Can a plugin add something to the dashboard

[Stefan Kohler]

When building a plugin you can extend almost every part of Confluence, but is there also a way to add something to the dashboard?

[Jeremy Largman · Accepted solution]

You can modify the look of the dashboard, and you don't need a plugin to do it. It's described in the Confluence documentation at Customising the Dashboard. I wrote that page originally, and a user in one of the comments below really improved on it. Have a look through the whole discussion.

[Stefan Kohler]

As a plugin developer, I want to modify the dashboard from a plugin. I don't want the user to modify his own Confluence for my plugin to work ;-)

[Stefan Kohler]

The only location, where a plugin can add something, on the dashboard I found is "system.dashboard", but that are just the links shown above the spacelist, so not very usefull.

I noticed that a couple of other plugin's add something to the dashboard using a bootstrap JavaScript by adding a web-resource-module with the context "dashboard". From that JavaScript it would be possible to modify the dom and add some content, but it's not perfect.

So adding something to the dashboard from a plugin is not as trivial as one would expect.

[TylerA]

The way to add to the Dashboard is to Edit the page. Confluence's dashboard is just like any other home page on the system, except that (I think) it needs an administrator to perform the actual edit.

Edit:
I misread the question. The closest thing I can find is a "Web Panel" as described here, but I'm not sure if that requires an admin to add it to the Dashboard. ( Source of documentation )

[Stefan Kohler]

Not what I'm looking for, I want to be able to add a gadget or macro to the dashboard with my plugin. This is somewhat different then the welcome message an administrator can alter :)

[Sandro Hörler]

Any news about this case? I need to achieve the same as you :)