topic Customising the dashboard in Alfresco Archive

Customising the dashboard

markrogers — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:55:25 GMT

We recently installed Alfresco for someone to play with; we don't know it very well ourselves as end users. They've come back to me with the following question:I am finding the Alfresco site a little un-user friendly when trying to access the documents I have managed to customise the dashboard so “M

Re: Customising the dashboard

tvaughan77 — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:07:08 GMT

You can control what the default "home screen" is for a user by editing ./tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/web-client-config.xml and tweaking this attribute:

        
         <!– The default location to display when the browse screen is first shown –>
         <!– This value should be one of 'myalfresco', 'userhome', 'companyhome' or 'guesthome' –>
         <initial-location>myalfresco</initial-location>
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You can also customize what their "myalfresco" space looks like by clicking the "customize" button in the top-right of their page and playing with the different portlets in different configurations until you find one that you think meets your usability concerns.

Re: Customising the dashboard

markrogers — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:24:30 GMT

Thanks for this. I have been experimenting, and I think the key thing has been to make sure the end user only has access to one site and therefore gets taken straight to that site without having to select it, but a documents dashlet might be a nice-to-have? I think I'm going to remove a lot of things from the dash so that it's less cluttered for the casual user.