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Here's a neat tip from the product team devs I saw in the newsgroups a few months ago on how to change the default view in the Web Console in Operations Manager 2007. What prompted me to put this out here was a forum thread from REM-8 on a neat Web Console shortcut he came up with today (see HERE)

The Easy Way - This may work for the view you want to open. If it doesn't, you'll have to use the more involved way.

1. Find the Name of the View that you want to open first, ex. Active Alerts
2. Create a new shortcut that has the name of the desired initial view in it. http://MyWebConsoleWebServerName:51908/default.aspx?ViewName=Active Alerts
3. Open that Shortcut. If it doesn't take you to the correct view, then you'll have to try the second option.

The more involved way - This should always work for any view, but it's more complicated to setup

1. In the Tree View, find the View that you want to be your default View.
2. When you move your mouse pointer over that view in the Tree View, you should see something like JavaScript:onNodeClicked('AlertView', '8db1f5a7-f3f3-2646-6c6b-e34672f7ed98'). The first parameter is the ViewType. The last parameter to that function isa GUID. You'll need both of these
3. An easy way to get the ViewType and GUID is to copy them from theHTML source. You can right-click in the empty space below the treeview and select "View Source" to bring up the HTML source for the tree. From there,you can do a Find to find the View Name that you want to be your Default
4. page. Once you find the onNodeClicked code, you should be able to copy the ViewType and GUID that you need.
5. To make this work, you need to create a new shortcut to the WebConsole. The default shortcut should look like this: http://MyWebConsoleWebServerName:51908/default.aspx
6. To have the web console open the view of your choice, you need to add the two parameters we got in step 3 to the URL. We need to add the ViewID and ViewType parameters in the URL.

http://MyWebConsoleWebServerName:51908/default.aspx?ViewID=8db1f5a7-f3f3-2646-6c6b-e34672f7ed98&ViewType=AlertView