Creating and editing home pages

Public home pages are read-only pages that display information about project progress. You can access public home pages without logging in to IBM® Rational® Focal Point™.

Before you begin

To create home pages, you must be a workspace administrator.

About this task

Users who have public home pages are automatically logged out of Rational Focal Point whenever someone accesses the public home page. To avoid logging users off every time someone views their pages, create a user to be the owner of a dedicated public home page.

To create a public home page:

Procedure

  1. Enable the public home page option:
    1. Click Application > Data Access.
    2. Set the Public Home Page Option attribute to Enable.
    3. Click Save.
  2. Create a dedicated public home page user who has access to the relevant views:
    1. Create a user who has the regular user access type.
    2. Enable the user to access all the views that are displayed on the public home page.
    3. Add the user as a member in the workspace that is used for the public home page. Set the user access type in the workspace to Workspace Administrator.
      Note: To make a home page public, the user must have workspace administrator access in the corresponding workspace.
  3. Create a home page for the public home page user, and make it public:
    1. Log in with the credentials of the public home page user, and open the workspace in which to create the public home page view.
    2. Click Preferences > My home settings.
    3. Edit the "My home settings" page by adding views and other windows to the home page.
    4. Select Enable the Public Home page.
    5. Right-click Public Home Page URL and select Copy Shortcut. Paste the URL to another Web browser window. Make the URL available to other users so that they can access the home page. For example, you might post the URL on the internal Web site of your organization.
    6. To save your home page settings, click OK.
  4. Set the access level for the public home page user:
    1. Log out as the public home page user, and log in with your normal workspace administrator credentials.
    2. Select the public home page user by clicking User > Manage Users.
    3. Select Read-Only as the access attribute.
    4. Click Save.
  5. Optional: To edit a public home page:
    1. Click Members > Members and select the public home page user.
    2. Edit the My View and My Home attributes of the user, and click Save.
    3. Review the changes on the public home page.
      Note:
      • The URL is buffered for 1 minute. If you enable a home page, enter its URL in a Web browser, and then disable the page, the URL is updated in 1 minute.
      • If the home page displays a view that uses filters, the filters affect the information that is displayed on the home page.

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