What are the steps for changing the landing page on a project? We have discontinued the current landing page and I want to replace it with a new one but can't find the setting. Thanks !
What are the steps for changing the landing page on a project? We have discontinued the current landing page and I want to replace it with a new one but can't find the setting. Thanks !
Hi Julie,
I'm assuming that you are talking about the Landing page which shows the links to the various reports (Service Costing report)
If this is the case, then what you have to do is, In the tables, change search to "Hidden Tables"
In that, if you click on the Params table, what this table shows is the name of the Report which is configured as the "Landing Page". Here, you'll have to replace the name of the existing report with what you have created.
Here's the link to the article which explains it in more detail.
https://tbmcouncil.jiveon.com/message/5834?commentID=5834#comment-5834
Let me know if it helps.
Regards
Varghese
Thanks Varghese. This did not work for us in my scenario 3 above and hence engineering and support asked us to use the workaround. The system did not behave as expected outside my working session or for the other support/engineering users too. The workaround worked. Julie, if this works great!
Thank you all so much for the information !!
I have changed it in the params location and will check it in this afternoon at our normal time to see if it works. If that doesn't work, I will use the work around that Yamini suggested.
Update: Well guys, it didn't work with either fix. It seems like the program is opening a blank report with the same name as my landing page report. I have searched and there is only one report titled Business Management Reporting (and it's my new report with content). Any ideas on how to fix the home report or should I just go ahead and open a ticket for the programmers to assist?
Hi Julie, could you show me a screenshot of what you have entered in the Params table ?
This is what I have in params table. Thanks
Oh, I wanted to mention that this report was originally named something else and Business Management Reporting is an alias. Do you think that has anything to do with it? It's called Business Management Reporting in the reporting section rather than the original report name.
Hi Julie,
Hmm, I need you to do something for me. In the Report which you have created, which you want to put up as the new Landing page, I want you to right click on say a table, and select the option called "Show API URL", and in that you would get a URL somewhat similiar to as below:
Earlier, before you modifed the Params table, it would have been like this:
As you can see above, what is there in the Params table, is what is there at the end of the URL.
Varghese
It shows the original report name in the url, so I changed the params table to that and it still didn't work. I may just create a new report with the title I want it to have, and copy the content from this report into that one. Do you think that would fix it? That takes the alias out of the picture.
Try that Julie and make sure as Verghese mentioned the Params table is updated with API URL endpoint.
Hi Julie,
Could you show me the screenshot of the URL ? Normally, it might be a case of a typo in the Params table which may be causing this.
Varghese
It's pretty long but this is the url. We have 2 projects in our Apptio system so I'm wondering if I need to add the project name so it knows which project to use for the home page.
Varghese,
Thank you so much ! I Change the parms to match the report name in the url and it's working great. I appreciate you sharing your wisdom !!
Changing the Params table based on the API URL worked for me.
Hi Julie, yup go-ahead and raise a ticket probably they can so the changes from the back-end. The work around worked for me. As a last try create a new report, copy the content of "Business Management Reporting", save it. Now delete "Business Management Reporting" check in the changes and see what happens.
BTW I also noticed some strange behavior while doing my changes. Before check-in it works like the way I want however after check-in the changes dint get reflected. Not sure anyone else faced this though.
Hi Julie, I am assuming your question is about changing the landing page/report for Projects object correct?
if that is the question here are the three scenarios where I had to change the landing report page for objects.
1. Scenario 1 - Did not need the landing page report so deleted it. The next available one in the report collections became my landing page which was inline with my requirement.
2. Scenario 2 - Needed to move the report, had to work around it. In report collections for Project object deselect "Show in Navigation" and click on the x mark next to it. This will delete the report from the collection. I copied the report code for the removed report and gave it a new name and saved it, added to the collection using Report --> Assign to collections; then goto Project --> Report Collections and add it to "Show in Navigation" - It worked
3. Scenario 3 - Wanted to remove the landing page in Vendor Insights and was not successful in any way. Reached out to Apptio support who also involved engineering team to change the endpoint landing page for the vendor insight tool in Frontdoor and it did not work for them too. Because of the way the reports are structured on the DB side, had to edit the landing report of my page by coping the desired report code to the default Apptio landing report and save it. Before that have created the copy of the Apptio default landing page report for reference/future purposes.
Hope this helps!
Thanks