How to override browser title

Question

Does anyone know how to change the browser title? I went straight into index and changed the contents of the <title> tag, but apparently IdM overides that somewhere. I've also tried setting "browserTitleProdNameOverride" in System Configuration.xml to true, and modified UI_BROWSER_TITLE_PROD_NAME_OVERRIDE in a custom catalog, but that hasn't done it. This should be such a simple change to make, but IdM is overriding the obvious solution...

Answer 1

Customizing the Browser Title Bar
You can now replace the product name string in the browser title bar with a
localizable string of your choice. Note: These instructions where copied from the Sun Identity Manager 8.0 Technical Depoloyment Overview pdf in the chapter titlec "Private Labeling of Identity Manager". To the best of my knowledge this is the first pdf doc to include step 3. Prior releases failed to include step 3.
*1.* Import the following XML file:
Code Example 7-2 XML to Import
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE Configuration PUBLIC 'waveset.dtd' 'waveset.dtd'>
<Configuration name='AltMsgCatalog'>
<Extension>
<CustomCatalog id='AltMsgCatalog' enabled='true'>
<MessageSet language='en' country='US'>
<Msg id='UI_BROWSER_TITLE_PROD_NAME_OVERRIDE'>Browser Title Bar Text Here</Msg>
</MessageSet>
</CustomCatalog>
</Extension>
</Configuration>
*2.* Using the Identity Manager IDE, load the System Configuration object for editing. Add the following line inside the
<Configuration>
<Extension>
<Object>
<Attribute name='customMessageCatalog' value='AltMsgCatalog'/>
*3.* Also in the System Configuration object, you must change ui.web.browserTitleProdNameOverride to true.
<Attribute name='browserTitleProdNameOverride'>
<Boolean>true</Boolean>
</Attribute>
*&bull;4.* Save this change to the System Configuration object, and restart your application server.
*&bull;5.* The part missing (Browser Title Bar on Admin and End User login pages).
<ul><li>A. The Browser Title Bar on the Login Page does not change when the above configurations are made. However the Broswer Title Bar on every page after you log into IDM will display the value in the UI_BROWSER_TITLE_PROD_NAME_OVERRIDE. If you are wondering how to change the Browser Title Bar on the Admin and User Login Page read on.</li>
<li>B. ReleaseConstants$ProductVersion is a class file you'll need to extract from idmcommon.jar. The contents of ReleaseConstants$ProductVersion are included below. We decided not to mess with an update, but in a nut shell you will need to update the getProductName() method. The suggestion is to set this value to the same value used by UI_BROWSER_TITLE_PROD_NAME_OVERRIDE. Compile and implement which are steps we chose not to attempt. If anyone goes through the compile and implementation steps please share.</li>
</ul>
package com.waveset.object;
// Referenced classes of package com.waveset.object:
// ReleaseConstants
public static final class ReleaseConstants$ProductVersion extends ReleaseConstants$VersionImpl {
public String getMajor()
return "7";
public String getMinor()
return "0";
public String getServicePack()
return "0";
public String getProductName()
return "Identity Manager";
public ReleaseConstants$ProductVersion()