Installation and Technical Issues

[spatel]

Is there a way to globally change the start page that comes up?

[JeremyHutchinso]

I thought for sure there would be a simple way to do this, but I can't even find where the url for the start page is being stored.

I know it's not in the database, there are no database transactions when setting the home page.

When setting the home page to www.google.com, I wasn't able to find any files in Documents and Settings, or in the Sage Client directory that had "google" in the file using windows file search.

I wasn't able to find any reference to google in the registry.

I hope someone from Sage can come give us some insight on where they are storing that data, and why they aren't storing somewhere we can get to it. 

[trodman]

I'm not aware of anywhere to change it in the database.  I believe it would need to be changed on each machine.

Check out this folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Sage\Common Desktop 

You could edit the .html and .gif files there.

Tim 

[DGill]

Assuming you want to substitute the start page with an alternate web

 page you can do the following:

1) Modify the file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Sage\Common Desktop\Start Page\1033\Merge1\InformationCenter.htm by adding a new javascript function

         function OverrideHomePage()
              {
             window.location = "http://www.google.com/";
              }

2) Within the existing javascript function GeneratePage(), add the following line after the call to GenerateSideBar ()

              window.focus();

3) Add the following event to the Body element of the page

onFocus="OverrideHomePage()"

*The call to the new function works better in the onFocus event than just replacing the existing call in the onLoad event but necessitates the additional line of code to set the focus to the page after running the onLoad event

*Don't ask me what the difference is between Merge1 and Merge2 folders, I had made a change like this several months ago and never had to make it to the Merge2 folder

*It loads the original InformationCenter page and then redirects so you will visually see the original page and a second or so later be redirected to the url you set in OverrideHomePage()

*Depending on the web page you are redirecting to, you may get scripting errors with this approach (i.e www.cnn.com)

NOTE: This is nothing more than a hack but nonetheless should work depending on what you are trying to accomplish 

[paulk]

I know this is a really old post, but I just had to search on this issue and came across this result.  This can be changed in the database for all users.  You just need to look at the DesktopSettings column of tsmUserDesktop.  It's XML, but there is a start page field in there.

[oyama]

Yes, that works for 7.2 but it will not work for 7.3.

For 7.3 take a look at the 15th post here:  http://community.sagemas.com/t5/Administration-Core-Financials/Changing-the-color-of-the-Desktop-in-...