It is easy to define the default homepage for a given doctype in a space.
Homepage Wizard
Most doctype add-ons provide a page wizard to create homepages for their doctypes.
This feature is helpful if you either need a document type within a space that has this homepage never created or if someone decided in the past to remove the generated homepage.
Creating a Homepage
Creating a new homepage for a given document type may occur more often than you think.
Suppose your team tracks the iterations with Iteration documents. For all teams these documents are stored in a central department space.
To create such an environment where each team has its own space, but have the iteration descriptions collected in a department space is a two-step adjustment of the team space.
- Set the department space as the delegate space of the component space
- Remove the homepage for iterations from the team space
When a team is starting a new iteration a new Iteration document is created and sent to its homepage. The new page will be stored on the delegate space's homepage where all iteration documents are collected.
If the team later decides to move the iteration descriptions back into the team space, it simply needs to create a homepage for it in their team space. Then move the iteration documents of that team to their new homepage. All new iteration documents are then stored per default to the homepage (if Send to Homepage is selected).
The homepage is created as a child to the current page. This should typically be the space homepage.
To create a new homepage start the page wizard and select the set the doctype is provided. You may filter by entering "Homepage" into the filter field.
Then select the homepage by selecting the document type.
Define Homepage
An existing homepage can be assigned for a given document type. This selection is defined per space.
Use the space property named Doctype Home. The value is a link to the existing page.
Once the space property is saved, every document of the given doctype is stored as a child page of the specified homepage.
