# Simple questions about customising the dash page

**URL:** <https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/simple-questions-about-customising-the-dash-page/3418>\
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**Created:** [April 11, 2024, 9:16am UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/simple-questions-about-customising-the-dash-page/3418 "2024-04-11T09:16:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![connorourke](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/discourse.openondemand.org/connorourke/32/2128_2.png) [@connorourke](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/connorourke)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 9:16am UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/simple-questions-about-customising-the-dash-page/3418/1 "2024-04-11T09:16:53Z")

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I am starting to try and customise the OOD dash.

I have created a dash.yml file in /etc/ood/config/ondemand.d/ which seems to be getting read.

I have added the following:

```auto
en:
  dashboard:
    welcome_html: |
      %{logo_img_tag}
      <p class="lead">Test message.</p>
    motd_title: "Message of the Day"

```

as per the `Change the Dashboard Tagline` in  
[https://osc.github.io/ood-documentation/latest/customizations.html](https://osc.github.io/ood-documentation/latest/customizations.html)

But when I restart the web server it still reads  
“OnDemand provides an integrated, single access point for all of your HPC resources.”

Is this not where it should be changed?

I have also tried including an image in

/etc/ood/config/apps/dashboard/views/layouts/\_footer.html.erb

![](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/var/www/ood/public/uos_logo_white_small.png)

but it is just being displayed as a small question mark, but the image is there as I am using it in the dashboard logo.

Any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong would be helpful!

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**Author:** ![connorourke](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/discourse.openondemand.org/connorourke/32/2128_2.png) [@connorourke](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/connorourke)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 9:23am UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/simple-questions-about-customising-the-dash-page/3418/2 "2024-04-11T09:23:48Z")

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Ah, ok - had an absolute path in the footer, if I changed it to

‘/public/my\_logo.png’ it now works.

Still not sure how to change the welcome message though.

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**Author:** ![connorourke](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/discourse.openondemand.org/connorourke/32/2128_2.png) [@connorourke](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/connorourke)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 9:51am UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/simple-questions-about-customising-the-dash-page/3418/3 "2024-04-11T09:51:13Z")

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Also found where to change the welcome text:

/var/www/ood/apps/sys/dashboard/config/locales/en.yml

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/osc/original/2X/b/bae70bd0ed39a3ae769c2108155f4cb3e9da8385.png) [@system](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2024, 9:51am UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/simple-questions-about-customising-the-dash-page/3418/4 "2024-10-08T09:51:40Z")

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