CSS.
You decide which approach suits your situation better. I find myself choosing the first one most often.
I would save the 4 values in the database and then create a css file from those values. You would want to make sure and cache the created css file for each user so you don't have to dynamically create it each page view.
Creating a custom css file adds another request the browser has to make so you would need to make sure your setting up the headers correctly to cache it. If the user does change their settings you would need do something to ensure the browser immediately stops cashing the old css file and loads the new file. One way to do this is to change the url of the css file.
Example:
/usercustom.css?version=(last saved date hash)
Instead I would use your first approach and create a JSON array that you inject into the page and then you use your javascript framework to load and use the array to style the page.
You could also store the color values in the cookie from the server and use and or write to them on the client.
I think that best way is to save it to Db, because you don't want to allow user to mess with your website. At least if some pages are public.
And I personally think that answers like "do it without JavaScript" is nothing but old school BS... Did they tried to turn of JavaScript today? I don't think so... And by this paragraph I don't mean that you have to do it using JavaScript. Do it in a way that suits your needs 🤔
Wish you nice Day

How do I use Google Analytics with Sitecore 6?

I know that I need to add the tracking code snippet at the bottom of all my pages, but is there a central location to do this?
Or do I need to add this tracking code to all of my templates?
I guess that I could wrap the snippet in a user control, or external .js file, and reference it on each page, but is there a global footer somewhere? The site I'm working on has about 30-40 layouts, and adding it to each one would be a pain!
Thanks in advance!
Actually, the role of a Sitecore layout is exactly this; to act as a global file that all individual page templates "derive" from.
Normally you'd stick the analytics code into the master layout, and use Sitecore sublayout/placeholder techniques to construct the various page templates you need. You would not normally need more than perhaps one or two layouts for any device you are serving content to. And I guess for most sites, the only device in use is regular web content delivery.
That being said, what you could do, is have all the layouts inherit their codebase from a common base class (inheriting from Page), and inject the google code centrally from here. Would still require you to go through all layout files however.
I have not tried the module, I think that is codebehind version. I have made this in XSLT, its pretty fast and easy to make. I have footer.xslt where I put the code that simply checks if page you are standing on uses template that I want to index and does not belong to page names that I want to exclude. Then I have an item with a custom template for Google Analytics with following memo fields.
IncludeTemplates -field contains list of templates that I want to include for analytics :
ExcludeItemsNames -field for excluding pages by item name
contains($includeTemplates, concat('|',./#template,'|')) and not(contains($excludeItemNames, concat('|',./#template,'|')))
Remember #key and #template is always in small letters
If you run many domains don't forget to add pageTracker._setDomainName("www.example.com"); in analytics script so you can separate sub-domains etc. if they use same footer.xslt
Normally we consider the actual Google code as content. Within Sitecore we normally have a settings folder, something like /sitecore/content/settings. This exists outside the root of the site. Beneath this have a settings item with a plain multi-line text field, I think the field type is memo or something similar.
Afterwards create an XSLT that renders out the content of this settings item. Something like (assuming the field is called value in the setting item):
<xsl:value-of select="sc:fld('Value','/sitecore/content/settings/footerJavaScript')" />
You may or may not need to set the disable-output-escaping attribute.
Then on the aspx page that your pages use as the template add a control that looks at the xslt rendering:
<sc:XslFile runat="server" Path="/xsl/footerJavaScript" />
The reason that we normally keep the javascript as content is this allows the client to change the analytics code without having to contact us.

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