Storage of Stylesheets and Symbols 

Use

You can use stylesheets in your Web templates that exchange symbols or supplement the Web template with other MIME objects such as images, symbols or logos.

Prerequisites

You have adjusted the stylesheet or symbols to your settings.

Features

You find stylesheets and other MIME objects in the MIME Repository on the Web Application Server. To do this, from the SAP Easy Access Menu of the Business Information Warehouse, choose SAP Menu  ® Business Explorer  ® MIME Repository (transaction SE80). In the MIME Repository, you can also store your own stylesheets, symbols and other MIME objects.

Note that the cache of the SAP Web Application Server has to be deleted when you change stylesheet or MIME objects. To do this, in your BW system, start the transaction ICM monitor (transaction code SMICM) and delete the cache using the menu command Goto ® HTTP Server Cache ®Invalidate ®Globally in the System.

Storing Your Own Stylesheets

The standard stylesheets can be found in the MIME Repository (see above) under SAP ® BW ® BEX ® Stylesheets und SAP ® BW ® BCT ® Stylesheets. You can also select these stylesheets in the Web Application Designer. To change your stylesheets proceed as follows:

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       1.      Copy a stylesheet as a template to your computer. To do this, select the stylesheet, and with the secondary mouse button choose Export ® As a Copy.

       2.      Edit the stylesheet in an editor.

       3.      Store the changed stylesheet under SAP ® BW ® Customer  ®  Stylesheets by selecting the Stylesheets folder and, using the right mouse button, choosing Import  ®  MIME Object. Choose a name for the stylesheet.

For each theme (that is, color specifications) in the MIME Repository, there is a stylesheet without a suffix and 4 stylesheets with the suffix _ie5 (for Internet Explorer 5), _ie6 (for Internet Explorer 6), _n6x (for Netscape Navigator 6.x) and _n7x (for Netscape Navigator 7.x). These stylesheets are browser optimized and are included in the associated browser when a Web application is started. If there is no stylesheet available with the corresponding suffix, the stylesheet is embedded without the suffix.

If there is a stylesheet with the ending _n6x, this is used if you start the Web application in Netscape Navigator 6.x.

This is only relevant for changed stylesheets if you are using several types of browser. You can optimize the stylesheet for each browser. If you are only using one type of browser, optimize the stylesheet without the suffix for this browser. To do this, use the stylesheet with the browser-specific suffix as a template.

Storing Changed Symbols

If you change symbols that are used by default in the Web application, proceed as follows:

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       1.      Delete the relevant symbol in SAP ® BW ® BEx ®   Icons by selecting the symbol and choosing Delete with the right mouse button.

       2.      Save your new symbol under the same name as the original symbol by selecting the Icons folder and choosing Import ® MIME Object from the context menu.

Storing Your Own MIME Objects (For Example, Images and Symbols)

To include your own images and symbols in your Web application, your have to store them in the MIME Repository. To do this, proceed as follows:

·        In general, you can store your MIME objects anywhere under SAP ® BW.

-         You insert MIME objects by selecting a folder and choosing with the right mouse button Import ® MIME Object.

-         You create new folders by selecting a folder and choosing with the right mouse button Create ® Folder.

·        In order to display your images in the Web Application Designer, save them under SAP ® BW ® Customer ® Images. You can include images that you save in this folder in the Web Application Designer without having to manually edit the HTML.

Including Symbols in the Web Template

·        If you have stored your images under SAP ® BW ® Customer ®  Images, you do not have to do anything else after you have included them in your Web template.

·        If your image is in another folder under SAP ® BW you have to maintain the path manually in the HTML.

If the image Picture1.gif is in SAP ® BW ® Customer  ®  MyPictures you have to access the image under the relative URL /sap/bw/Mime/Customer/MyPictures/Picture1.gif.

·        If you want to use the image as a background screen, you have to access it through the stylesheet using the stylesheet specification background image in a stylesheet class. You enter the relative path for storing the stylesheet.

You want to give a specific area a background. You have stored the picture for this under SAP ® BW ® Customer  ® MyPictures. You stylesheet is saved under SAP ® BW ® Customer  ® Stylesheets. You add the specification background-image_url (..\MyPictures\Picture.gif) to the affected class in the stylesheet.