Welcome page - How to override current welcome page programmatically

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Hi,

We have a customized Welcome page for Notes clients and this has been achieved by modifying the bookmark.nsf, which is done when a user clicks on a button in an email that replaces the design of the local bookmark.nsf with the customized template from the server. This generally works good and shows the new welcome page customizations when the user has set the bookmark.nsf itself as the Welcome page. However, this does not work if the user has set the welcome page to a different db like the NAB/Mail box or even the workspace itself. The local bookmark.nsf would have been updated with the customization we have done in the template on the server. However, since the welcome page is set to something other than the bookmark.nsf file, the bookmark.nsf would not launch as the welcome page. Is there a way to programmatically change or override the user’s current welcome page settings and make the bookmark.nsf itself as the welcome page? where would this be set? Is it on the bookmark.nsf itself?

Please advise.

Thanks in advance.

Sudhakar

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Subject: Welcome page - How to override current welcome page programmatically

how about using a Desktop Policy.

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Subject: RE: Welcome page - How to override current welcome page programmatically

Hi Paul,

We have already rolled this out to 30% of the employees using the current method and the business want to continue to use the same. So i need to debug this issue.

This issue is reported only by a few users. Any idea how the Notes client decides ‘what’ it should launch on opening and where is it stored?

Thanks.

Sudhakar

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Subject: RE: Welcome page - How to override current welcome page programmatically

well you can check a few places:

there is a startup folder in the bookmarks bar on the left in the More Bookmarks bookmark. you can also check the notes.ini for a “startupdb” line. else, it’s likely stored somewhere in bookmark.nsf or desktop6.ndk but I do not know where off hand.