on Sep 17, 2008Is there any way to globally configure graphic report settings. Say you have a company branding program that includes corporate logo, color pallates, fonts, etc. for internal and external correspondence, what have you. Since these envision reports are getting sent all accross the company and baked into leadership metrics reports we'd kinda like to make them all standard and comply to a high level "template" if you will.
Is there a way to globally configure all my graphical reports to use a specific logo image up in the corner, or stay within a specific set of colors off a custom pallate, or use a specific font, font size, etc, and then apply that to all graphic reports? Ok, maybe not the pre-canned ones that come out of the box, I know those can't be modified, but what about everything else?
Is there any good way to pull this off, or am I going to wear out my mouse clicking progressively through the Java GUI on several hundred reports?
Unfortunately, there's no GUI feature to mass-edit custom report templates.
You can, however, hand edit the defualt template files (used when you create a new graph) on the appliance OS.
Warning: This procedure is not formally supported, so if you break something, you are on your own. Backup any files before you start editing them.
The default templates are stored in .cdl files in the following location on the ES or A-SRV appliance:
E:\nic\3700\<servername>\webapps\pi\report\tempates
These are just text files that set the default parameters for new graphs. There is no documentation for the settings within, so you'll have to make comparisons to the Modify Graph Appearance GUI to get the field names right.
When you're done, I think it is safe to say you'd need to restart the NIC Web Server Service - you may need to restart others as well, but I can't say for certain.
I hope that helps...