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An HTML Message can be displayed on the PhixFlow Home page. The home pages is displayed once the application has been loaded before the user has logged in.

Create HTML content

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This page is for administrators. It explains how to create a PhixFlow home screen.  

Overview

By default, PhixFlow does not display a home screen. This means that, when a user first opens PhixFlow, the screen behind the login window is blank. You can configure Phixflow to display a home screen behind the login window. You can:

• either display the standard home screen, which includes the PhixFlow logo, name and version
• or display the standard home screen with custom content, incuding formatted text and images. Images must be uploaded to PhixFlow.

If the space required by the text plus image exceeds the available space on the home screen, PhixFlow automatically adds scrollbars.

When you configure a home screen, it is displayed to all PhixFlow users when they are logging in.

How to Configure a Home Screen

Standard home screen

1. Go to System Configuration → General Settings → Home Screen Message HTML.
2. Just add a space???
3. Click

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With custom content

1. To upload any images that you require, go to the repository → Application → Images. Right-click and select Image Added Add; see Image for more details.
2. Go to System Configuration → General Settings → Home Screen Message HTML.
3. Enter the content that you want to appear on the home screen.  
4. Images can be referenced in the HTML if they are in the Tomcat/webapps/{phixflow instance}/images folder where PhixFlow is installed.
To test this create an example HTML file called "homeScreenHtml.html" saved in the location "c:\PhixFlow\PhixFlowHomeScreen" 
               <font size="12pt" color="red"><b>CenterView has been rebranded as PhixFlow</b></font>
               <br/>
               <img height="150" You can paste in or write HTML, or enter text and then use the toolbar to format the content.
5. To reference an image, use the relative path ../images/name. 
   For example <img height="100" src="../images/bigcorp-logo.jpg" />
6. Click

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Set location of HTML file in System Configuration

1. Set the System Configuration > General Settings tab - 'Home Screen Message HTML File' field. Specify the full path and file name of a file containing HTML text that will appear on the Home screen
   Specify the full path and file name. For the above example this would be set to "c:\PhixFlow\PhixFlowHomeScreen\homeScreen.html"

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When the PhixFlow Application is loaded the HTML will be displayed on the home screen.