Home Screen: Mobile Phone home screen issue

[corsacca]

When I copy the link to Home Screen and then add that to my iOS Home Screen, clicking this link loads the DT Dashboard instead of taking me to the DT Home Screen with apps. Any idea how I can force it to go DT Home Screen every time?

Lets circle back to this after the migration.

[corsacca]

@kodinkat this is still an issue after migration.
I think the homescreen needs a correct manifest file.

[kodinkat]

@corsacca I've now had a chance to look into this and I've been able to find a solution; which is documented below. When you can, pls test it out also and let me know if the steps hold true for you, too.

Solution Summary

1. Ensure to disable user login prompts; allowing direct access to Home Screen

2. Next, navigate to Your Apps setting and copy the App Link URL.

3. Trying to create an app button directly on your mobile's home screen, will fail; due to Home Screen URLs being truncated and resulting in either the D.T login or dashboard being shown when clicked. Therefore, as a workaround, a URL shortening service (tinyurl.com) must be used to reduce the recently copied Home Screen URL.

4. Once we have a reduced URL, a mobile phone shortcut can be created, using the shortcuts (on iPhone) app.

4.1. Create a shortcut, with an Open URL action and specify recently reduced Home Screen URL.

4.2. Confirm a shortcut is created on your mobile phone home screen.

4.3. When clicked, you should be directed into the Home Screen app - Notice the shortened URL is converted back to the original URL.

[corsacca]

thanks @kodinkat.

Would setting up a manifest file when on homescreen not work?

When a user taps "Add to Home Screen," the browser looks for a
manifest file. If it finds one, it uses the start_url value as the
launch URL — ignoring the page the user was actually on.

[kodinkat]

thanks @kodinkat.

Would setting up a manifest file when on homescreen not work?

When a user taps "Add to Home Screen," the browser looks for a
manifest file. If it finds one, it uses the start_url value as the
launch URL — ignoring the page the user was actually on.

@corsacca agreed; as manifest file holds true also - see PR...