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How to Display Your Company Logo on Your Kronos Application

Posted by Bryan deSilva on Tue, Jun 01, 2010
  
  
  
  
  
  
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(You can download a PPT presentation of this cool Kronos technique at: http://www.slideshare.net/bdesilva )
 
When you install your Kronos system and launch it for the first time, you may notice the pretty company logo in the upper left area of the logon screen.  Whose logo is it?  Surprise surprise… it belongs to Kronos!  And it probably looks a little like this:
 
 
Now, we all love Kronos, that’s why we bought it.  But we may want to have our corporate identity and logo (which we happen to think looks pretty sharp!) to be associated with the timekeeping application, rather than that of our beloved vendor.  Luckily, swapping the Kronos logo for yours is a simple procedure.
 
First, find your logo, either from your corporate communications department, or from your corporate website.  Edit it so that it is reasonably close to the pixel dimensions 326 x 50.  It will help if there is some blue in it, so that it does not clash too much with the blue-toned Kronos sign-on screen. Hey, just because you are a timekeeping system administrator does not mean that you have no sense of aesthetics!

  

Second, replace the Kronos logo with your own.  To do so, follow these steps:
 
  • Log on to your Kronos application server
  • Using Windows Explorer, locate the Kronos\\wfc\\applications\\wpk\\html\\images folder.  It
  • could be on the C, D, or E drive, depending on how your application server was configured (see figure below)
 

 

  • Copy your desired logo (from step 1 above) to that folder.  It can be in GIF, JPG, or even PNG format
  • Within that folder, locate the file logo64.gif, and rename it to Logo64Kronos.gif
  • Rename the file copied in step ‘c’ to logo64.gif.   Note: This file does NOT need to be an actual gif-formatted file.  Name it logo64.gif anyway.  Trust us on this one – the browser will not care.
  • Click View-Refresh from your browser, and Voila!  Your company logo, or project logo, or timekeeping system branding, or whatever graphic you wish to appear, will appear to your employees when they launch the application.

 

 

 So what about the tiny Kronos logo in the upper left, after you have logged on and you see the actual application?  It looks like this:

 
 
The file name is Cornergraphic164*124-2.jpg, and it is in the same folder (see ‘b’ above).  It is trickier to manipulate, since it is so small, but the idea is still the same.  Replace Cornergraphic164*124-2.jpg with the desired file, and you are good to go.
 
Article contributed by Myron Oakes. Thank you!

 

Change the Kronos WFC Logo
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A related customization: 
 
You can change the colors used in Kronos screens. For any non-production instances I just change colors for stuff towards the top and on the login screens. Green for training, red for test, etc. This is well documented in HELP. It keeps both me and client from accidentally interacting with the "wrong" ewnvironment. More than once I have made a major fix, reported "done" to client and have them get mad that it "still doesn't work", only to discover that they checked in the wrong instance.
Posted @ Tuesday, June 01, 2010 2:05 PM by Kim Wennerberg
Changing Kronos logos with that of your organization is such a simple process yet I am amazed by very few number of people who choose to do so... The reason for that is a simple one: People don't know that it can be done.  
So your blog has done a great service to many Kronos admins out there who would possibly trying it right now. Thanks for that.
Posted @ Wednesday, June 02, 2010 4:57 AM by Chaman Gupta
Sign me up
Posted @ Thursday, June 03, 2010 9:44 AM by David McDermott
Does this work for 6.0?
Posted @ Friday, June 04, 2010 11:57 AM by ABailey
Does this work with the newer version of Kronos 6.1? 
 
 
 
Posted @ Thursday, June 10, 2010 9:24 AM by Roger
As a general rule, the easiest way to replace images is to go the screen that has the image you want to change displayed on it. Then do a right-click and select "save image as" or whatever your browser calls it. This will now show you what the image file is named! 
 
Search for that file. In this case we know which folder it's going to be in. Load the file into an image editor to see what it's dimensions are. If you create your image in the same size and format (.gif, .jpg, etc) you know that the application will have no problem finding or displaying it. 
 
Simply replace the factory default file with your new one, after making a copy of the original one of course, and that ought to do it. You might have to restart the application and/or web server, depending on how the application works and what gets cached. 
 
For images placed on colored backgrounds, you might want your image to either use that same color for the background or use a transparent background if the image format type will support it. 
 
For Kronos 6.0, the Kronos logo at the lower left of the screen is called "logo-tagline.gif" and it's 183x44 pixels. 
 
The smaller Kronos logo at the top right of each screen is called "logo.png" and is 127x52. 
 
Hope that helps. 
Posted @ Thursday, June 17, 2010 10:17 AM by Marty Allred
Oops. Forgot to mention that in 6.0, the images are going to be in the Kronos\<instance_name>\applications\wpk\themes\basic and/or Kronos\<instance_name>\applications\themes\global folder. Where <instance_name> is "wfc" by default. 
 
There's also a "branding" folder in ...\wpk\html\images that has some fun ones to play with. 
 
One of the Kronos manuals has more information on how to brand your 6.0 installation.
Posted @ Thursday, June 17, 2010 10:21 AM by Marty Allred
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