Discoverer 10G customization

Hi All,
I have customized up my discoverer viewer (10.1.2.55.26) as much as I can using the Oracle docs - but I still have a few questions.
1. How to hide the "Connect To" on the login page but have it default to "OracleBI Discoverer". I have read this article 312463.1 . . close but didn't hit it exactly. This - 400638.1 is the most promising but an OHS re-write rule, so that URLs like:
http://hostname:port/discoverer/viewer
is"re-written" as:
http://hostname:port/discoverer/plus?lm=discoverer
. . . . scares me! Does anyone have the exact steps and code to achieve this.
2. How to hide the "Locale" on the login page
3. How to increase the number of rows retrieved by default from a LOV in Viewer.
Many Thanks

Hi Robert
Hmmm - yes and no is my opinion of that advice. If you have an existing Discoverer Administrator set up on your machine you can add the Desktop component to the same home. You do this by re-inserting or running the original installer. You use the same Oracle Home then select the Custom option. From the Custom screen you can then check Desktop. It will be added as another tool.
If you are using a stand-alone Desktop installer then yes, I agree that you can't use the same Oracle Home as the stand-alone Desktop installler does not have the Administration components and you could, aka more than likely will, mess things up.
Best wishes
Michael

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I would have to suspect that the answer to the question of restricting responsibilities might well be yes.
Here's one idea:
Because responsibilities come from FND_RESPONSBILITIES, can you write a piece of SQL that positively identifies the responsibilities that are used inside Discoverer? If you can do that, I'm wondering whether a Discoverer logon trigger might be able to set a VPD policy to only allow those responsibilities.
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