# Adding text to the bottom of the home page (V8.1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [November 19, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-text-to-the-bottom-of-the-home-page-v8-1/40813 "2020-11-19T18:22:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rpulsifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9a140/32.png) [@rpulsifer](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rpulsifer)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-text-to-the-bottom-of-the-home-page-v8-1/40813/1 "2020-11-19T18:22:55Z")
Since Ignition acts (and actually is) a webpage, and as we are launching a Gateway in China - Chinese regulations require us to put our ICP license # and company information at the bottom of our “Home” page. A single line of text (though it would be Chinese characters) is all that is required. What’s the simplest way to accomplish this? (if indeed, it is doable) ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 6:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-text-to-the-bottom-of-the-home-page-v8-1/40813/2 "2020-11-19T18:26:55Z")
If you put a load balancer or other reverse proxy in front of your gateway, it can provide anything you like as a home page. ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 6:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-text-to-the-bottom-of-the-home-page-v8-1/40813/3 "2020-11-19T18:46:15Z")
You don’t even need a frontend - you can set a ‘Homepage Redirect URL’ in the gateway settings: [https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Gateway+Settings#GatewaySettings-GatewaySettingsPropertyReference](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Gateway+Settings#GatewaySettings-GatewaySettingsPropertyReference) ---
**Author:** ![rpulsifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9a140/32.png) [@rpulsifer](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rpulsifer)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-text-to-the-bottom-of-the-home-page-v8-1/40813/4 "2020-11-19T18:49:40Z")
That’s cool, but I worry that a redirect or proxy will likely get one’s license revoked as they are very touchy about controlling what is displayed (even though this isn’t a “public” website per se, such fine distinctions are not appreciated, especially if they are US in origin) I just need to add one line of text at the bottom… I’ll use the redirect if that’s the only way ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2020, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-text-to-the-bottom-of-the-home-page-v8-1/40813/5 "2020-11-19T19:25:19Z")
You can use a relative redirect, so if you’re (for instance) already using Perspective, you could literally have your homepage be a Perspective project. In theory, you could crack open the `gateway.jar` and update the `gateway.properties` resource file (`BasePage.FooterTextBottom`) to add a new key. You’d then need to pack it back up into a .jar. In practice, I have no idea if that would work, and it might be further legally dicey with IA 🤷‍♂️. You’d also have to repeat the process with each Ignition upgrade. ---
**Author:** ![rpulsifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9a140/32.png) [@rpulsifer](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rpulsifer)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-text-to-the-bottom-of-the-home-page-v8-1/40813/6 "2020-11-23T16:34:34Z")
I would LOVE to have a perspective session be my home page… that would solve many problems EXCEPT that the switchuser script function doesn’t work. So, that brings up two more questions - slightly off-topic: 1. Is there a Gateway level , Perspective equivalent to switchUser? (I would have thought that “Gateway scoped”) 2. More generally, as I am new to Perspective, is there a doc that lists the functions that I know and love that **don’t** work in Perspective? I’ve seen other topics that instruct to look at the scope of each function, but I don’t see that in the user manual. ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-text-to-the-bottom-of-the-home-page-v8-1/40813/7 "2020-11-23T17:04:08Z")
> [@rpulsifer](#): > > Is there a Gateway level , Perspective equivalent to switchUser? (I would have thought that “Gateway scoped”) No, due to technical limitations of what an IdP exposes to Ignition (even Ignition's own IdP). I think the closest functionality would be [`system.perspective.login`](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/system.perspective.login) with the `forceAuth` parameter. > [@rpulsifer](#): > > More generally, as I am new to Perspective, is there a doc that lists the functions that I know and love that **don’t** work in Perspective? I’ve seen other topics that instruct to look at the scope of each function, but I don’t see that in the user manual. There's no collection, but all of the script-related pages in the appendix of the manual should have a 'Scope' indication: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/f/1/f1323a62d8ed70bacace8a22ff87616ae4fdc1a6.png) ---
**Author:** ![rpulsifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9a140/32.png) [@rpulsifer](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rpulsifer)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-text-to-the-bottom-of-the-home-page-v8-1/40813/8 "2020-11-30T19:34:14Z")
That worked great! Except… I cant get to any Vision projects from there - and that’s kinda the object of my new home page: to allow the user to launch (only) their projects that they have permission for. [System.util.retarget in perspective](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-util-retarget-in-perspective/23523/8) obviously doesn’t work (unless you guys have put in the JSON push mentioned in the post, linked above, from a year ago) I don’t suppose i could have a Vision project as my home page??? ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-text-to-the-bottom-of-the-home-page-v8-1/40813/9 "2020-11-30T19:55:35Z")
No, because Vision doesn’t have any ability to be mounted on a web page. It would probably be possible to find the list of Vision project names in the gateway scope - but then what are you going to do with that list without the deep linking (which, no, hasn’t yet been implemented)? I would just add a static redirect to the Vision client launcher download page, as we do on the default homepage. ---
**Author:** ![rpulsifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9a140/32.png) [@rpulsifer](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rpulsifer)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2020, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/adding-text-to-the-bottom-of-the-home-page-v8-1/40813/10 "2020-11-30T21:12:08Z")
Thank you, that’ll do for now on this China install. I’m learning a lot installing Ignition on an Alibaba VM in mainland China! First, If I don’t get my ICP license number in Chinese on the bottom of my home page, I’ll get shut down. My home page is now a perspective page (in Chinese) so that’s ok. Thank you VERY much for the great suggestions to get this accomplished! (My next step was to install a SSH cert… but NOPE! - encrypting traffic so that the gov’mint can’t read it will get you shut down too! Oh well, one less thing for me to do)