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point of the day, giving users an overview of your upcoming appointments, urgent emails, chat messages, incoming tickets, latest tweets and much more! Users can add the widgets they like and change the background to their liking.</p> <section id="enabling-the-dashboard-app"> <h2>Enabling the dashboard app<a class="headerlink" href="#enabling-the-dashboard-app" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2> <p>The Dashboard App is shipped and enabled by default. If it is not enabled simply go to your Nextcloud Apps page to enable it.</p> </section> <section id="configuring-your-nextcloud-for-the-activity-app"> <h2>Configuring your Nextcloud for the activity app<a class="headerlink" href="#configuring-your-nextcloud-for-the-activity-app" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2> <p>The dashboard widgets are provided by apps and have a unique identifier. This can be used to customize the default layout of the dashboard as an administrator. The layout is stored as a comma-separated list of widget identifiers.</p> <p>The layout of an existing user can be read with the following command:</p> <div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">occ</span> <span class="n">user</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">setting</span> <span class="n">admin</span> <span class="n">dashboard</span> <span class="n">layout</span> </pre></div> </div> <p>The layout of the dashboard for a specific user can be set with the following command:</p> <div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">occ</span> <span class="n">user</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">setting</span> <span class="n">admin</span> <span class="n">dashboard</span> <span class="n">layout</span> <span class="s2">"calendar,files,activity"</span> </pre></div> </div> <p>The default layout of the dashboard for all users can be set with the following command:</p> <div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">occ</span> <span class="n">config</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">app</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="nb">set</span> <span class="n">dashboard</span> <span class="n">layout</span> <span class="o">--</span><span class="n">value</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">"files,activity,calendar"</span> </pre></div> </div> <p>Changing the default layout will not affect existing users that already have a custom layout stored.</p> <p>It is possible to replace the default app, which is the dashboard app, with a custom app with the following command:</p> <blockquote> <div><p>occ config:app:set core defaultpage –value “/apps/files/extstoragemounts”</p> </div></blockquote> </section> </section> </div> </div> <footer><div class="rst-footer-buttons" role="navigation" aria-label="Footer"> <a href="caching_configuration.html" class="btn btn-neutral float-left" title="Memory caching" accesskey="p" rel="prev"><span class="fa fa-arrow-circle-left" aria-hidden="true"></span> Previous</a> <a href="domain_change.html" class="btn btn-neutral float-right" title="Domain Change" accesskey="n" rel="next">Next <span class="fa fa-arrow-circle-right" aria-hidden="true"></span></a> </div> <hr/> <div role="contentinfo"> <p>© Copyright 2016-2026 Nextcloud GmbH and Nextcloud contributors.</p> </div> </footer> </div> </div> </section> </div> <div class="rst-versions" data-toggle="rst-versions" role="note" aria-label="versions"> <span class="rst-current-version" data-toggle="rst-current-version"> ☁️ latest <span class="fa fa-caret-down"></span> </span> <div class="rst-other-versions"> <dl> <dt>☁️ Versions</dt> <dd style="width: 32%"> <a href="https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual" style="color: var(--dark-link-color);" > latest </a> </dd> <dd style="width: 32%"> <a href="https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual" > stable </a> </dd> <dd style="width: 32%"> <a href="https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/32/admin_manual" > 32 </a> </dd> <dd style="width: 32%"> <a href="https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/31/admin_manual" > 31 </a> </dd> </dl> </div> </div> <script> jQuery(function () { SphinxRtdTheme.Navigation.enable(true); }); </script> </body> </html>
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