To raise the awareness of working in a production or development environment we changed the color of the ribbon for each CRM 2011 environment at our client. When working in Development, the ribbon is green, in Qualification orange, red for Acceptance and the color for Production is the default CRM color –We don’t want our end users to go mad–. The result is something like this:
Development (D)
Qualification (Q)
Acceptance (A)
Production (P)
- Open a remote desktop connection and log in to the CRM server. For example:
- On the server, browse to the “static css” folder:C:\Program Files\Microsoft Dynamics CRM\CRMWeb\_static\css\1033
- If there are multiple languages, you should change the css in each language folder:
1033 = English
1043 = Dutch
1036 = French
- Open the file cui.css and change the following classes:
Original class
Changed class
.ms-cui-topBar2
{border-bottom: 1px solid #b6babf;
height: 43px;
}
.ms-cui-topBar2
{border-bottom: 1px solid #b6babf;
height: 43px;
background-color: rgba(255, 136, 51, 0.5);
}
.ms-cui-tabBody
{overflow: hidden;
width: 100%;
height: 90px;
background-color : #ffffff;
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-position: left bottom;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 0px 0px 1px 0px;
border-bottom-color: #898d92;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
.ms-cui-tabBody
{overflow: hidden;
width: 100%;
height: 90px;
/*background-color: #ffffff;*/
background-image: none;
background-color: rgba(255, 136, 51, 0.5);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-position: left bottom;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 0px 0px 1px 0px;
border-bottom-color: #898d92;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
- Depending
on the environment you will need to use another and color. See table below for
the values:Environment
RGBA Color
Color
CRM D
rgba(184, 249, 181, 0.5);
CRM Q
rgba(255, 136, 51, 0.5);
CRM A
rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.3);
CRM P
default