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title: Configuring the application dashboard
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> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

The [application dashboard](https://docs.kentico.com/13/using-the-xperience-interface.md) allows users to quickly access their favorite and most frequently used applications and supported objects, such as [Forms](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-website-content/forms.md) or [Campaigns](https://docs.kentico.com/13/on-line-marketing-features/managing-your-on-line-marketing-features/campaigns.md).

- **Users** can [individually adjust](https://docs.kentico.com/13/using-the-xperience-interface.md#adding-applications-and-objects-to-the-applications-dashboard) the applications and objects they see on the dashboard.
- **Administrators** can change what users in specific roles see on the dashboard by default (the first time they sign in).

![Application dashboard](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/13/configuring-the-application-dashboard/Application_dashboard.png "Application dashboard")

To change which applications users in particular roles have on their dashboard, [assign roles](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-users/role-management.md), and configure the dashboard settings of the roles:

1. Open the **Roles** application.
2. Select the **Site** containing the role or the _(global)_ option.
3. **Edit** () the role.
4. Open the **Default dashboard** tab.
5. Add or remove the applications assigned to the role.

The assigned applications appear on the dashboard of all users who belong to the given role. For users with multiple roles, the dashboard displays a combination of all applications assigned to the given roles. The system automatically filters the application dashboard for each role based on [permissions](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-users/configuring-permissions.md) and [UI personalization](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-users/ui-personalization.md) settings.

The **Welcome to Xperience** tile helps first-time users navigate in the Xperience interface. If you close this tile, you can set it to appear again for individual users:

1. Open the **Users** application.
2. **Edit** () a user.
3. Open the **Settings** tab.
4. Select the **Show welcome tile** check box.

The system displays this tile for the chosen user on the Dashboard.

## How are applications defined in the system?

The system uses [UI elements](https://docs.kentico.com/13/custom-development/creating-custom-modules/reference-managing-ui-elements.md) to represent applications.

You can view the tree of elements that define the system's user interface in **Modules -> edit a module -> User interface**. To find the UI elements of applications, open the **CMS -> Administration** section of the tree and expand individual category elements.

![Elements of the user interface](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/13/configuring-the-application-dashboard/Application_elements.png "Elements of the user interface")

> **Note:** **Global applications**
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> Some of the UI elements representing applications have the **Is global application** flag enabled. Global applications can affect the entire system, and remain available for administrators even if the current site is not running.
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> Most global applications are only accessible by users with the **Global administrator** [privilege level](https://docs.kentico.com/13/managing-users/user-management.md).