My Start Pages

My Start Pages is mostly end-user functionality, but it must first be enabled and setup to work in a way that suits your users’ needs. My Start Pages are stored on User Profiles, so general User Profile management actions will apply.

There are three aspects that you can control.

1. Access to My Start Page
• This is controlled by the Activity Grant to MyStartPageRuntime. Granting this allows a user to view and use a My Start Page.
2. Access to the My Start Pages overview page
• This is controlled by the Activity Grant to MyStartPageOverview. Granting this allows a user to see a list of all his/her My Start Pages and navigate to them. With the overview enabled, a user can also add pages from the list to the IEE Navigator.
3. Ability to edit My Start Pages
• This is controlled by the Presentation Object EE_MSP_EDIT. Granting this allows a user to import, create new, rename, delete and export My Start Pages from the overview page. It also allows a user to add, remove, edit and rearrange elements on a My Start Page.
• Only a user who has been granted this, and who is using an editable profile, will see the Padlock icon on a My Start Page and be able to unlock it for editing.

The table below summarizes the permissions and their effects.

Some usage scenarios

Here are some usage scenarios.

1. Enabling full My Start Pages functionality

   My Start Pages functionality is by default turned off, and must be enabled. To do this, grant items 1, 2 and 3 above. Users can now create any number of pages, and change the page's elements freely.

2. Pushing read-only My Start Pages

   Although My Start Pages are designed for users to create and modify their own pages, it might be sometimes useful to deliver pre-made read-only My Start Pages using Base Profiles. To do this,

   1. Login as an administrator and load the Base Profile that your users will use.
   2. Create any Saved Searches you intend to add to My Start Pages. Note that existing Saved Searches will have to be opened and saved again, since this adds some extra information that My Start Pages uses to show result counts.
   3. Similarly, create any Selections needed, and make sure that users also have access to Quick Reports and Search Domains and Search Domain Groups you intend to use.
   4. Create the My Start Pages, and add them to the Navigator or the Shortcut panel so that users can access them. If your users have Navigator or Shortcut items for the individual My Start Pages, you could hide the overview page as explained next.
   5. Log out, and the Base Profile will be saved with the My Start Pages you created, along with all Saved Searches, Selections etc. that it uses.
   6. Grant only item 1 above to your users.
3. Disabling new page creation

   If your users have some My Start Pages that they can edit but you want to disable the creation of new pages, you could disable the overview page and hide it. You should also add all the pages available to the user to the Navigator or Shortcuts. Grant items 1 and 3 above to your users.

Links

• My Start Pages (end user documentation)
• Manage User Profiles
• Grant, Revoke Activities
• Manage Presentation Object Security