Custom Landing page for each user or group

[Craig Nelson]

Is there a quick way to route each user to a different landing page in alfresco share? I assume that this would be done through code but I wanted to check before I start down that road.

[Kevin Dorr]

Craig - 

The initial landing page (the one that you go to as soon as you login) is an individual landing page, and each user has their own. The landing page for each site is a group page (everyone sees the same page for the site), which makes sense from the perspective of using share sites to collaborate. I hope this helps!

Kevin Dorr

Alfresco Software

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Craig Nelson <craig.mich...@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a quick way to route each user to a different landing page in alfresco share? I assume that this would be done through code but I wanted to check before I start down that road.

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[Craig Nelson]

Thanks for the reply, is there a quick way to customize the landing pages for each user to take them to the repository view, a site view, to the task view or to their standard default dashboard? Or how would you go about customizing their landing page to be these pages instead? 

[Kevin Dorr]

You would need to write a bit of code to do what you're talking about specifically. Depending on what you're trying to accomplish, you might be able to create some dashlets that would be able to show (or simulate) different displays for your users. You can, of course, customize the default dashboard for each user using the customize dashboard page that is reached from the gear icon on the home page, which would allow you to set the dashboard layout and the dashlets that are displayed. 

In order to actually switch to a different page, I think you would need to add some data to each user record that would keep track of which URL to reference when the home page was selected / displayed. Jeff wrote a blog post about how to add properties to the cm:person object here: http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2012/02/27/1555

K.

[Jeff Potts]

I think a "where I prefer to go after login" setting on the user profile would be a welcome addition to the product.

How about implementing that for a hack-a-thon project on May 16, Kevin?

Jeff

[Richard Esplin]

I haven't personally done this, but I have read in the forums about a few
approaches.

This is an example of how to change the login to go to a specific site's
document library:

http://forums.alfresco.com/forum/installation-upgrades-configuration-integration/configuration/login-document-library-06192012

This conversation discussion at a high level a different approach:

http://forums.alfresco.com/forum/developer-discussions/alfresco-share-development/dynamic-landing-page-11192012-1441

And the second half of this blog post is relevant:

http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/developer/2011/11/01/advanced-share-customization-part-1/

Cheers,

Richard

On Thursday, April 24, 2014 15:09:58 Craig Nelson wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, is there a quick way to customize the landing pages
> for each user to take them to the repository view, a site view, to the task
> view or to their standard default dashboard? Or how would you go about
> customizing their landing page to be these pages instead?
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Kevin Dorr <kevi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Craig -
> >
> > The initial landing page (the one that you go to as soon as you login) is
> > an individual landing page, and each user has their own. The landing page
> > for each site is a group page (everyone sees the same page for the site),
> > which makes sense from the perspective of using share sites to
> > collaborate.
> > I hope this helps!
> >
> > Kevin Dorr
> > Alfresco Software
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Craig Nelson <
> >
> > craig.mich...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Is there a quick way to route each user to a different landing page in
> >> alfresco share? I assume that this would be done through code but I
> >> wanted
> >> to check before I start down that road.

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[Douglas C. R. Paes]

This is a very interesting discussion

Douglas C. R. Paes

"Done is better than perfect"

Zuckerberg

[Craig Nelson]

Thanks everyone for the direction. This is just what i needed. If I do end up coding this then I post my code so that others can use it.