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HugoHermans12-Amethyst
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February 28, 2014
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Windchill 10.1 - Banner -

  • February 28, 2014
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Hey Preeti,

I'm triggered by your screenshot:

- Could you share the way you tweaked the banner for your testserver?

- For change objects, we don't succeed to add the object name next to the object number, similar to WTDocuments. Did you?

- But mostly, your change object is an ECR, but the icon and the name points to an ECN. Isn't that very confusing?

Regards, Hugo.

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ddemay1-Visitor
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February 28, 2014
All - I had posted a solution for this last year, but the code was not complete. I had a few companies request it. I’ll post an update on a separate thread in a moment.



To get a solution like what Preeti showed, you can use the OOTB information already posted and then change the background colors of the banner/header by replacing the OOTB files used to render the gradient blue to green with images of same dimensions but use a solid color. You could also get more savvy with coding the HTML, but that is bit much.



The solution I am working on, mimics the banner behavior in 9.1 such that you get the banner capabilities without as much effort. I want to file an enhancement request with PTC and get a few of the PTC folks monitoring this, to get the code dumped into a later MOR of Windchill 10.2 or 10.3 (X-26) that is in development now.



I’ll describe it more in separate post. For those running 10.1 M040, I have a stable version that does not collapse yet ready to distribute.







Here it appears once collapsed (still working out final bugs)…there will be a timer based auto collapse option.
















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PreetiGupta15-Moonstone
15-Moonstone
February 28, 2014
We also explored this option(putting header row) just like we had done in 9.1. It shifted whole Windchill frame to the bottom. So we decided to do this way. We could not put too many things in 10.1 as we had it in 9.1 for example - the Alcon Specific Help link and Email link etc. I like the David’s idea of auto collapse. But please put(PTC) it as out of the box option ☺

Coming back to banner. We do the following things:


1) Change background_gradient.png in codebase\netmarkets\themes\windchill\Header to the different color.

2) Begin_custom.jspf : we rehost server very frequently so the tooltip also helps. I am attaching this file.



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3) We also change the l_ptc_splash.gif to identify Disaster Recovery/Test/Validation systems etc. Location : Windchill\codebase\wtcore\images\bblks

Link to Alcon help system is buried in here now, which often times is not obvious until we tell users. I still like to put the help system link on the top. In our testing we found that in the workspace, the embedded browser got squished and all the texts were jumbled up.

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Thanks,
Preeti
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vmcdaniel1-Visitor
1-Visitor
June 24, 2015

I'm working on setting this up but am having trouble getting the new images to appear in web browser.

I change/replace \codebase\wtcore\images\bblks\l_ptc_splash.gif (for initial splash) and \codebase\netmarkets\images\22A_windchill_logo_x20.png (for header logo)

I clear tomcat and restart, and clear web browser cache, but they do not update.

Is there another cached location? or step I'm missing?

Thanks!

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