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Hi Timur,

You have correctly analyzed the current behavior.  And it is confusing.  In our implementation, 
we have implemented a user_home method that uses the "default_dashboard" to give the user 
a default dashboard.

Now the question is of course, should that be the default behavior for Horizon.  I would argue yes.
The default behavior will need to change, if the upcoming Information Architecture proposals
yield changes as I expect them to.  But there's no reason we couldn't fix this behavior now.

David


> From: Timur Sufiev [mailto:tsufiev at mirantis.com] 
> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 11:12 AM
> To: openstack at lists.openstack.org
> Cc: Ekaterina Fedorova
> Subject: [Openstack] [horizon] Weird behaviour of 'user_home' and 'default_dashboard" paramenters in HORIZON_CONFIG
>
> Hello there!
>
> So I specify following config lines:

> HORIZON_CONFIG['default_dashboard'] = 'murano'
> HORIZON_CONFIG['user_home'] = 'muranodashboard.views.get_user_home'
> HORIZON_CONFIG['dashboards'] += ('murano',)

> where get_user_home function is defined in muranodashboard/views.py:
> def get_user_home(user):
>   return horizon.get_dashboard('murano').get_absolute_url()
>
> and 'muranodashboard' itself is in the INSTALLED_APPS tuple.
>
> With all these things set I expect Horizon to show me Murano dashboard when I login to it, but instead it shows me the 'Admin' dashboard as usual. I've a bit of debugging and it seems that get_user_home from > /usr/share/openstack-dashboard/openstack_dashboard/views.py is called (Horizon installed on Ubuntu).
>
> I'm not quite sure whether it's a bug or something I haven't fully understood. What exactly I do not understand is:
> 1) how do I call my own get_user_home function?
> 2) in case 'user_home' works ok, why do need 'default_dashboard" parameter (that, in my opinion, does roughly the same)?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -- 
> Timur Sufiev