How to put a forwarder on BO Login page

[Former Member]

Hello,

We only want our users to login through our customize login page and never through BO default login page. In some cases where session is getting expired, BO sends the user to the BO default login page automatically and this confuses the user.

http://bo.abc.com:8080/PlatformServices/service/app/logon.do?appKind=InfoView.

Is there a way to modify this logon.do page where we can put a forwarder in there that forwards any user coming to this page to our customize login page?

Thanks in advance.

[Former Member]

Hello,

Making changes to Infoview is not supported, so there will be very few people who might know how to do this. You might be able to find the correct page you want to edit by finding the various pages that make up the login page. Any changes you make to any Infoview pages might be overwritten if you apply a patch or service pack. That means you'll need to keep good notes on your edits.

You do have the ability to redirect to a specific page after logging off from Infoview, however I don't know what the behavior will be if the Enterprise session just times out and the log off button isn't actually clicked. To redirect to a specific page see KBase article (KBA) [1281092 - "How to redirect to a specified page after logging off from InfoView?|https://bosap-support.wdf.sap.corp/sap/support/notes/1281092]". You'll probably have to be logged into the [Service Marketplace|http://service.sap.com/support] (SMP) in order to view this article.

If you can't get to the KBA here's the information it covers:

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For BusinessObjects XIR2

Modify the web.xml file for the desktop.war.

1. Under the default Tomcat installation, the web.xml fileis located under:

<Tomcat install>\webapps\businessobjects\enterprise115\desktoplaunch\WEB-INF

2. Search for the following key: url.exit

3. Modify the param-value to contain the page you want to redirect to after logging off from InfoView

Sample excerpt of the web.xml showing the default value for the "url.exit":

<context-param>
     <param-name>url.exit</param-name>
     <param-value>../../default.htm</param-value>
</context-param>

Sample excerpt of the web.xml showing a modified value for the "url.exit":

<context-param>
    <param-name>url.exit</param-name>
    <param-value><a href="http://www.google.com" TARGET="test_blank">http://www.google.com</a></param-value>
</context-param>

Restart Tomcat

For BusinessObjects XI 3.x

Modify the web.xml file for the InfoViewApp

1. Under the default Tomcat installation, the web.xml file is located under:

<Tomcat install>\webapps\InfoViewApp\WEB-INF

2. Search for the following key: url.exit

3. Modify the param-value to contain the page you want to redirect to after logging off from InfoView

Sample excerpt of the web.xml showing the default value for the "url.exit":

<context-param>
    <param-name>url.exit</param-name>
    <param-value/>
</context-param>

Sample excerpt of the web.xml showing a modified value for the "url.exit":

<context-param>
    <param-name>url.exit</param-name>
    <param-value><a href="http://www.google.com" TARGET="test_blank">http://www.google.com</a></param-value>
</context-param>

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Sincerely,

Dan Kelleher