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Frequently Customized User Interface Messages

Messages that are frequently customized are located in the file UIMessages.xml. This file contain text strings for display elements and for links throughout the user interface.

For example, the following messages contain the text for the links Admin, Alerts!, and Answers in the user interface. You can customize the text, or delete the text to suppress the display of the link.

<WebMessage name="kmsgUIAdmin">

  <HTML>Admin</HTML>

</WebMessage>

<WebMessage name="kmsgUIAlerts">

  <HTML>Alerts!</HTML>

</WebMessage>

<WebMessage name="kmsgUIAnswers">

  <HTML>Answers</HTML>

</WebMessage>

Removing the Download (Excel) Hyperlink

Users can export the data for a report to either a CSV file or a Microsoft Excel file. If you do not want to support the download to Excel option, you can remove the hyperlink.

To remove the Download (Excel) hyperlink

  1. Open the ViewsControlMessages.xml file.
  2. Copy the following message to the CustomMessages.xml file:

    3. <WebMessage name="kmsgEVCDownloadLinks">

      <HTML>

        <a insert="1">

          <MessageRef name="kmsgEVCLinkDownloadExcel" />

        </a>

        <a insert="2">

          <MessageRef name="kmsgEVCLinkDownloadData" />

        </a>

      </HTML>

  3. Delete the first message identifier anchor:

    4.     <a insert="1">

          <MessageRef name="kmsgEVCLinkDownloadExcel" />

        </a>

  4. Save the CustomMessages.xml file.

For more information about the CustomMessages.xml file, see Sample CustomMessages.xml File.


 Siebel Analytics Web Administration Guide 
 Published: 18 April 2003