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Directing Users to a Group View Upon Login

How to:

You can setup login so that when a user enters their ID and password they are automatically logged into a Group View of Dashboard or to a window where they can view the group views that are available to them (if there are multiple views).

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Procedure: How to Select a Group View Upon Login
  1. Back up the file /ibi/WebFOCUS76/worp/conf/bid-config.xml.
  2. Open bid-config.xml using a text editor.
  3. Search for the string “GoToPersonalViewOnLogin”. You will see the following code: 
    <internal-var name="GoToPersonalViewOnLogin" value="true"/>
  4. Change the value to “false” as shown in the following code: 
    <internal-var name="GoToPersonalViewOnLogin" value="false"/>
  5. Close and save bid-config.xml. After the setting is changed, the following login processing is enabled:
    • If the user is a member of a single group view, the user is automatically logged into that group view.
    • If the user is a member of multiple group views, the user is logged into a window displaying the group views available to them.
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