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Creating Custom Home Pages in MINT

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{{Note | Custom home pages have to be set on the server directly. Therefore, the [[Management Consulting Team|GICHD IM focal point]] needs to be contacted to perform such a change. This page contains details on the information to be collected beforehand.}}

== Creating a custom home page ==__NOEDITSECTION__

When logging in to MINT, by default a user sees the following home page (depending on the history, the sections ''Popular Resources'' and ''Recently Viewed Items'' can contain links to resources and objects in the MINT repository).

[[File:MINT_default_home_page.png|center|900px]]

However, the home page a user sees when logging in can be customized based on the '''role''' of the user. Possible landing pages include:

* <ul><li>A specific dashboard - this is useful if for example a group of users is interested in very specific indicators only and should not care about other objects in the repository. Setting the home page to a dashboard containing those indicators makes the relevant information available at a glance, without having to click around and find the relevant objects in a potentially long list or in nested folders.</li>* <li>A specific report - same as above, the relevant information can be captured in a report instead of a dashboard. It could also be useful to create a report that contains a list of available reports, so that the user logging in can see reports relevant for her or him at a glance.</li></ul>

In order to set a custom home page for specific users, the following steps are required:

<li>Determine the path to the report/dashboard that should be set as the home page. To do so, right-click on the dashboard/report and select '''Properties'''. The string under '''Path''' is the path to the object

[[File:MINT_dashboard_path_example.png|center|500px]]</li>

<li>Send all this information (role name, path) to your[[Management Consulting Team| GICHD IM focal point]].</li>

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== Creating tabbed home pages ==__NOEDITSECTION__

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