title: How to reset customization of default home view in IBM Cognos 11.0.5 to default welcome page
body: <p>While testing customization of Cognos 11.0.5 I've tried to make a dashboard the default home page following the steps in IBM knowledge center <a href="https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ag_manage.doc/c_mng_cust_manage.html#cust_mng_th_rext" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Here</a></p>
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  <p>On the Views tab of the Managing &gt; Customization slide-out panel, click next to the default home view. You can now browse for a dashboard or report to be the default home view, or you can select a view in the list of home views to be the default home view for all users.</p>
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  <p>It worked well, but I made a dire mistake of replacing the selected dashboard with a newer developed version (copy-to --&gt; overwrite), hence I think the default view is pointing to a no-longer-existing object (different new ID)</p>
  <p>Cognos is now throwing error after sign-in that home page cannot be retrieved. I have been able to access it back using URL &lt;webserver_name&gt;:&lt;port_number&gt;/bi/?factoryMode=true</p>
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/PjM0O.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">error screenshot</a>
  BUT what I'm struggling with is setting the default home page in &quot;<strong>View</strong>&quot; tab of the Managing &gt; Customization back to home or another dashboard, instead, it is now BLANK with no settings to adjust neither &quot;home page&quot; nor &quot;sign-in page&quot; shows up!</p>
  <p>I've tried to apply the default &quot;IBM&quot; theme again, restarting Cognos application but no go. the settings seem vanished in the &quot;View&quot; tab! Is there any way to reset the incorrect settings in the content server or the configuration manager?</p>
  <p><strong>Update</strong>: found settings under \ibm\cognos\analytics\configuration\data\flipper\config\global<br />
  That has the home page pointing configuration for the dispatcher to the perspective but still missing the &quot;Views&quot; settings from UI, looks it would require product support.</p>