{"id":918,"date":"2012-01-24T03:38:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T03:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/collaboriscom.wpengine.com\/?p=918"},"modified":"2022-01-04T20:09:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T20:09:00","slug":"updating-spweb-rootfolder-welcomepage-not-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/updating-spweb-rootfolder-welcomepage-not-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating SPWeb.RootFolder.WelcomePage not working!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently trying to programmatically set the default (welcome) page of a team site, but my changes weren&#8217;t taking effect. As it turns out, this code:<\/p>\n<p><!-- code formatted by http:\/\/manoli.net\/csharpformat\/ --><\/p>\n<pre class=\"csharpcode\">contextWeb.RootFolder.WelcomePage = rootFolder.Name + <span class=\"str\">\"\/\"<\/span> + wikiFileName;\r\ncontextWeb.RootFolder.Update();<\/pre>\n<p>Needs to be changed to work with a local copy of an SPFolder. I haven&#8217;t used reflector but, i am guessing that on the &#8216;getter&#8217; for SPWeb.RootFolder we are given a complete new instance every time. So the code now needs to be this &#8211; (thanks SharePoint):<\/p>\n<p><!-- code formatted by http:\/\/manoli.net\/csharpformat\/ --><\/p>\n<pre class=\"csharpcode\">SPFolder folder = context.Web.RootFolder;\r\nfolder.WelcomePage = rootFolder.Name + <span class=\"str\">\"\/\"<\/span> + wikiFileName;\r\nfolder.Update();<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently trying to programmatically set the default (welcome) page of a team site, but my changes weren&#8217;t taking effect. As it turns out, this code: contextWeb.RootFolder.WelcomePage = rootFolder.Name + &#8220;\/&#8221; + wikiFileName; contextWeb.RootFolder.Update(); Needs to be changed to work with a local copy of an SPFolder. 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