Update database home pages

Home page files for a database are stored in the database, and managed in MI:Admin with the Schema tool.  

When new or modified database home pages have been uploaded to the database in MI:Admin, the updated files must be copied (or "fetched") from the database to the MI:Viewer application server in order to make them available to MI:Viewer users. Users with system or database Admin privileges can do this from the Admin > General page in MI:Viewer.

To update the database home page files in MI:Viewer

1. In the MI:Viewer toolbar, click Admin.
2. On the General tab, under Home page files, click Re-fetch home page files.
3. All database home page files are copied from the database(s) into a subfolder in the MI:Viewer installation folder; in a default installation, this is:

C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mi\homepagefiles\<database key>

For example, the home page for the MI_Training database in a typical installation will be located in:

C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\MI\homepagefiles\MI_Training_11.0.0.

The structure of files and folders will be reproduced in the MI:Viewer folder when the home page is copied into the MI:Viewer. The folder is published as a standard web folder.

Note that any files that were previously in the homepagefiles subfolder will be deleted when the new files are copied in.

More information about home pages

The GRANTA MI:Viewer Home Page Author Guide describes how to create home page files for databases, profiles, and for the MI:Viewer application. This document can be accessed from the Help menu.