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Customizable Per-Person Homepages

There is currently a field on People called Homepage.  It determines what happens when you click the big SHOTGUN button in the upper left corner.  Right now, you can only give it four options: My Tasks, Inbox, Custome Home, or Welcome to Shotgun.  It would be great if you could customize this field to use any other page on Shotgun.

This allows the Shotgun admins to set up home pages separately for Artists, Producers, Department Leads, and whoever else might need a more customized homepage without having a bunch of tabs on the Custom Home page.  Additionally, in our case, we have projects here which vary wildly in how they are implemented, and having only one option for the Homepage can start causing conflicts between productions.

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    Brendan Abel

    It would be great if each user could save their own changes as well, like sorting, extra columns, etc.  But still allow us to push out changes, much like we are able to do with project pages.

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    Ben Hadden

    Hey Brendan,

    To handle that case, I think we'll first allow people to save any page as their own, then make that new page their home page. That would mean you could no longer push our changes, though. The majority of people who wanted to make changes to their page didn't want others to be able to overwrite those changes, which is why we'll go with this approach in v1. How would that work for you guys?

    For everyone else, we'll be starting this soon and I'll post more details on the design when we do!

     

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    Ben Hadden

    This is coming out tomorrow! You'll now be able to set any page as your home page in one of these two ways:

    1. From the page settings menu of any page you want to make your Home Page
    2. From your account settings

    Admins will also be able to set Home Pages for other users by editing their "Home Page" field on any People page.

    Hope you enjoy it.

    Cheers,
    Ben

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    Jacob Medendorp

    Huzzah!

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    Hasiel Hassan Alvarez Zavala

    This feature is great, but one thing that don't work is to set a HumanUser detail page as your home page.
    This could be a really useful, we can configure that page really well and show the user more info for it that the My Tasks or My Notes.

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