OBIEE 11g Removing Dashboard Links

Shahed Munir

THe following are the links that needs to go for the dashboard users.
1) Home
2) Catalog
3) New
4) Open

I have found that saw.header.xml file located in C:\bi11gbeta2\Oracle_BI1\bifoundation\web\app\res\b_mozilla\common folder has the following tags :

<resource id="kmsgHeaderHome" />
<resource id="kmsgHeaderNew" />
<resource id="kmsgHeaderOpen" />
<resource id="kmsgHeaderDashboard" />
<resource id="kmsgHeaderCatalogPage" />
<resource id="kmsgHeaderOpenCatalogDialog" />

And saw.header.xml file located in C:\bi11gbeta2\Oracle_BI1\bifoundation\web\msgdb\l_en\messages\uicmsgs folder has the text for the above message tags.
For example :

<WebMessage name="kmsgHeaderHome"><TEXT>Home</TEXT></WebMessage>
<WebMessage name="kmsgHeaderOpenCatalogDialog"><TEXT>Open...</TEXT></WebMessage>

So replacing or modifying above message tags will change the caption on UI -however this cannot be done user or group specific..Once change is done it will be applicable for all users.

Also header.js located in C:\OBIEE11G\Oracle_BI1\bifoundation\web\app\res\b_mozilla folder where the header messages are referenced -this may need to be modified for removing the links (not just tesxt)
Note that you need to restart all services once you make any changes to xml files