USER AND SERVER CONFIGURATION
You can create as many welcome pages as you want. However, there is a limit to the number of welcome pages that will display in the Default Welcome Page menu in the desktop settings. This limit is approximately ten pages, depending on the character length of the welcome page titles. The limit only affects how many welcome pages appear in the desktop settings menu. All welcome pages will be deployed to the user's bookmarks, no matter how many there are.
Create and work on your corporate welcome page database locally, and then copy it to the server when you are finished. This keeps users from seeing your changes in progress, ensuring that they only see finished pages.
Designate a default welcome page for individual users by deploying it in an explicit policy, or for entire organizations by using organizational policies.
Tip To ensure that a custom welcome page is available to set as the default for users, create that page first to make sure it will be available for selection on the desktop settings menu.
Creating the welcome page database
1. From the Domino Administrator, choose File - Database - New.
2. In the Server field, select Local.
3. In the Title field, enter the name of the new database. The file name is entered by default, but you can modify it. The file name can be anything except BOOKMARK.NSF.
4. In the Template Server field select Local.
5. Click Show advanced templates.
6. Click the Bookmarks (R6) template.
7. Click OK.
Creating welcome pages
You create corporate welcome pages the same way you create them in the Notes client. For even more options and control over your welcome pages, open your welcome page database in the Domino Designer and run the "Toggle advanced configuration editor" agent.
When you finish working on welcome pages locally, copy the welcome page database to a server to make it available to users.
Deploying welcome pages using desktop settings
1. Open the welcome page database on the server.
2. From the Domino Administrator click the People & Groups tab.
3. From the menu, choose Create - Policy Settings - Desktop Settings.
4. From the Domino Administrator task bar, click the welcome page database and drag it to the Corporate Welcome Pages database field. This creates a database link.
5. (optional) From the Default Welcome Page menu, select a welcome page to appear automatically when users log in.
6. (optional) Click "Do not allow users to change their home page" to prevent users from creating or selecting a home page other than the default.
7. Click Save and Close.
Implement these desktop settings in one or more policies, and then assign them to users to finish deploying your custom welcome pages. The changes will deploy to users the next time they log in.
For more information on policies, see Organizational and explicit policies.
Modifying and redeploying welcome pages
Keep your local copy of the welcome page database, and use it to work on any changes you might want to make later. Once the changes to the local database are complete, save the database and copy it to the server again.
You will then need to go back into each of the desktop settings documents that point to the welcome page database and create new database links to the new version. Once this is complete, the changes will deploy to users the next time they log in.
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