InfoView My Favorite Folder - As Link

[Former Member]

Hi,

From any external web page, do we have any link which directly takes to Infoview My favorite folder?

I believe we can use "open Document" syntax to open reports from external application, but not to folders.

Is there any other way, to connect from web Page to "My Favorites" folder directly?

Our environment - BO XI 3.1 SP2.

Thanks

Jai

[joshua_kuhn · Accepted solution]

Log into InfoView as any user.

click the Preferences link in the top right corner.

In the "InfoView Start Page" section, change the radio button from 'Home' to 'Favorites'.

InfoView should now start in the user's Favorites folder whenever they log into InfoView. Keep in mind, this is a per-user setting. ie, each user that wants this will need to have this radio button set in their Preferences.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Joshua.

Can we set this option globally to view "My Favorites" as default for all users in BO box, instead users have to login and set in their preference?

Thanks

Jai

[joshua_kuhn · Accepted solution]

There's no way to set this globally within the CMC. Essentially, you'd have to use the SDK to go through each user object and set the preferences. However there are a few posts on the forum about scripting it out which may help.

[Former Member]

Hi Jai,

You can customize the infoview home page to show your favorite folder. If you do so when you access infoview from external website, it will prompt for username and login and when you enter the credentials, it will take you by default to your favorite folder.

Regards,

Sanjay

[Former Member]

Thanks Sanjay.

Is this through Open Document or some other way? If it is by opendocument, I think the link from external web will open only a report not the entire folder.

Thanks

Jai

[joshua_kuhn]

No, opendocument syntax is used for opening reports directly. If you want to display an Enterprise folder, you'll need to log into InfoView, CMC or another custom built front end. However, the steps given above will allow a user to log directly into InfoView and have their favorites folder displayed immediately without having to navigate to it.