After several hours of perusing the Community and Docs sites, I turned to my faithful friend dan.cavanaugh for an assist. I was well down the path of creating a Business Rule on the sys_user table to invoke changes to the sys_user_preference table and set some homepages when he asked "why not just set the homepage when you give the user the custom role?". To which I replied, "genius!". Here's the write-up....
Scenario: Customer wants a user with a particular role to be re-directed to a specific homepage.
Solution: There are multiple ways to do this, but the method shown here is done on the sys_user_has_role table. Since the requirement is that the homepage be set based on a role, what better place to invoke the sys_user_preference than on the table that tracks when the user gets the role. Create an "After Insert" Business rule on the sys_user_has_role table with the order of 99 (so that it is not stopped by other business rules) and give the script as outlined below to set the homepage.
Advanced Business Rule:
Note: You may want to create a fix script to reinsert or update the roles for those users so that this BR would be invoked. Or simply set the homepage with a fix script for users with the existing role.
