Web Tailor Management

Web Menus and Procedures

  1. Sign into Self-Service Banner, using an account that has the Web Tailor Administrator role.
  2. Click on the Web Tailor Administration button in the upper navigation bar.
  3. Click on the Web Menus and Procedures button.
  4. Search for the web menu you wish to modify.
  5. Select the web menu you wish to modify from the search results.
  6. Make the necessary changes, and save. You may also use the buttons to navigate to customizing menu items or information text.
  7. Sign out when done.

  1. Sign into Self-Service Banner, using an account that has the Web Tailor Administrator role.
  2. Click on the Web Tailor Administration button in the upper navigation bar.
  3. Click on the Menu Items button.
  4. Search for the web menu you wish to modify.
  5. Select the web menu you wish to modify from the search results.
  6. If you have baseline entries without corresponding local entries, you may need to use SQL Developer to create local entries in the WTAILOR.TWGRMENU table manually.
  7. You may reorder the menu items by selecting the desired order number from the drop-down lists.
  8. You may click on a local menu item to enable it, change its properties, or delete it.
  9. Save your changes, and verify that the menu now looks as expected.
  10. Sign out when done.

Information Text

  1. Sign into Self-Service Banner, using an account that has the Web Tailor Administrator role.
  2. Click on the Web Tailor Administration button in the upper navigation bar.
  3. Click on the Information Text button.
  4. Search for the menu or menu item you wish to modify.
  5. Select the item you wish to modify from the search results. NOTE: Most menus, and a few menu items, do not have information text. It is possible to add text to any menu item or menu, but it may drastically change the way the item is displayed.
  6. If you have baseline entries without corresponding local entries, you may need to use SQL Developer to create local entries in the WTAILOR.TWGRINFO table manually.
  7. You may click on a local text item to change its properties or delete it.
  8. Save your changes, and verify that the text item now looks as expected.
  9. Sign out when done.

Help Pages

The upper-left-hand corner of the SAIL screen has a button for Help. The content of the page being displayed is located on the SSB web server, and must be edited there (or edited elsewhere, and uploaded there). Assuming that you are editing the file on the server, use the following steps to edit this content:

  1. Login to a terminal session on the SSB server (banapp04.sys.oakland.edu for TEST, banapp05.sys.oakland.edu for PROD), using SSH, PuTTY, or a similar program.
  2. Become the oracle user (use sudo su - oracle, or xsu oracle).

  3. Navigate to the appropriate directory: /home/oracle/bannerss/databaseSID/wtlhelp (where databaseSID is either TEST or PROD).

  4. Open the twbhhelp.htm file (using vi, vim, gvim, or some other text editor). Make your changes and save the file.
  5. Log out from the server.
  6. User may have to clear their browser cache to see the changes.

User Roles

  1. Sign into Self-Service Banner, using an account that has the Web Tailor Administrator role.
  2. Click on the Web Tailor Administration button in the upper navigation bar.
  3. Click on the User Roles button.
  4. Enter the Grizzly ID of the person whose roles you wish to modify. Case does not matter.
  5. Enable or disable roles as needed. NOTE: Some roles are determined by the information stored about a person in Banner, and cannot be modified using this procedure.
  6. Save your changes.
  7. Sign out when done.

Web Tailor Parameters, Graphic Elements, LDAP Administration, &c.

Web Tailor Parameters generally should not be modified unless instructed by Ellucian; however, there are some parameters whose values we have set to installation-specific values (which should be self-evident from those values, e.g. ".oakland.edu", or "https://sail.oakland.edu"). Likewise, our graphic elements, LDAP Administration, and other parameters were set long ago, and generally will not change.

If you must change a value:

  1. Sign into Self-Service Banner, using an account that has the Web Tailor Administrator role.
  2. Click on the Web Tailor Administration button in the upper navigation bar.
  3. Click on the button corresponding to what you want to change (Web Tailor Parameters, Graphic Elements, &c).

  4. If a parameter or graphic element, click on the name of the parameter whose value you wish to modify; otherwise, locate the value you wish to change.
  5. Change the value as needed.
  6. Save your changes. The changes take effect immediately.
  7. Sign out when done.

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