Defining Home Pages with a Text Editor
Define a Home Page
Note: In addition to using the information in this topic, you can use the Home Page Editor to develop your home pages. For information, see Home Page Editor: Overview.
To define a new home page, load the Smart Client, and use the Views tab to load the Archibus Processes (afm_processes) table and add a new entry. If you wish to see the existing entries, use the row filter to show just the AbDashboardPageNavigation entries.
Within your new entry, add these values:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Application | You can use any application, but AbDashboardPageNavigation is the conventional choice. |
| Process or Role | You can use any name, but the convention is to begin with "Home Page - " |
| Title | Enter the text to display on the tab for the home page. The user profile menu also uses this text in its list of the user's home pages. |
| Process Type | The Process Type should be "Web Page Navigator". This value indicates that this Archibus Processes (afm_processes) table entry is a home page with a descriptor that describes the rows and panels of content on that page. |
| License Level | Add the license level that describes the views on this page depending on whether the page is intended for self service users, workflow process users, analysis users, or process owners. For home pages, this is informational only. Licensing control is handled separately. |
| Dashboard View | The Dashboard View name should be the .xml page descriptor. See Adding a Home Page Descriptor |
There are some other options for home pages:
- Providing Multiple Home Pages. If you assign more than one Home Page process to a user's role, the other pages will also appear on the user's drop down. The user will then be able to switch between pages. Typically, users will have only one home page assigned to them -- their "home page" -- since they can do almost all of their work from just one page. Business process owners are usually the only users with multiple home pages so they can switch between the interfaces intended for each of the roles within the organization that they support. These multiple home pages area available from the user's profile menu.
- The Applications Page. The "Applications" home page process is a special one. The Applications home page lets users drill into all of the Navigator applications, processes, and tasks assigned to their role.