New users are directed to the 'Your Work' screen and I want them directed to the 'System Dashboard'.

Question

Hi,

A couple of months ago when I created new users they would login into Jira and by default they would land onto the 'System dashboard' after skipping through the questionnaire. Now when I create a new user they now land onto the 'your work' screen after skipping through the questionnaire. They then have to click the diamond (jira) icon to get to the system dashboard or another dashboard. Why would you change that? You have just made their entry into Jira longer.

Jira was once user friendly it's now becoming extremely hard for basic users of which 95% of my users are.

I have worked hard to write a document to help them navigate through Jira but since changes are made like this every month, I have abandoned this as I cannot keep up with the changes and nor can my users. Every month I need to re-train them?

Can anyone tell me how to set my new users to the 'system dashboard' and not to 'your work'.

This would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Tony.

Thuan Nguyen_j1g46d · Answer

Hi @Antonio Francis

User is able to choose their default landing page by going to Personal Settings (click on the profile icon at the top right corner, then choose Personal Settings).

Then user will be able to change their Jira Home page to: Your Work, Projects directory or Dashboards.

Thanks,

Thuan.

Antonio Francis · Answer

Hi Angelica,

Thanks very kind of you to have done that for me. It's very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Tony.

Angélica Luz · Answer

I understand Antonio. Dashboards are the better page for them because Your Work will be empty and the dashboard has gadgets with more information and details about their work or the work of the projects they are a member of.

Currently, we can't change that. I'm afraid you need to add that information on the documentation you created for new users for them to manually change. Maybe some of them will like Your Work instead of Dashboards, so they will have this option to choose what they like most when they open Jira.

Based on your request, I created a feature request suggesting the option to make the Dashboard a default or add the option for the admin to select:

* Set Dashboard as the default landing page for new users

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