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11 Sep 2006
Go directly to site admin and skip the dashboard

This might be a small thing for most people, but I find it somewhat irritating to end up at the dashboard each time I want to go to the Site Administration. I click the Control Panel button, and the Dashboard appears, and I always click on Administration right away to go to the Site Administration.


Dashboard


Site Administration

Can I change this behavior? Of course you can, it's Community Server! Smile

All you have to do is open up your SiteUrls.config and find the following section:


	

		<!--
	

	

		// ControlPanel paths
	

	

		//
	

	

		-->
	

	

		<url name="controlpanel" location = "controlpanel" path="default.aspx" />

Change the path="default.aspx" to path="setup.aspx". Then save and close the file, and 'touch' your web.config. Next time you click on the Control Panel button, it will take you directly to the Site Administration.

I never really did like the Dashboard, since I believe the Site Admin gives a better overview than what the Dashboard does.

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Posted: Monday, September 11, 2006 4:13 PM by J-O Eriksson

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# September 11, 2006 2:00 PM

pamacs said:

The only problem is, that you will loose the Dashboard tab. If you click it, you will go to "setup.aspx" too, and no more to "default.aspx".
# September 11, 2006 3:04 PM

J-O Eriksson said:

Yes, I know. And there is probably some other way to do this in SiteURLs.config that might not have that side effect. In my case, I never use the Dashboard anyway. But If I need to go to it I could always type default.aspx in the browsers address bar.

# September 13, 2006 9:41 AM

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