Personalization in Fusion - Look and Feel

Personalization In Fusion – Part II

MODIFYING THE LOOK AND FEEL OF FUSION APPLICATION:

If you want to learn to personalize your Fusion outlay, you’re at the right place. From changing colors to integrating logos, this blog post will help you make the platform more authentic. Reshape the fusion platform in the image of your business for the professional appeal. Fabricate an immersive environment with the fusion.  Some of the salient points justifying such a move are: a.     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 help individuals to identify the Environment that they are working on, 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. b.    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 flexibility and enables users to do so. c.     Uniquely identify a particular instance (POD / Fusion Environment: For a typical organization using Fusion Applications or for that matter any other ERP system there are multiple environments (Also referred to 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 the 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 the color-coding scheme on the environment (maybe as displayed below):

Environment Name	Color
Development	Green
UAT	Yellow
SIT	Blue
Pre-Production	Gold
Production	Orange

There could be many more reasons but for now, we would restrict ourselves to the above three and continue with our example.

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 log in 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 below 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)         

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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 confirmation.

An important point to note here is that all these changes did not require 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-we 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 the Homepage:

So we saw how the skin, theme and various colors of the appearance of a Fusion environment can be changed. Anyone can hopefully get the desired results by following the same process.