How do I create Welcome Page which simply displays home page of a Notes database.By customising a welcome page in a Bookmarks database I can choose my Notes database OK but then it insists that I choose a view. I don’t want a view here I just want to display the databases homepage or whatever the database opens by default. Can this be done?
Thanks
Subject: How do I create Welcome Page which just has the home page of a Notes database
Drag the DB icon, on to the Bookmark Bar, and then right click on it and set to Homepage.
One thing though, I set this for a user at work for his mail file, it all turned to custard when the mail server was down and it couldn’t open the database.
HTH
Subject: RE: How do I create Welcome Page which just has the home page of a Notes database
Thanks Conrad,Any idea how to get this to happen automatically when a user first installs the notes client?
I don’t think doing it this way changes the bookmark database. Where is this new homepage information held?
Subject: RE: How do I create Welcome Page which just has the home page of a Notes database
It should do. When the user launches Notes for the forst time the bookmarks.nsf is built, and is done so from the residing bookmark.ntf template. The key issue will be to replace the bookmark.ntf after install, but before the Notes Client is launched.
Getting the actual design properties of the Bookmark Bar may be more difficult in the designer.
Perhaps you could take one client, say your own. Delete the icons you don’t want and then mak a file database copy of your Bookmark.nsf and call it bookmark.ntf, (careful not to overwrite your own good one) and then use that.
Subject: RE: How do I create Welcome Page which just has the home page of a Notes database
Sorry Bob, was responding to a different post and got mixed up with a similar issue. Try this, virtually the same.
When the user launches Notes for the first time the bookmarks.nsf is built, and is done so from the residing bookmark.ntf template
The key issue will be to replace the bookmark.ntf after install, but before the Notes Client is launched.
Perhaps you could take one client, say your own. Set the Homepage you want want and then make a file database copy of your Bookmark.nsf and call it bookmark.ntf, (careful not to overwrite your own good one) and then use that.
Subject: RE: How do I create Welcome Page which just has the home page of a Notes database
In the corporate welcome page you can open a view. In this view, you can make codes that opens databases in different frames.
Subject: What you want is to programmatically set the bookmark as homepage
While you can use the postopen event of the view in the welcome page to open a frameset in another database, this doesn’t make it your homepage. I’ve opened a support ticket with Lotus to see how this can be done programmatically (probabaly via Lotus API call). Of course, manually you can right click on any bookmark and choose option "Set bookmark as homepage, but that’s no good for rolling out a large number of clients and breaks if you delete bookmark.nsf due to corruption, etc. There’s no Lotusscript function to set another db as homepage as of version 6.5.2 that I am aware of. Currently, I modify the bookmark.ntf using designer to force a frameset from another db to load, but there really should be a supported method to do this using an administrative policy setting.
Subject: RE: What you want is to programmatically set the bookmark as homepage
Roland, did you find the solution to programmatically change it? If so can you post the code? Thanks, Marc
Subject: How do I create Welcome Page which just has the home page of a Notes database
Bob,
One thing I don’t get with Domino’s strategy is that you can make a configuration change on the server so that you can make any database the homepage for web browsers, but you don’t have the same functionality available for Notes. This is a significant gap in my opinion. Lotus’ answer seems to be the Workplace welcome page option they released in 6.5, but this does not give administrators full functionality to deploy the welcome page of their choosing, with advanced portal-like functionality that any good Notes developer can do. I’ve put in an Enhancement SPR asking Lotus to make it possible to deploy any database as the welcome page using a policy setting on the server and it appears to not be getting much attention. I really think system admins/developers would like this feature.
Here’s a thread you may be interested in: