How To: Customize the text on the Self-Service portal's Welcome page

Applies To:

GroupID 8 - Self-Service

Business Requirement:

I want to customize the text on the Self-Service portal’s Welcome page.

Solution:

For this, the following files are required (attached herewith):

• Resource file
• Strings file

Procedure:

1. Download the above mentioned files and open the Resource file with Notepad or Notepad++.
2. Copy the text you wish to change from the portal’s Welcome page and look it up in the Resource file.
3. Copy the entire value under the key as shown in the figure below:
   
   
4. Now open the Strings file with Notepad or Notepad++ and scroll it till the bottom.
5. Paste the copied text (key copied from the Resource file) between the two headers, as shown in the figure below:
   
   
6. In the ‘value’ tag paste the text you wish to display on the Self-Service portal’s Welcome page. It is as shown in the figure above.
7. Now place these edited files on the following location and you are done.
   C:\Program Files\Imanami\GroupID 8.0\SelfService\Inetpub\Portal_Name\Web\bin