How to add Recently Updated Dashboard and Favourite Spaces tab in Confluence 5.9.x and above
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Summary
Confluence 5.9 and above has a new dashboard:
Which is different than the old dashboards that are available in Confluence 5.8 and below, and does not include the Recently Updates tab that has a tab which only contains Recently Updated content from Favourite Spaces and Pages only:
Solution
Edit the Site welcome message and add the Updated Macro manually:
Go to
> General Configuration > Global Templates and Blueprints.
Scroll down to the System templates and choose Edit next to Default Welcome Message.
Add the Recently Updated Dashboard Macro and save the page
You will see the tabs in the right side of the Dashboard now:
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