Setting up your homepage

Your homepage is the jumping-off point for users on your intranet. The features you choose to have on your intranet homepage affect the intranet's usefulness and adoption. Select the best homepage options for your organization.

Edit homepage

Editing the homepage is a lot like editing any other content type on the intranet. You can access the homepage edit page directly from the homepage, without having to go to the Admin panel. The homepage template is populated with some cards by default, but you are free to add cards and remove most cards. (To learn more about templates, see What is a content template? and Modify a page template. To learn more about cards, see What are cards? and Card descriptions.)

1. On the homepage, click the gear icon on the right of the main navigation bar. (You must be in Admin mode to see the gear icon.)
2. Click on Edit homepage in the menu that opens. You will be taken to edit page for the homepage.
3. Enter a title for the homepage. (eg. You can call it Home, or enter {NAME}'s Home to personalize the name with users' names.)
4. See the headings below to learn how to make different changes to the homepage.
5. Click Save in the top right when you are done editing.

Change homepage layout

1. In homepage edit page, click Set up cards under Content type & template on the right. 
2. In the Update cards window that opens, click Modify template on the left. 
   
   
   
   
3. Click on the columns icon in the top right.
4. Click on one of the three layout options in the dropdown menu that opens. (To learn more, see Page layout options.)
   
   
    
5. Click Done in the Update cards window.
6. Continue editing the homepage, or click Save if you are done.

Add, remove and reorder cards

1. In homepage edit page, click Set up cards under Content type & template on the right.
2. In the Update cards window that opens, click Modify template on the left.
   
   
   
   
3. To add a card: In the template diagram, click on the plus sign to add a card in that column. Click on a card in the menu that opens on the right to add it to the template. Repeat to add more cards.
4. To remove a card: Click on the garbage can icon on the right of a card to remove it. (Not all cards can be removed.)
5. To change the order or column placement of cards: Click and hold on a card and drag it up and down to reorder the cards in that column, or click on a card and drag and drop it into another column.
6. Click Done in the Update cards window.
7. Continue editing the homepage, or click Save if you are done.

Homepage header

The homepage has an area to add a homepage header, or top level, full width card. This area is not available on other content pages, only the homepage. Currently, only the News carousel card and custom cards can be added to the homepage header area. The homepage header area is a highly visible area that can be used to feature important news posts and information. The homepage header spans all columns of the homepage for all layouts. It displays below the site header (where the logo displays) and the main navigation, and above all other cards, including the SuperNav.

To add a card to the homepage header, go into edit mode on the homepage, click Set up cards, click Modify template, and add a card to the top level full width area that shows in the template. (If the homepage header is empty, it will not show in the Set up cards window until Modify template is selected.) If no card is added to the homepage header area, this space will not appear on the homepage, rather the main homepage columns will fill the area.

Place to add homepage header displays after clicking Modify template

Multilingual homepage

If you have more than one language enabled on your homepage, customize your homepage for each language. Click on the dropdown menu in the top right of edit homepage to select the language icon for the homepage version that you want to edit. Make changes to versions for each enabled language. To learn more about multilingual features, see Language localization.

Homepage navigation options

Various navigation options are available for your intranet homepage:

Show/hide link to homepage in the Main navigation bar

The homepage is accessible by clicking the site logo or the home icon on the left of the App toolbar. A link to the homepage does not show in the Main navigation bar by default, but you can choose to display it there.

1. Click on the gear icon on the right of the Main navigation bar.
2. Click on Edit homepage in the menu that opens.
3. At the top of the page, for the checkbox "Display in the top navigation bar":
   1. Check the checkbox to show the link to the homepage.​
   2. Uncheck the checkbox to hide the link to the homepage.
4. Click Save on the top right.

Enable dropdown menus in the Main navigation bar

Administrators can enable dropdown menus that list the child pages for pages shown in the Main navigation bar. The dropdown menus open when a cursor hovers over a tab in the Main navigation bar.

1. Click on the gear icon on the right of the Main navigation bar.
2. Click on Edit homepage in the menu that opens.
3. Under the Homepage heading, for the checkbox "Enable drop-down menus in the top navigation":
   1. Check the checkbox to enable dropdown menus.
   2. Uncheck the checkbox to disable dropdown menus.
4. Click Save on the top right.

Show/hide link to a user's profile page in the Main navigation bar

Users are always able to access their profiles from the right of the App toolbar by clicking on their profile photo or name and selecting View profile. You can also make users' profiles available from the Main navigation bar via a personalized link (For example, "Hiromi's Profile"), but this is not enabled by default. To show the link:

1. Click on the gear icon on the right of the Main navigation bar.
2. Click on Edit homepage in the menu that opens.
3. Under the Homepage heading, for the checkbox "Show a link to the user's profile page in the top navigation":
   1. Check the checkbox to show the link to the user's profile page.
   2. Uncheck the checkbox to hide the link to the user's profile page.
4. Click Save on the top right.

Hide Left Navigation (SuperNav) for desktop homepage

Some administrators may wish to hide the tree-style navigation from the homepage on desktop computers. Note that it will still appear on other pages.

1. Click on the gear icon on the right of the Main navigation bar.
2. Click on Edit homepage in the menu that opens.
3. Click Set up cards on the right under Content type & template.
4. In the Update cards window that appears, find the Left Navigation Card.
5. Select the checkbox Hide for desktop.
6. Click Done in the bottom right of the Update cards window.
7. Click Save on the top right.