Confluence 4.0 : Customising the Dashboard
This page last changed on Aug 29, 2011 by pwatson.
If you are a Confluence Administrator, you can customise the global dashboard, affecting the way all users will see the dashboard. Confluence users can customise their view of the dashboard too. See the user's guide. Sending Users to a Space Home Page instead of the DashboardSee Configuring the Site Home Page. Editing the Top Left-hand Section of the DashboardSee Editing the Site Welcome Message. Editing the Bottom Left-hand Section of the DashboardThis section can be updated using Confluence Web Panels. You can add items to the dashboard by including a web panel with the key <web-panel key="{key}" location="atl.dashboard.left"> <resource name="view" type="velocity" location="{location}"/> </web-panel> You can remove the existing entities panel by disabling the global-entities-panel plugin from the Dashboard macros plugin. Editing the Top Right-hand Action BarYou can add more links to the top right navigation bar by adding web items to <web-item key="{key}" name="{name}" section="system.dashboard.button"> <label key="{label}"/> <link/> <styleClass/> </web-item> Modifying the Global Template or LayoutYou can also modify files to add content to the global dashboard. To make modifications to the dashboard, modify the global template For example, search the Global Layout for these macros: $helper.renderConfluenceMacro("{recently-updated-dashboard:dashboard|showProfilePic=true}") To modify the bundled plugin macros used in the Confluence dashboard:
To customise the space list, you can work with Related TopicsCustomising your Personal Dashboard |
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