Creating a public home page

Public home pages can be accessed without logging in to Rational® Focal Point™. You can display information about your current project progress on a public home page.

About this task

Note: Users with public home pages are automatically logged out of Rational Focal Point whenever the public home page is accessed. Instead of making a user's home page public, create a dedicated public home page user.

To create a public home page:

Procedure

  1. Enable the public home page option:
    1. Click Application > Data Access.
    2. Set the Public Home Page Option attribute to Enable.
    3. Click Save.
  2. Create a dedicated public home page user who has access to relevant views:
    1. Create a new user that has the regular user access type.
    2. Enable the user to access all views that are displayed on the public home page.
    3. Add the user as a member in the workspace that is used for the public home page. Set the user access type in the workspace to Workspace Administrator.
      Note: To make a home page public, the user must have the workspace administrator access level in the corresponding workspace.
  3. Create a home page for the public home page user, and make it public:
    1. Log in with the public home page user's credentials, and open the workspace in which to create the public home page view.
    2. To edit the home page settings, click Preferences > My home settings.
    3. Edit My home settings page by adding views and other windows to the home page.
    4. Select Enable the Public Home page.
    5. Right-click and selectPublic Home Page URL > Copy Shortcut. Paste the URL to another web browser window, or make it available for other users by, for example, publishing it on your internal website.
    6. To save your home page settings, click OK.
  4. Set the access level for the public home page user:
    1. Log out of the public home page user, and log in with your normal workspace administrator credentials.
    2. Click User > Manage Users to select the public home page user.
    3. Select Read-Only as the access attribute.
    4. Click Save.

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