Rebranding BMC Digital Workplace
As a BMC Digital Workplace administrator, you can rebrand BMC Digital Workplace for your end users. To suit your company's branding, you can change the default logo, background color, and colors for the primary, secondary, and active elements. If you have configured multitenancy to restrict access for BMC Digital Workplace users to a specific company, you can apply rebranding that is unique to each individual tenant. The rebranding tool, available from the BMC Digital Workplace Admin console, is intuitive and easy to use.
If you are upgrading from a previous version
Since version 19.02, rebranding is performed using the Admin console, and eliminates the need for manually writing the CSS code. All rebranding changes you made in version 19.02 will be migrated to the current version.
However, if you upgrade from a version prior to 19.02, you will have to perform the steps described in this topic, since your existing settings will not be migrated.
Before you begin
If you have a multitenant environment and are using the BMC Digital Workplace login, configure multitenancy.
If you are using an alternative sign-on process (such as Remedy Single Sign-On ), do not rebrand the BMC Digital Workplace login page.
To create image files for rebranding
Create the following graphics files required for rebranding each tenant:
- Background image for login page
- Main page header logo
- Mobile logo
The following table provides guidelines for creating the required images. Create and save the files to a location that you can access from the server.
Graphic | Description |
---|---|
Background image for the login page | You can upload only one login page image. For faster loading, use lower resolution images. Example of the background image for the login page image with white background: |
Product logo | The logo file that you will upload must meet the following requirements:
Recommendation: Transparent PNG, 48H x 80W em |
Mobile logo | The logo file that you will upload must meet the following requirements:
Recommendation: Transparent PNG, 512H x 512W em |
To rebrand BMC Digital Workplace
You can upload the logo and background images, and choose colors for various elements in the user interface. According to your selections, the BMC Digital Workplace rebranding automatically applies changes to the user interface.
In addition to the steps below, the following video (6:43) describes how to rebrand BMC Digital Workplace:
- Log in to the BMC Digital Workplace Admin console, and select Configuration > Branding .
Rebrand the required elements as described in the table following the preview image below.
Tips
To view your changes as they are updated dynamically, use the UI Preview, available on the right.
If you are using a login mechanism (for example, Remedy Single Sign-On) that bypasses the BMC Digital Workplace login page, do not customize the login page settings.
Rebranding area Action Global Navigation To change from the default dark global navigation style, select Dark, Light, or Gray. To update the product name, type your product name in the Product name field.
Tip: If required, you can leave this field blank.
To update the Product logo, click Add logo, or drag and drop the image file.
Workaround for displaying the logo on iOS mobile devices
Follow the steps given below to display the product logo in the Safari browser on an iOS device.
Rename the image file that has your product logo to apple-touch-icon.png, and copy it to the tenant-custom-res directory. The ID for the default tenant is 000000000000001.
If %TOMCAT_HOME%/webapps/tenant-custom-res/ does not exist, create the tenant-custom-res directory, and the copy the image file.
To update the Favi con for mobile devices, click Attach File, or drag and drop the image file.
This image will be used for the icon when users add BMC Digital Workplace to the home screen of their mobile devices.
Note
The Favicon will not be available on Microsoft Edge.
To update the Home screen icon for Android device, click Attach file, or drag and drop the image file . Colors To update the Primary state color, use the color picker tool, enter a hexadecimal code, or enter the RGB values. Select or clear the Use light text check box for defining the text color.
Note
When you log in to BMC Digital Workplace , the bottom line of the navigation bar is for a moment displayed in the prior color selected as the Primary state color . For example, the Primary state color is green, you update it to black, then log in to BMC Digital Workplace. The bottom line is green for a moment, but is restored to black shortly.
To update the Secondary state color, use the color picker tool, enter a hexadecimal code, or enter the RGB values. Select or clear the Use light text check box for defining the text color. To update the Active state color, use the color picker tool, enter a hexadecimal code, or enter the RGB values. Login page
Use Background color to specify the background color for the login page.
The gradients (if selected) will be applied to this color.
Note: You cannot delete or modify the Powered by BMC inscription at the bottom of the login page.
(Optional) Use Background: image to select a background image for the login page. Provide the image URL to be used in the background, and select the options to customize the look and feel.
(Optional) Use Background: linear gradient to configure the linear gradient by specifying one or more of the available settings.
(Optional) Use Background: radial gradient to c onfigure the radial gradient by specifying one or more of the available settings.
- To save your changes, click Apply changes.
To apply customization to the BMC Digital Workplace login
If you use the BMC Digital Workplace login, follow this procedure to apply the customization to the login screen. This procedure uses the CSS files that you generated in To rebrand BMC Digital Workplace. This procedure does not apply if you use an alternative sign-on process, such as Remedy Single Sign-On.
On the BMC Digital Workplace server, run the following command:
(Windows) list_tenants.bat (Linux) list_tenants.sh
The ID for the default tenant is 000000000000001, and the other ID values correspond to the other company tenants.
- If %TOMCAT_HOME%/webapps/tenant-custom-res/ does not exist on your BMC Digital Workplace server, create the tenant-custom-res directory.
- Copy the CSS files to the tenant-custom-res directory.
- Clear the Apache Tomcat cache by deleting the Catalina directory located at C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat8.0\work.
Restart the Apache Tomcat server.
To verify rebranding
Open http://localhost:9000/dwp/app in a browser.
Note
In multitenant environments, the login screen is the same for all tenants. To check the rebranding for a specific tenant, log in as a user who belongs to that tenant company.
To hide features from end users
Log in to the BMC Digital Workplace Admin console, and select Configuration > Application Features to enable or disable the following features. For more information, see Enabling end user features.
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