Default Welcome Message template

[Darryl St_ Pierre]

I'm working on changing the default landing page in Confluence Cloud (dashboard by default) to a custom page.

I want to include the information from the existing Default Welcome Message template on the page, but I don't see a way to do it. Is it possible?

[Darryl St_ Pierre · Accepted solution]

Update:  A bug has been submitted to Atlassian. If you're currently experiencing or have an interest in this issue, please see CONFCLOUD-66972 - Server base URL redirects to activity page instead of the homepage. 

[Shannon S]

Thanks for reporting this, Darryl!

I'll be watching that issue.

Take care, and have a pleasant weekend.

Regards,

Shannon

[Shannon S · Accepted solution]

Hello Darryl, 

Thank you for contacting us. I can see how this would be pretty helpful.

It's not possible to embed the system template in another page, but what you can do is create a new page in Confluence that would have your welcome message. It needs to be open to any users who should see the welcome message.

1. Surround your welcome message with an Excerpt Macro.
2. You can then use the Excerpt Include Macro to embed this message on any page you require it.
3. Additionally, you could go edit the original Site Welcome message template and replace the text with another copy of the Excerpt Include Macro.

When you do it this way, no one will inadvertently change the text there and expect it to be updated on the other pages. You could also add Instructional Text here telling them where to go in order to edit the one you are now using.

Another reason why it's useful to use the Excerpt Include macro on the original template is because you can then still use the default dashboard pages and it should still show the edited Welcome Message.

I hope that's clear! Let me know if you have any questions about it.

Regards

Shannon

[Darryl St_ Pierre]

Thank you Shannon. This would absolutely work. As I was trying things out, I stumbled across a bigger "problem" in that I cannot redirect the landing page in the way I expected to. The option in Settings prompts for the selection of a different space in place of "dashboard", but still drops everyone to the Activity page (wiki/discover/all-updates).

I've submitted a ticket to Support for clarification or Bug status.

[Shannon S]

Darryl,

Great that it should work for you! As for the behavior you're seeing, if possible, could you follow up here with the resolution to that? If it's a bug ticket I'd like it to be public as well so if anyone else runs into the problem, they can report it.

Regards,

Shannon

[Darryl St_ Pierre]

Absolutely! I find it very helpful when others do this as well.