Looking for ideas to customize LL login page

I am looking for any ideas as to how to customize the llglogin.html page in 9.5 SP1. We want to provide a customized message to users when the system is going to be down. I can customize this html page with no problems, the issue is in production we can't change this without putting in a change request. On development, we used a call to grab & insert the contents of another HTML page, then found out changing this other HTML page would also require a change request. Back to the drawing board...I thought about using the newsticker functionality (which would be ideal with expiration dates), but I'm not sure how to include the output of it in the llglogin.html page before the user has logged in.Any ideas or suggestions?Thanks,Jeff

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Donna Nalls

Hi Jeff,Here is something simple that i just tested (because my life is pitiful, i have nothing else to do on a holiday).If you create a System Message (from the LL Admin page), these are stored in the opentext.ini file under [News] section...then, you could put something like the attached code snippet on the llglogin.html file to display them.You might even be able to get fancy and format the data and call the news ticker, as well.....One caveat: i believe system news will ge displayed throughout the system...however, it sounds like that might not be a bad thing for your scenario!!!best of luck,Donna

Jeff_Brown_(G*_ECM_Champ)

Hi Donna,Thanks! That was a great idea and it has the functionality we wanted. I'm having one of our developers wrap it in some style sheet tags to make it stand out on the login page.Jeff

Donna Nalls

Hi Jeff,Glad that worked out for you -- i forgot to put the "this code has not been tested" disclaimer...make sure that you test it well and tweak, where necessary...i did not test it if there are not system messages, etc......best,donna

Greg_Griffiths_(ggriffiths_-_(deleted))

If you have turned Livelink itself off then the user will simply get an error rather than the page as the WebLingo requires the LL Server to be running for it to be processed.You may be able to do this by putting a webserver / DNS redirect in so that users get taken to a holding page on the server which is a simple HTML page.