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Hi,

I want to customize civicrm dashboard for my CRM-maintainer (civicrm/dashboard). I followed the instructions on:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Customize+Built-in,+Profile,+Contribution+and+Event+Registration+Screens
but without success, civicrmdashboard keeps pointing to the original tpl-file on civicrm/templates/CRM/Contact/Page/View/Dashboard.tpl and ignores my customized dashboard.

I am especially puzzled, because I followed the same procedure with the user dashboard (civicrm/user) which is actually pointing to my customized UserDashboard.tpl as expected.

Somebody any suggestions on what I did overlook ?

Thanks, Rik

PS I am working on Drupal 6.13 and CiviCRM 2.2.7

Rik - No idea why that custom tpl doesn't work? Are you sure you've placed in in the correct relative tree path? Maybe also try clearing template cache (templates_c folder).

I three, four and five double checked that meanwhile. wait a moment jus because you insist .... sixt time ...

Oh dear, oh dear ... It was the right tree, but wrong name ....  Dashboard.tpl in stead of DashBoard.tpl. Now it's working. Thanks.

As a side note, there is a CiviCRM hook for modifying the 'home page' dashboard - which might even be a better approach for you:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/CiviCRM+hook+specification#CiviCRMhookspecification-hookcivicrmdashboard

Thanks again. I read 'This hook can be used to add content to the dashboard page'. But my challenge with civicrm is not 'to add content', but 'to remove content'. All those features  are too intimidating for me already, let it be for the person I am flattering to become crm-maintainer.