SharePoint

Set the SharePoint Welcome Page through code

By Praveen Modi ⋅ March 27, 2009 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment
Visited 1831 times, 8 so far today

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

You might end up with this requirement quite often to set your custom page as a welcome page for site/subsite instead of default.aspx provided by SharePoint.

Its quite a tedious job to set up default pages manually when you have more than 10 site/subsites. Its pretty easy to do it programmatically. Here is how:

public static void SetDefaultPage(SPWeb web, string pageName)
{
    if (PublishingWeb.IsPublishingWeb(web))
    {
    PublishingWeb publishingWeb = PublishingWeb.GetPublishingWeb(web); 

    //Get the file name
    SPFile welcomeFile = web.GetFile(pageName);
    //Assign the new filename to the DefaultPage property
    publishingWeb.DefaultPage = welcomeFile; 

    //Update the Publishing Web.
    publishingWeb.Update();
    }
} 

Remember to pass the full relative path to the pageName. For example, pageName should be "/Subsite/Pages/MyNewWelcome.aspx" if your welcome page resides in a Page library of the subsite.

Tags: Change the SharePoint Welcome page, Set SharePoint Welcome Page, Set the SharePoint Default Page Programmatically, Set the SharePoint Default Page through code, SharePoint