In Alfresco 5.1.x, it’s easy for users to change their
own home page. The Use Current Page option in the user menu can be used to
change the logged in user’s home page to the current page. And, the home page
can also be reset back to the user’s dashboard with the selection of the Use My
Dashboard option.
But, what if you want all of your Alfresco users to
use the same landing page when they log in to Alfresco Share? Perhaps you’d
like it to be your corporate site dashboard or a heavily-used site folder?
Instead of having your users individually change their home page, an admin user
can easily make a global change for all users like this:
1.
Open
the TOMCAT/webapps/share/site-index.jsp file for editing.
a.
Look
for the following lines at the bottom of the file:
//
redirect to site or user dashboard as appropriate
String siteName = request.getParameter("site");
if (siteName == null || siteName.length() ==
0)
{
// Get and forward to user's home page
SlingshotUserFactory slingshotUserFactory =
(SlingshotUserFactory)
FrameworkUtil.getServiceRegistry().getUserFactory();
String userHomePage = slingshotUserFactory.getUserHomePage(context,
userid);
response.sendRedirect(request.getContextPath() + userHomePage);
}
else
{
// forward to site specific dashboard page
response.sendRedirect(request.getContextPath() + "/page/site/"
+ URLEncoder.encode(siteName) + "/dashboard");
}
b.
Set
the "siteName" variable to your preferred landing page site name, for example:
String siteName = request.getParameter("site");
siteName = "formtek";
c.
If
you want your site dashboard to be the new landing page, you’re done editing
the file. However, if you want your new landing page to be a folder in your
site, you’ll need to make one more change to replace “dashboard” in the following line with the document library folder of your choice:
response.sendRedirect(request.getContextPath()
+ "/page/site/" + URLEncoder.encode(siteName) + "/dashboard");
In this example, I’m using the “Policies and Procedures” folder in the
site’s document library:
response.sendRedirect(request.getContextPath()
+ "/page/site/" + URLEncoder.encode(siteName) + "/documentlibrary#filter=path%7C%2FPolicies%2520and%2520Procedures%7C&page=1");
NOTE: To
get the correct folder syntax, you can navigate to the folder in Alfresco Share
and copy the folder syntax from the browser address bar.
d.
Save
your changes and close the file.
2.
Restart
Alfresco for the changes to take effect.
Now, when a user logs in to Alfresco Share,
the user will be redirected to your newly configured landing page. Here are two
different results for the above examples:
The configured site dashboard is the
new landing page:
The configured site folder is the
new landing page:
It is important to note that if your new
landing page restricts site membership (as in the case of the “private” example
site above), non-members would see the following upon login:
Clicking the “Back to My Dashboard” button redirects
unprivileged users to their own home page. To eliminate this scenario, changes
would need to be made to verify site membership and only redirect site members
to the new landing page. (Perhaps the
discussion of a future post.)
