Enforce default layout and dashlets

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dpatri

Is there a way to enforce a different default layout, including specifying which dashlets to include? Right now the only dashlets that show up are the getting started and my tasks to do. I want to the user to be presented with a dashboard that is pre-configured with custom dashlets, without having to require the user to manually configure.

gavinc

No, not in the ideal way, you can pre-define which dashlets are present but these would be there permanently, so it depends on the flexibility you require.

You can override the config for the "default" layout and point it to your own custom JSP and in there manually add the dashlets you want to appear (copy and paste an existing layout JSP). So if you wanted a couple of dashlets there for every user this may be enough. To do this add the following config to your web-client-config-custom.xml file:

<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Dashboards">
   <dashboards>
      <layouts>
         <layout id="default" columns="1" column-length="5" image="/images/icons/layout_single_column.gif"
                  label-id="layout_single_label" description-id="layout_single_desc"
                  jsp="/jsp/extension/my-single-column.jsp" />
      </layouts>
   </dashboards>
</config>‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Alternatively, you could create your own custom layout as an additional option and educate your users that this is not a configurable. To do this simply use a unique id for the layout in the example above.