What would your purpose of showing another section be? I guess you could handle it restricting access on user permissions by disallowing access to the "content" section, which of course would force Umbraco to start in another section...
But don't know if that would make any sense in your context?
No, I can't just restrict acces to the content panel sadly enough. Our client is a big franchise chain, so they would like to start with a page that shows the latest news and upcoming events etc. Possibly with quick links to certain other parts of the CMS and links with guides for the technologically challenged idiots that need to have someone hold their hand throughout the use of the system.
We think we found a solution though, but it's not the nicests way in my opinion. By downloading the Umbraco source, we found out were Umbraco determines to which section to send you, which is hardcoded to be content. We changed this our section, compiled it, and replaced the DLL. It works... but it would mean having to change this everytime we do an Umbraco update.
A way to do this without touching the Umbraco source would be preferable.
How you looked into using a dashboard for then content section to handle this? Sounds like the ideal solution to me? You should be able to do all of the stuff you mention above.
(You should probably edit your post, in case someone stumples upon this by accident googling or binging ;-))
Anyway, that COULD work, but would still leave you stuck on the content section, meaning there is no nice, big button to click to go back there. Well, the content button would be there, naturally, but clicking that wouldn't give me the expectation of seeing the screen we want. It gives the expectation of being able to manage my content.
Still, I'll toss up the idea and see what the others think of it.
The dashboard is only shown once you login and if you click the "content" node, which you probably know. I can't see what is wrong with that. It's first with the 4.6.1 release all the nice space has been used by Umbraco to promote packages etc.
I guess it should be possible to make nice big buttons making it very clear and obvious, which section they lead to.
Default section
When you login in Umbraco, it by default opens the Content section. Is it possible to change which section it opens on login?
-Ferdy
Hi Ferdy
What would your purpose of showing another section be? I guess you could handle it restricting access on user permissions by disallowing access to the "content" section, which of course would force Umbraco to start in another section...
But don't know if that would make any sense in your context?
/Jan
No, I can't just restrict acces to the content panel sadly enough. Our client is a big franchise chain, so they would like to start with a page that shows the latest news and upcoming events etc. Possibly with quick links to certain other parts of the CMS and links with guides for the technologically challenged idiots that need to have someone hold their hand throughout the use of the system.
We think we found a solution though, but it's not the nicests way in my opinion. By downloading the Umbraco source, we found out were Umbraco determines to which section to send you, which is hardcoded to be content. We changed this our section, compiled it, and replaced the DLL. It works... but it would mean having to change this everytime we do an Umbraco update.
A way to do this without touching the Umbraco source would be preferable.
-Ferdy
Hi Ferdy
How you looked into using a dashboard for then content section to handle this? Sounds like the ideal solution to me? You should be able to do all of the stuff you mention above.
(You should probably edit your post, in case someone stumples upon this by accident googling or binging ;-))
/Jan
Hmm, I can't edit my original post it seems =\
Anyway, that COULD work, but would still leave you stuck on the content section, meaning there is no nice, big button to click to go back there. Well, the content button would be there, naturally, but clicking that wouldn't give me the expectation of seeing the screen we want. It gives the expectation of being able to manage my content.
Still, I'll toss up the idea and see what the others think of it.
-Ferdy
Hi Ferdy
The dashboard is only shown once you login and if you click the "content" node, which you probably know. I can't see what is wrong with that. It's first with the 4.6.1 release all the nice space has been used by Umbraco to promote packages etc.
I guess it should be possible to make nice big buttons making it very clear and obvious, which section they lead to.
I guess it can be done in numerous ways...
Hope you guys figure out something smart :-)
/Jan
Hey everybody, I know this is an OLD thread, but there is a way to do this.
Go to /Umbraco/umbraco.aspx and paste in the follow code just before the doc type:
Where properties is your default section alias.
Then go to the lines 190 and 202 and substitute DefaultApp with DefaultAppTmp.
You can also just search for DefaultApp and replace it with DefaultAppTmp and done.
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