37.0 Rebranding Reports

Sentinel provides the white label report template that is available under the Sentinel Core Solution Pack. Sentinel uses this template to generate reports. You can customize the template to have your own header, footer and logo to suit your organization needs.

To customize the template, perform the following:

  1. In the Reports and Searches panel, select the Sentinel Core White Label Template report definition, and then click Export.

  2. Save the file to your local computer.

  3. Create a new folder.

  4. Extract the file contents to the new folder by using any ZIP extraction tool.

  5. In the new folder, open the resources folder. In this folder, you can modify the following files:

    • Header/Footer.jrxml: Contains the report layout descriptions. You can modify the layout of fields, text, or images in the header and footer, but you must ensure that the overall size of the header and footer does not change. You can manually edit the XML file or use iReport to modify them.

    • Header/Footer*.properties: Contains the text in the layout file, which localized into various languages. You can modify the strings that appear in the header or footer by editing this file. Ensure that the new strings do no exceed the space allocated to them. For information about editing the .properties file, see Oracle Java documentation.

    • Logo.jpg: Contains the logo that appears in the footer. You can replace this file with another image. Ensure that the size of the new image is exactly the same size of the existing image.

  6. Use a ZIP tool to re-zip the modified report template.

  7. In the Reports and Searches panel, click Import reports or searches, browse to this zip file, and then click Import.

    NOTE:If the folder structure is different than the original ZIP file, the import process displays an error. Ensure that you do not modify the folder structure after making the changes.

  8. Schedule any report definition and view the report to ensure that the changes are applied correctly.