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AngelaIp
Ideator I
6 years ago
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How to pin TOC by default in Innovator 12?

Hi community, When users login to Innovator 12 the first time, they only get a huge white welcome page with deactivated TOC. This is confusing, as people may think Innovator is not working. I remem...
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Version 12
  • christopher_gillis's avatar
    christopher_gillis
    6 years ago

    Hi Angela,

    It took a look at this and found that the preferences for new users are basically copies of the World preference. Because of this, the default values for the properties like core_toc_pinned are pulled from the World preference and not from the properties on the ItemType. I've filed an issue internally to look into changing how this works in the future. For now, I did find a workaround while looking into this.

    I was able to have the TOC open by default for all my new users by setting the core_toc_pinned flag on this World preference (found under TOC > Administration > Preferences). In order to actually set this value, I also needed to edit the Core_GlobalLayout Form to add a field for core_toc_pinned. Once I did that, the TOC opened when I signed in as a new user.

    Keep in mind that this default value will only be set if the User doesn't already have a Preference item in the database. In addition to this, you may need to do a one-time AML update to force this value for any existing Preferences.

    Chris

    Christopher Gillis

    Aras Labs Software Engineer

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christopher_gillis
New Member
6 years ago

Hi Angela,

It took a look at this and found that the preferences for new users are basically copies of the World preference. Because of this, the default values for the properties like core_toc_pinned are pulled from the World preference and not from the properties on the ItemType. I've filed an issue internally to look into changing how this works in the future. For now, I did find a workaround while looking into this.

I was able to have the TOC open by default for all my new users by setting the core_toc_pinned flag on this World preference (found under TOC > Administration > Preferences). In order to actually set this value, I also needed to edit the Core_GlobalLayout Form to add a field for core_toc_pinned. Once I did that, the TOC opened when I signed in as a new user.

Keep in mind that this default value will only be set if the User doesn't already have a Preference item in the database. In addition to this, you may need to do a one-time AML update to force this value for any existing Preferences.

Chris

Christopher Gillis

Aras Labs Software Engineer

  • AngelaIp's avatar
    AngelaIp
    Ideator I
    6 years ago

    Hi Chris,

    I am happy that I haven´t tried to fix this one on codetree level yet. Would have been a complete waste of time.

    Thanks Chris for your nice and simple solution! From my POV it´s completely sufficient to set the value in the World preference instead of the default value in the ItemType. I don´t assume existing preferences should be a problem, cause people normally learn very quickly.

    It´s more a psychological issue that affects admins more than regular users (cause users will get some training anyway).
    It makes you feel like everything is OK if you don't face a white out the first time you try something new [emoticon:0f36700dfeb3494fa10d47dd9e1f90a1]. 

    I assume these settings were deliberately chosen by the Aras design team. Is far as I have heard we will some day get some more advanced welcome page options.

    But I am happy that this modification can be done so easy. This way we can also remove it quite simple once we use a start page.