How to make changes to the Horizon VIew Portal Page

The Horizon View Portal Page is the main page when you go to your Horizon View Connection Server or VIP web address on your web browser.

HTTPS:\\Connection Server or VIP

There are a few reasons why you might want to make changes to the Horizon View Portal page. You can make the following changes to the Horizon View Portal Page:

• Hide the HTML Access Icon
• Hide the View Client Icon
• Set a custom URL for downloading the Horizon Client
• Set custom links to a specific Horizon Client Version.

To Customize the portal page do the following:

1. Log into one of your Horizon View Connection Servers and go to C:\ProgramData\VMware\VDM\portal\ and open Portal-links-html-access.properties in a text editor. 
2. Set the configuration properties based on your desired configuration. 
Options you can configure:



Options	Property Settings
Disable HTML Access	Enable.webclient=false If this option is set to false but the enable.download option is set to true, the user is taken to a Web page for downloading the native Horizon Client installer. If both options are set to false, the user sees the following message: "Contact your local administrator for instructions on accessing this Connection Server."
Disable downloading Horizon Client	enable.download=false If this option is set to false but the enable.webclient option is set to true, the user is taken to the HTML Access login Web page. If both options are set to false, the user sees the following message: "Contact your local administrator for instructions on accessing this Connection Server."
Change URL of the web page for downloading Horizon Client	link.download=https://url-of-web-server Use this property if you plan to create your own web page.
Create links for specific installers	The following examples show full URLs, but you can use relative URLs if you place the installer files in the downloads directory, which is under the C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\broker\webapps\ directory on View Connection Server, as described in the next step. 32-bit Windows installer: link.win32=https://server/downloads/VMware-Horizon-Client.exe 64-bit Windows installer: link.win64=https://server/downloads/VMware-Horizon-Client.exe Linux installer: link.linux=https://server/downloads/VMware-Horizon-Client.tar.gz Mac OS X installer: link.mac=https://server/downloads/VMware-Horizon-Client.dmg iOS installer: link.ios=https://server/downloads/VMware-Horizon-Client-iPhoneOS.zip Android installer: link.android=https://server/downloads/VMware-Horizon-Client-AndroidOS.apk Installer for an unknown OS (for example, you could use this property for the Chrome client installer): link.unknown=https://server/downloads/VMware-Horizon-Client-AndroidOS-arm-ARC.apk
Chnage URL for the help link in the login page	link.help By default, this link points to a help system hosted on the VMware Web site. The Help link appears at the bottom of the login page.



3. To complete the changes you have to restart the VMware view web component service.

Below is the default file configuration:

# Configure whether download page is accessible
enable.download=true
# Configure whether web client page is accessible
enable.webclient=true
# Configure the download page's URL address
link.download=https://www.vmware.com/go/viewclients
# Configure the help page's URL address
link.help=https://www.vmware.com/support/viewclients/doc/viewclients_pubs.html
# Links of view clients installers on different platforms
link.win32=https://www.vmware.com/go/viewclients#win32
link.win64=https://www.vmware.com/go/viewclients#win64
link.linux=https://www.vmware.com/go/viewclients#linux
link.mac=https://www.vmware.com/go/viewclients#mac
link.ios=https://www.vmware.com/go/viewclients#ios
link.android=https://www.vmware.com/go/viewclients#android
link.unknown=https://www.vmware.com