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Title: How to get rid of "Get started by opening a dashboard, report or story!"
Post by: a3nCognosUser on 07 Sep 2018 12:32:50 PM
Hi Team, does anyone know how to get rid of the "Get started by opening a dashboard, report or story!" line on the default home page?

I would like to keep the Recents on the home page (that is useful) but get rid of the "Get started by opening a dashboard, report or story!" and also get rid of the "Quick reference". The samples mostly show how to replace the home page with a picture and some titles... I cannot find a list of all of the possible possible features to customize.

Thanks, Adrienne
Title: Re: How to get rid of "Get started by opening a dashboard, report or story!"
Post by: FixItNow on 19 Nov 2018 03:28:48 PM
There is an article on IBM's website for this.

https://community.ibm.com/community/user/businessanalytics/viewdocument/how-to-get-rid-of-get-started-by-o?CommunityKey=6b10df83-0b3c-4f92-8b1f-1fd80d0e7e58&tab=librarydocuments

It includes a link to a word document "Modify the ICA Welcome page.docx"

Discusses losing the Get Started message,  as well as the Getting Started section on the right.

HTH,
Paul
Title: Re: How to get rid of "Get started by opening a dashboard, report or story!"
Post by: mcguija on 27 Mar 2019 01:27:32 PM
Hi,

I have tried this method in the document by Syd.

I can't get it to work, almost like its caching.  The Quick Referenece will not go away, I got the words at top to go away but not consistantly.  I've even renamed the .js file to something else and it does not break it.

Can someone advise, I really need to remove the 3 items described in the document from my welcome page.

THanks
Jason
Title: Re: How to get rid of "Get started by opening a dashboard, report or story!"
Post by: MFGF on 28 Mar 2019 11:43:13 AM
Quote from: mcguija on 27 Mar 2019 01:27:32 PM
Hi,

I have tried this method in the document by Syd.

I can't get it to work, almost like its caching.  The Quick Referenece will not go away, I got the words at top to go away but not consistantly.  I've even renamed the .js file to something else and it does not break it.

Can someone advise, I really need to remove the 3 items described in the document from my welcome page.

THanks
Jason

How are you accessing the Cognos Analytics instance - via the built-in servlet gateway or via a web server? If the latter, have you tried bouncing the web server or flushing its cache?

Cheers!

MF.
Title: Re: How to get rid of "Get started by opening a dashboard, report or story!"
Post by: TomCognos on 28 Mar 2019 11:03:35 PM
I have successfully got this to work.

Try starting your browser on the server in incognito mode or inprivate.

Also F12 can bring up the browser console and there are a few icons under network (IE) that you can use to clear cache.

But also note, i had the cache issue as well. Was tearing my hair out. We do a weekly server reboot and eventually the change appeared.