Set up Confluence Cloud
Get the high-level details you need to set up your Confluence Cloud site in order to meet your team's needs.
Configure the site homepage
Confluence Cloud has a default homepage and sidebar, where you can see activity, resume your work, access the space directory, and more. You can choose to use the overview page of a Confluence Cloud space as the landing page for your site if you'd like to change the landing page for your users.
This can be useful if most people will be reading, rather than creating, pages in your site. However, for sites where you want to encourage teams to collaborate, the default homepage and sidebar provide the best tools for resuming work in progress and keeping up with what's happening on the site.
To use a page as your site home page:
If you aren’t already there, go to your Confluence Cloud site.
Select the settings wheel () in the top right corner to open site settings.
Select Further Configuration from the sidebar (under Configuration).
Select Edit.
Select a space from the Site Homepage dropdown menu. When users log in or click the site logo, Confluence Cloud will go to the overview page of the space you choose.
Select Save.
Note about permissions
Before changing the site homepage, you should check that the default "confluence-users" or "users" groups have permissions to view the space, and that the overview page itself isn't restricted to particular people or groups.
If your site is public, you'll also need to make sure anonymous users have permissions to view the space, otherwise they'll be directed to the default Confluence Cloud homepage instead.
Accessing the default home with a site homepage set
If you choose to set a page as your site homepage but would like your users to still be able to access the default home and sidebar, you can add a link to the application navigator.
To add the default home and sidebar to the application navigator:
If you aren’t already there, go to your Confluence Cloud site.
Select from the top left, then select Manage list.
Enter the Name for your link (for example, "Dashboard").
Enter the URL for your site's default home (for example, https://yoursite.atlassian.net/wiki/dashboard.action)
Select Add.
A link to the default home will now appear in the application navigator.
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