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Hello everybody,

For our application of CiviCRM, the "dashboard" is not really useful. I would therefore like to replace the CiviCRM homepage with something else: e.g. the "Find Contacts" page.

I already took "Home" out of the CiviCRM menu. However, the link in the Drupal menu (where CiviCRM is hosted) and other redirects within CiviCRM take you to the "dashboard".

What can I do?

Thanks,
Denis

That hook could also be used to redirect?

I used this custom code for a certain site to redirect (users with a certain role) from the dashboard to a custom View instead:

// Users with a certain role get redirected to a custom page when attempt to access
// the civicrm home page
function XX_custom_init() {
  global $user;
  if (('civicrm/dashboard' == $_REQUEST['q'] ||
       'civicrm' == $_REQUEST['q'] )
      && in_array('adminuser',$user->roles)) {
    drupal_goto('civicrm/find_contacts');
  }
}
The page "civicrm/find_contacts" is a custom View using CiviCRM Views Integration.

Hi Dennis

We have exactly the same need to replace the dashboard with the 'find contacts' page. Did you try any of the suggestions above - we would be grateful if you could share what you did so that we can try the same approach.

Kevan