How to Personalize Oracle Apps Login Page

This article describes how to personalize Oracle apps Login page.

1.  Attributes of the login page

It is possible to control the display of some attributes of the login page, for instance user name or password hints, language switchers, forgot password link, corporate policy message, etc.

For this, we need to set the profile option 'Local Login Mask' (FND_SSO_LOCAL_LOGIN_MASK) with a number being the sum of the mask values described in the table below:

  

               Description                                                                             Mask value

Hint for Username (USERNAME_HINT)                                                    01

 

Hint for Password (PASSWORD_HINT)                                                    02

Cancel button (CANCEL_BUTTON)                                                            04   

 

Forgot Password link (FORGOT_PASSWORD_URL)                                 08

  

Registration link (REGISTER_URL)                                                           16

 

Language Images (LANGUAGE_IMAGES)                                                 32

 

Corporate Policy Message (SARBANES_OXLEY_TEXT)                            64

 

o   For example the value 32 (default) displays only the language icons and value 127 will show all the attributes on the page. 

o   The change takes effect immediately after re-login to E-Business Suite.

2.  Message texts

It is possible to modify or add text on the login page by changing the value of some messages.

The following shows the related messages and their default value:

Description                                                                 Default value 

FND_SSO_WELCOME                                                           Login 

FND_SSO_EBIZ_SUITE                                                 E-Business Suite 

FND_SSO_SARBANES_OXLEY_TEXT                    Corporate Policy Message 

To change the value of a message: 

•        Go to "Application Developer" responsibility

•        Select "Messages" from the menu

•        Query the message name and then enter your message text in the "Current Message Text" field 

•        Save changes and exit

•        Clear cache and bounce Apache to see the change

Please Note that some messages can be used elsewhere that in the login page and can be updated by a patch

q If we want to change the default branding 'E-Business Suite' on other pages, to match the text on the login page (defined by FND_SSO_EBIZ_SUITE message), then follow the steps below:

a.  Login with System Administrator responsibility

b.  Navigate: Application ---> Function

c.   Query the function 'FWK_HOMEPAGE_BRAND'

d.  Replace the value of the 'User Function Name' with the desired text

c. Logout and login to see the change (you shouldn't need to clear caches and bounce apache) 

3.  Corporate branding logo

The Oracle logo is displayed on various E-Business Suite pages and can be changed by

setting       the       'Corporate       Branding       Image       for       Oracle    Applications' 

(FND_CORPORATE_BRANDING_IMAGE) profile option to the full path name of an image file (.gif) that contains your corporate image.

However it is not possible to use this method for AppsLocalLogin.jsp since it is hard coded with the Oracle logo image file 'FNDSSCORP.gif'.

•        Go to the $OA_HTML directory

•        Backup the AppsLocalLogin.jsp file

•        Copy your own corporate branding image under $OA_MEDIA directory  Edit the AppsLocalLogin.jsp file :

ImageBean imgBean1 = new ImageBean("/OA_MEDIA/FNDSSCORP.gif", FND_ORACLE_LOGO); to :

ImageBean imgBean1 = new ImageBean("/OA_MEDIA/<your image file name>", FND_ORACLE_LOGO);

•        Clear caches and bounce Apache to see the changes.

4.  Other modifications

AppsLocalLogin.jsp being a Java Server Page you can change the HTML or Java code (for example, JDeveloper), create our own messages in the Messages Dictionary through AOL responsibility, etc., if we want to add other customizations. This is considered as a customization and thus not supported by Oracle. If we apply patches replacing AppsLocalLogin.jsp the file will be overwritten.