4.3 Specifying a Default Home Page for All Users

By default, all users who log in to the Teaming site are first taken to their personal workspace. However, you can change this default behavior to have all users taken to the same home page. This might be a corporate landing page that provides links to important places on the Teaming site.

  1. Create a landing page on the workspace that you want to set as the new default home page for all users.

    For example, you might navigate to the Global Workspaces directory and create a landing page on this workspace.

    For information on how to create a landing page, see Creating and Managing Landing Pages in the Novell Teaming 2.1 Advanced User Guide.

  2. Configure a simple URL for the home page.

    1. Click Manage > Configure in the Workspace toolbar.

    2. In the Define URL section, in the drop-down list, select one of the available options.

      For example, select leave blank.

    3. In the provided field, specify home.

    4. Click Add > Close.

  3. Set the access control for the workspace to allow all users to be visitors to the workspace, if it is not set already.

    1. Click Manage > Access Control in the Workspace toolbar.

    2. In the Inherit role membership section, select no, then click Apply.

    3. In the All Users row, ensure that the box is selected in the Visitor column.

    4. Click Save Changes > Close.

  4. On the Teaming server, change to the following directory:

    Linux:

    		 
    /opt/novell/teaming/apache-tomcat-version/
                           webapps/teaming/WEB-INF/

    Windows:

    		 
    c:\Program Files\Novell\Teaming\apache-tomcat-version\
                           webapps\teaming\WEB-INF\

  5. Open the web.xml file in a text editor.

  6. Locate the following section in the file:

    <context-param>
<param-name>landingPagePath</param-name>
<param-value>/ssf/a/</param-value>
</context-param>

  7. Replace ssf/a with home.

    This line should now look as follows:

    <param-value>home</param-value>

  8. Save and close the web.xml file, then stop and restart Teaming.

If you want users to be automatically taken to this page before they log in, and if you want people who do not have a user account to access the page, see Section 5.3.2, Setting Up Guest Access for the Teaming Site.