cPanel 94 and Welcome to your new hosting account

[andrewmoras]

Hey,

It looks like cPanel 94 made a few changes to the UI for clients and changed the default order for the Sections (Email is before Files and Databases) and added a Welcome section with a new welcome screen that allows you to create an email account and pushing the "Site Publisher" in front. See attached screenshot.

As a hoster I don't want that and I'd like to remove the welcome screen and change back the order of the sections, like it was before, in cPanel 94. Anyone knows if it's possible to do this as I'm unable to find where to customise that.

Cheers!

 

[cPRex]

Hey there! We've never actually assigned an order on that page as it can be moved around by dragging and rearranging the sections. It's possible they may have reset at some point, but each user gets their own file controlling this.

As far as the welcome screen, I do see that on new installations but I wasn't able to reproduce the issue when upgrading from 92 to 94 on two test machines just now. You can suppress this option with the following command:

uapi --user=username NVData set names=xmainwelcomedismissed xmainwelcomedismissed=1

 

[andrewmoras]

Hey there! We've never actually assigned an order on that page as it can be moved around by dragging and rearranging the sections. It's possible they may have reset at some point, but each user gets their own file controlling this.

Hey cPRex,

This happens on a fresh installation of cPanel 94, not during an install/upgrade so I thought this might be default for the new version. Ideally, I wouldn't want to see the order change for new customers along with old ones.

As far as the welcome screen, I do see that on new installations but I wasn't able to reproduce the issue when upgrading from 92 to 94 on two test machines just now. You can suppress this option with the following command:

uapi --user=username NVData set names=xmainwelcomedismissed xmainwelcomedismissed=1

This means that we'd need to build an extra hook that would run each time a new account is created. Wouldn't it be more simple that there's a control in WHM to enable/disable the "Welcome" section completely rather than mucking around with a post provisioning hook especially because it pushes some tools that are not really useful for everyone?

Thanks!

A

 

[ffeingol]

@cPRex That's not really going to work: The cPanel Interface | cPanel & WHM Documentation " Click your username and then click Reset Page Settings to bring the Welcome panel back."

The "build a website" part really makes me nervous. We want nothing to do with the WordPress Toolkit.

Since we don't have a system running 94/Current, what does that link to?

 

[cPRex]

@ffeingol and @andrewmoras - I would expect this to happen on a new installation, so that actually more makes sense to me when I thought this was happening as part of a server update.

The "build a website" link doesn't link to WordPress Toolkit, but goes to the Site Publisherwhich is outlined here:

Site Publisher | cPanel & WHM Documentation

This interface enables you to quickly create a simple website, even if you have never created a website before.

docs.cpanel.net

 

[ffeingol]

And what does it do if Site Publisher is disabled? Guess I'll have to fire up a V94/Current to see.

 

[cPRex]

I created a version 94 server, disabled the Site Publisher option globally, created a new cPanel account, and it only displays the email option there:

 

[ffeingol]

Awesome sauce! That was what I hoped it would do. Now I'll put the feature request in to allow us to customize the welcome section.

 

[cPRex]

Awesome - thanks for doing that!

 

[andrewmoras]

Awesome sauce! That was what I hoped it would do. Now I'll put the feature request in to allow us to customize the welcome section.

Can you please link it in here as well so that we can up vote it as well? Personally I'd like to be able to disable it completely because it messes up with our kb articles and everything that we've built with videos and screenshots.

 

[sneader]

I don't mind having Site Publisher available, but I do not want to PUSH people to use it! This is so confusing. C'mon, cPanel. Give us a way to disable this thing.

- Scott

 

[kohp]

can someone tell how to upgrade to the 94 version please from 92 and whether disruption would be with current customs settings / apps/ configurations ?

 

[cPRex]

@kohp - you would need to set your update version to Current in order to get version 94:

Downloads | cPanel, Inc.

layer1.cpanel.net

You can change your tier in WHM >> Update Preferences.

If you're on the Release tier you should be receiving 94 within a few weeks, and it will update automatically at that time.

 

[andrewmoras]

I assume that feature requests are being moderated as nothing shows up as "New" and the oldest feature request is 9 days old.

@ffeingol : Can you please confirm that you have submitted the feature request?

Thanks,

A

 

[ffeingol]

I'm just been to busy to get one in. I'll get it later today / tomorrow and then post the link.

 

[cPRex]

Feature requests do get moderated for spam, but we try and get those approved pretty quick.

 

[andrewmoras]

I'm just been to busy to get one in. I'll get it later today / tomorrow and then post the link.

Sounds good! If you want me to submit it, just shout as I'd like to have some control over what customers see in cPanel.

Cheers!

A

 

[ffeingol]

Finally found some time: https://features.cpanel.net/topic/22027-customizaton-of-the-new-welcome-panel

 

[cPRex]

Looks like it's waiting on approval, but I'll see if I can move that along.......................

 

[andrewmoras]

Looks like it's waiting on approval, but I'll see if I can move that along.......................

Thanks @cPRex! It will probably pick up whenever cPanel v94 drops into RELEASE since no one uses CURRENT or EDGE in production. As @ffeingol said, we need some control for it

Cheers!