Using Internet Explorer to customize OBIEE 11g UI

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We recently had a requirement that the button sizes in OBIEE had to be increased. The reasoning was that the users of some of these reports are old and they hate smaller sized buttons. Now we know the properties of buttons such as the size are set in the css files which together form the skin. While it is possible to copy the skin and then edit the desired property, it is a long process.
This blog talks about a shortcut to achieve the objective.

3 way switch in OBIEE 11g

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While we all know about using conditions on sections in a dashboard, and while we all have used presentation variables to show or hide a report using these conditions, this blog talks about a process to use conditions on sections to implement a 3 way decision rather than just a boolean (true/false) decision.