Default Home Page route of Role not working

manasan · December 18, 2020, 5:16am

I created a custom Role for a custom DocType named “Repair”. The “User-A” assigned with this Custom Role ONLY, have complete access to this DocType. He is able to view the List of the DocType by typing the URL directly. What I am trying to achieve is to redirect the User with this Role to the route “/desk#List/Repair/List” by default after logging in, I tried to set the home page route in the Custom Role settings but it is redirecting to the “/desk”. I tried clearing the bench cache , browser cache,reloading the nginx and supervisorctl but no change.

SamSam · April 16, 2022, 12:15pm

Anyone was able to solve this? Also what if a same user has two Roles and each a different home page path, which one will it take?

I wonder why the homepage path is even part of “Role” setting, it would make more sense to be part of “User” instead, no? User to Role relationship is 1-to-many.

SamSam · April 17, 2022, 9:58am

Were you able to solve this? @manasan

Jiri_Sir · June 23, 2023, 8:23am

Hello @SamSam,
about the “two Roles and each have diff home_page”.
In code we can see this:

github.com

frappe/frappe/blob/8a37d6d2786a35c4b6231aa029ce338790f1ecfe/frappe/website/utils.py#L101C1-L104C11


      
          			for role in frappe.get_roles():
          				home_page = frappe.db.get_value("Role", role, "home_page")
          				if home_page:
          					break

get_roles function is this:

github.com

frappe/frappe/blob/8a37d6d2786a35c4b6231aa029ce338790f1ecfe/frappe/permissions.py#L420


      
          
          

          
def get_roles(user=None, with_standard=True):
          	"""get roles of current user"""
          	if not user:
          		user = frappe.session.user
          
          
	if user == "Guest" or not user:
          		return ["Guest"]
          
          
	def get():
          		if user == "Administrator":
          			return frappe.get_all("Role", pluck="name")  # return all available roles
          		else:
          			table = DocType("Has Role")
          			roles = (
          				frappe.qb.from_(table)
          				.where(
          					(table.parenttype == "User") & (table.parent == user) & (table.role.notin(["All", "Guest"]))
          				)
          				.select(table.role)

It means: It takes home_page from the first role (if the home_page is defined here) from the list of the roles. These roles are sort by random (no order in query), I think. Maybe I am wrong about default ordering.

The result is, it is random selection of the home_page, unfortunately.

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