Hi David

I think the usual Umbraco Welcome Dashboard is only presented to Administrators.

An administrator will also see the Redirect URL Management dashboard in the content section, but as the second tab.

It's there for editors to view/remove any 301 redirects that have been created automatically by Umbraco when published content is moved or renamed.

The dashboards, the order in which they appear, and who can see them is editable in the following configuration file /config/dashboard.config

So if you want writers to see the normal Umbraco welcome dashboard, you can just allow them to see it here:

  <section alias="StartupDashboardSection">
    <access>
      <deny>translator</deny>
    </access>
    <areas>
      <area>content</area>
    </areas>
    <tab caption="Get Started">
      <access>
        <grant>admin,writer</grant>
      </access>
      <control showOnce="true" addPanel="true" panelCaption="">
        views/dashboard/default/startupdashboardintro.html
      </control>
    </tab>
  </section>

But another thing to consider would be to create a 'custom dashboard' specifically for Editors, perhaps with quick links to common functionality, and any news of updates to new features that have been added to the site recently.

There is a reasonably good tutorial about creating a Custom Dashboard for this purpose here: https://our.umbraco.com/documentation/Tutorials/Creating-a-Custom-Dashboard/ that can perhaps provide some inspiration.

regards

Marc

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