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18-8 System Administrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

18.3.2.1 Configuring Fonts for Graphs

You can do one or both of the following tasks to configuring fonts for graphs: ■ Set the embed fonts element ■ Deliver font files for printing

18.3.2.1.1 Setting the Embed Fonts Element By default, graphs rely on users to have the

appropriate device fonts installed on their system to display multilingual text in the graphs. When users enable rotation on O1 axis labels, the graphs can look unattractive at certain angles. The labels appear obscured without any anti-aliasing. You can set the EmbedFonts element to True to specify the use of embedded fonts instead of device fonts, which resolves this display issue. Be aware that the use of embedded fonts can cause a loss of fidelity. Whenever end users select fonts, they see the Oracle-licensed Albany WT plain fonts by default. Because the graphing engine does not provide embedded fonts for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean locales, users with those locales might obtain unattractive results for label rotation.

18.3.2.1.2 Delivering Font Files for Printing If you plan to print graphs in bi-directional

languages to PDF or graphs in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean to PNG images, then you must deliver required font files .TTF as follows: ■ To print graphs in bi-directional languages to PDF, you must deliver the Albany family of fonts to this Java Run-time Environment JRE directory: FlashCodeBase Specifies the name of the source for downloading the Flash plug-in. The default download source for the Flash plug-in is the vendors Web site. In some organizations, users are instructed to download the latest Flash software from a corporate location instead of the vendors Web site. You can modify the setting to point to another location that holds the Flash code base. Then, when users view a graph and a newer version of the Flash software is available on the corporate server, they can be prompted to download the newer version. vendors Web site FlashCLSID Specifies a custom global identifier clsid property for downloading Flash. After modifying the Flash download directory using the FlashCodeBase element, you can enable a download prompt by creating a new classID for the Flash ActiveX control to add a custom global identifier property. You can obtain the current global identifier property from any computer where Oracle BI Presentation Services graphing is being used. The global identifier property used by Oracle Business Intelligence is D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000. The custom global identifier property must contain the same number of characters and dashes as the global identifier used in the default Flash ActiveX control. You should test flash graphs independent of Oracle Business Intelligence to ensure that they function with the custom global identifier property. NA Table 18–2 Cont. Common Elements for Manually Configuring Graphs and Gauges Element Description Default Value Configuring and Managing Analyses and Dashboards 18-9 JAVA.HOMElibfonts where JAVA.HOME is the directory name as specified by the java.home system property. ■ To print graphs in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean to PNG images, you must deliver the font file that contains all the needed glyphs to this JRE directory: libfontsfallback For more information about font configuration files, see your Java documentation.

18.3.3 Manually Changing Alternating Bar Color

Both tables and pivot tables can have colored bars on alternating lines. Such formatting is sometimes called green bar styling, and the default color for these alternating bars is green. For pivot tables, content designers can control formatting features when editing tables and pivot tables, including whether alternating bar color is enabled. As the administrator, you can change the default color for alternating bars, by editing a style configuration file. To change the color, edit the views.css file in the b_mozilla_4 folder, as shown in the following list. Change the six-digit hexadecimal color value to a new color value. ■ Tables use the CSS selector: .ECell for even-numbered rows .OCell for odd-numbered rows. ■ Pivot tables use the CSS selector: .PTE for odd-numbered rows The option for enabling the alternating bars is in the Edit View dialog and is labeled Enable alternating row green bar styling . If you change the color of the bars, then you might also want to change the label to indicate the color that you have set. To change the label in the dialog for both the table and pivot table, open the tableviewmessages.xml file and find this entry: WebMessageName = kmsgTableViewEnableGreenbarReporting Copy the entry and the text line under it to a custom messages file in the custom messages folder, and change the text line appropriately. For example: WebMessageName = kmsgTableViewEnableGreenbarReporting TEXTEnable alternating row RED bar stylingTEXT

18.4 Manually Changing Presentation Settings

You can configure settings that change the display of dashboards and presentation settings, as described in the following sections: ■ Section 18.4.1, Manually Changing Presentation Setting Defaults ■ Section 18.4.2, Configuring Links to Dashboard Pages ■ Section 18.4.3, Configuring an Alternate Toolbar for Oracle BI Publisher ■ Section 18.4.4, Modifying the Table of Contents for PDF Versions of Briefing Books