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The home screen is the section your widget opens on. When a visitor clicks your launcher button, this is the first screen they land on before they navigate anywhere else. You can point it at your feedback board, your changelog, or your roadmap, so people arrive exactly where you want them.
The Home screen setting lives under Public Portal & Widget in your workspace settings, and only workspace owners and admins can change it. If you have not added the widget to your site yet, install the widget first.

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Open the Home screen settings

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Go to the Widget settings

Navigate to Settings → Public Portal & Widget → Widget.
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Expand the Home screen section

Scroll down and click Home screen to open it. Inside you will find the Default screen control.The Widget settings with the Home screen section expanded, showing the Default screen control highlighted

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Pick a default screen

Open the Default screen dropdown and choose which section loads first. The Default screen dropdown open, showing Feedback board, Changelog, Roadmap, and Action screen You have four choices. This article covers the three board options below. The fourth, Action screen, is a custom launcher of quick-action tiles and is covered in its own guide: set up an action screen. After you pick an option, a save bar appears at the bottom of the page. Click Save changes to make it live, or Discard to revert.
A section can only be your home screen if it is switched on in the Navigation part of the same Widget settings page (and its module is enabled for your workspace). If you choose a section that is turned off, the widget quietly falls back to the first section that is enabled, so the home screen and the menu never disagree.

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Feedback board

Visitors land on your feedback board, the list of ideas people can vote on and comment on. This is the best default when collecting and prioritizing feature requests is your main goal. The widget opened on the feedback board, showing a list of ideas with vote counts and statuses

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Roadmap

Visitors land on your roadmap, the columns that show what is under consideration, planned, and in progress. Choose this when you want to lead with what you are building next and set expectations. The widget opened on the roadmap, showing ideas grouped into status columns

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Changelog

Visitors land on your changelog, the timeline of updates and releases you have shipped. Choose this when announcing what is new is the point of your widget. The widget opened on the changelog, showing a timeline of announcement posts

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The tab bar still lets visitors move around

The home screen only decides where a visitor starts. The tab bar at the bottom of the widget still lets them switch between every section you have enabled, so setting a default screen never hides the others. Use the Navigation section on the same page to control which tabs appear at all.

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The same setting for your public portal

The Home screen setting also exists under Settings → Public Portal & Widget → Portal, where it controls the landing section of your public portal website. The Action-screen fallback option matters here too: because the public portal has no action screen, a portal set to the action screen falls back to the board you pick there.

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Next steps

Set up an action screen

Replace the home screen with a custom launcher of quick-action tiles.

Control who can access your board

Decide who can reach your portal and how they sign in.