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How can I change the Admin landing page to the Orders tab instead of Dashboard? The Dashboard maybe useful to some, but 99 out of 100 times we are dealing with orders.
Fewer clicks = save money.
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I'm not sure that's a good idea. The dashboard can be customized to show pertinent information using the three Content Columns and also serves as a place for license notifications and BV Commerce news.
How do you normally get to the admin? If you click the "Go To Admin" link in the top-right corner of your site (on the front end) then you could just modify that link to go to the orders page. If you want to go low-tech you could always bookmark the orders page or set it as your browser's homepage. |
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I don't want to get rid of the Dashboard, just don't want to land there. Yes, just navigating from the "Go To Admin" link is what I'm trying to do. I would have thought changing the couple of line items in the AdminPanel.ascx file to BVAdmin/Orders/Default.aspx from BVAdmin/Default.aspx would have done the trick, but not so. Sorry, Aaron, I'm bad at this.
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No worries, Tom! Actually you were very close. The code change does happen in the AdminPanel control, but the URL is set in the code-behind file (i.e. AdminPanel.ascx.vb). If you open that file and go to line 24 you'll see where the URL is set. FYI - when making changes to code we always like to comment them in a very obvious and consistent way across a site so it's easy to identify customizations down the road. We like to retain the original code (or code block) in a commented-out section and then add the changed code rather than simply changing the code. This makes it easier in the future when you look back at this code to see what was changed and better understand why it was changed. Here's an example of how we would make this change: Code:
' <tkatch> Change admin link to go to Orders page instead of Dashboard
'Me.lnkGoToAdmin.NavigateUrl = Page.ResolveUrl("~/") & "BVAdmin/Default.aspx"
Me.lnkGoToAdmin.NavigateUrl = Page.ResolveUrl("~/") & "BVAdmin/Orders/Default.aspx"
' </tkatch>
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I must be putting this in the wrong file since the link destination doesn't change for me. I'm in BVModules>Controls>AdminPanel.ascx.vb. Is this right? Just replace: Me.lnkGoToAdmin.NavigateUrl = Page.ResolveUrl("~/") & "BVAdmin/Default.aspx" with the code above? Edited by user Thursday, October 24, 2013 9:44:10 AM(UTC)
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Must be pulling info from somewhere else since it's still linking to /bvadmin/default.aspx. TKatch attached the following image(s):  GoToAdmin.gif (134kb) downloaded 6 time(s).You cannot view/download attachments. Try to login or register.
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Are you sure that you're editing the right set of files on the server? |
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All this time I was trying to modify the WWW-2013 files when I should have been modifying the WWW files. No wonder...
Okay, thanks Aaron.
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Originally Posted by: TKatch  All this time I was trying to modify the WWW-2013 files when I should have been modifying the WWW files. No wonder... Yeah, I thought you might be editing the staging site rather than the live one. |
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