How to rearrange the default dashlet of alfresco?

Question

Whenever a new user is created using alfresco he will be presented with default four dashlets. Namely:

1. My Sites
2. My activities
3. My Tasks
4. My Documents.

Since I dont want My task, me with little help from html tutorial, modified My task to look like this

Is there any way to change the default layout. So the My Task will be on top and My Sites will be below.

Answer 1

Assuming you are using a default installation, the quickest solution is to copy webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/site-data/presets/presets.xml to tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/site-data/presets/presets.xml look up the user-dashboard preset and edit (the copy) so it reads:

<!-- Well known preset used to generate the default User dashboard -->
<preset id="user-dashboard">
   <components>
      <!-- title -->
      <component>
         <scope>page</scope>
         <region-id>title</region-id>
         <source-id>user/${userid}/dashboard</source-id>
         <url>/components/title/user-dashboard-title</url>
      </component>
      <!-- dashboard components -->
      <component>
         <scope>page</scope>
         <region-id>full-width-dashlet</region-id>
         <source-id>user/${userid}/dashboard</source-id>
         <url>/components/dashlets/dynamic-welcome</url>
         <properties>
            <dashboardType>user</dashboardType>
         </properties>
      </component>
      <component>
         <scope>page</scope>
         <region-id>component-1-1</region-id>
         <source-id>user/${userid}/dashboard</source-id>
         <url>/components/dashlets/my-tasks</url>
      </component>
      <component>
         <scope>page</scope>
         <region-id>component-1-2</region-id>
         <source-id>user/${userid}/dashboard</source-id>
         <url>/components/dashlets/my-sites</url>
      </component>
      <component>
          <scope>page</scope>
          <region-id>component-2-1</region-id>
          <source-id>user/${userid}/dashboard</source-id>
          <url>/components/dashlets/my-activities</url>
      </component>
      <component>
          <scope>page</scope>
          <region-id>component-2-2</region-id>
          <source-id>user/${userid}/dashboard</source-id>
          <url>/components/dashlets/my-documents</url>
          <properties>
             <height>240</height>
          </properties>
      </component>
   </components>
   <pages>
      <page id="user/${userid}/dashboard">
         <title>User Dashboard</title>
         <title-id>page.userDashboard.title</title-id>
         <description>Users dashboard page</description>
         <description-id>page.userDashboard.description</description-id>
         <template-instance>dashboard-2-columns-wide-right</template-instance>
         <authentication>user</authentication>
      </page>
   </pages>
</preset>

Be clear that this will affect only users visiting share the first time after you made the change.