OBIEE Selecting SKIN and STYLE from URL

Sometimes you want to redirect a user to a different SKIN and or STYLE. One method is giving the SKIN/STYLE name in the login URL.

To enable this feature you first you have to define a parameterlist in Auth\UserIdPassword part of the instanceconfig.xml:

<Auth>
    <UserIdPassword enabled="true">
        <ParamList>
            <Param name="NQ_SESSION.STYLE" source="URL" nameInSource="STL"/>
            <Param name="NQ_SESSION.SKIN" source="URL" nameInSource="SKN"/>
        </ParamList>
    </UserIdPassword>
</Auth>

Restart the presentation server. Now add the SKIN and STYLE to the URL: http://vmobiee:9704/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard&SKN=siebel77&STL=siebel77

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