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Login Destination: Sending us where we need to go!

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Rare is the site where the user who logs in, and needs to end up on their User page.  This is the default behavior of Drupal.  It makes sense if you are making a community or social media type website.  But for most of us, building publishing, marketing, and general business sites, we want to send our users to a specific place so they can start or continue their workflow.

The Drupal Login Destination module comes to our rescue.  With this module, we can redirect a user after logging in, after registering to the site, after using a one-time login link, or after logging out.  We can set rules based on the user's Role, and can direct users to internal or external links, keeping any variables needed.  It is a very powerful tool that you can use to help administrators on their way into their work, or help users into a conversion funnel of your design.

Installing Login Destination

Installation is simple, download to your modules folder and enable to the modules screen, or do so using drush:

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