Introduction
The topic for discussion appears self-explanatory but in case it doesn’t let-me try and help all the readers. Fusion Applications has a specific look and feel (skin color, background/foreground color of its page, logo on first page).
This article will try to explore and showcase a scenario where we could try to change some of the seeded attributes and at this point it makes sense to understand the advantages/need/use for making such changes and why should we rather spend our time and energy on making some changes. Some of the salient points justifying such a move are:
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Company Specific Logo on Welcome Page
Each company prefers to have its own logo on the Welcome Page instead of the seeded one delivered by Oracle. While on one hand it does helps individuals to identify the Environment that they are working on the other hand it also does a bit on the advertisement part. No harm displaying the company logo on the ERP application being used by the company.
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Adhering to a specific color
While Oracle has tried its level best to present the application in the most pleasant way carefully choosing the background and foreground colors, some companies might decide to have a different shade on their environment. The application provides a flexibility and enables users to do so.
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Uniquely identify a particular instance (POD / Fusion Environment
oFor a typical organization using Fusion Applications or for that matter any other ERP system there are multiple environments (Also referred as Instances / Pods) like Development, UAT, SIT, Pre-Production and Production.
Since all of the above looks similar at times it becomes difficult to identify the Environment on which a specific task is being carried out. A change supposed to be done on Development Environment may be performed on UAT or vice versa and this might cause issues.
One smart way of avoiding such mistakes would be using smart color coding scheme on the environment (maybe as displayed below):
There could be many more reasons but for now we would restrict ourselves to the above three and continue with our example.
Worked Example
In this example we would change the logo from the seeded one (VISION as displayed in the first screenshot) and replace the same with a new logo (customer specific one).
As a first step we have to login to the application (specific Fusion POD where we intend to make the changes) and click on the ‘Appearance’ (under Tools menu) hyper-link
This takes us to the following screen:
Once you click on the Edit button you would be asked to activate a sandbox (this feature ensures that all the changes are made in a specific customized area ensuring that in case something does not go well the changes can be reverted)
We already have a sandbox “ApplcoreLongSB_01” and we will use the same here instead of creating new sandbox.
Once the same is set as Active you would notice the same displayed on the topmost region (snap-shot below)
We need to click on the ‘Update’ Button and point to our logo/image (in this example we have used an image which is stored in a local machine but this could very well be an online image too).
Next we should click on ‘Ok’ button followed by the ‘Apply’ button.
This change will appear on all the pages and the same could be verified too by navigating to different Fusion pages. In this example, we will verify the same on the homepage to get a confirmation.
One important point to note here is that all these changes did not require a downtime and was on the go which is a big plus and very good feature to have.
We are on the homepage now and it would be hard to miss that the logo has been changed to the new one
Although we have already made the change in the logo the change is too small and so to make the change simple and clearly visible let-us try to change the background color too. We would change the same to ED6A24 (for this example).
And once we click on ‘Apply’ we are able to view the change:
And finally a look at Homepage:
So we have now seen how easily we are able to change the appearance of a Fusion Enviornment and we may change the skin, theme and various colors available. Each one of the same can be tried and verified by using the same process and hopefully you all would be able to get desired results.
That’s it for now. We will be back for a new and interesting feature of Fusion Applications in a new article very soon, till then you all keep experimenting and playing around with new features and do share your knowledge in case you come up with some interesting revelations.
Good Bye!!
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