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For some use-cases the CiviCRM Dashboard is not a helpful home base. Many users find it disorienting if the available dashlets are not useful to them.

So my question is simple: How can the mysite.org/civicrm be set to a different default page?

For example, I would like mysite.org/civicrm to default instead to the page shown at mysite.org/civicrm/contact/search?reset=1 so that all menu links that point to "CiviCRM Home" would end up at /civicrm/contact/search?reset=1

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  • This really depends on the CMS.
    – Elin
    Mar 26, 2015 at 0:20

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Since this path is hard-coded into CiviCRM, the best way to override it is probably a redirect. You could achieve this:

Note that there are two paths you'd need to redirect from: /civicrm and /civicrm/dashboard as Civi treats the former as an alias of the latter and links do not consistently go to one or the other.

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  • Thank you @Coleman for explaining that there is no CiviCRM-specific way to change it. I will use a redirect.
    – LunkRat
    Mar 25, 2015 at 14:29
  • You're welcome. Also added a note about multiple paths pointing to the dashboard.
    – Coleman
    Mar 25, 2015 at 14:42
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    I ended up using drupal.org/project/redirect and I redirected both /civicrm and /civicrm/dashboard and it works perfectly. Thanks @Coleman
    – LunkRat
    Mar 25, 2015 at 20:21

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