Setup Home
Setup Home is the landing page of the Salesforce Setup menu that provides a centralized overview of the org's health, recent setup changes, and recommended actions.
Definition
Setup Home is the landing page of the Salesforce Setup menu that provides a centralized overview of the org's health, recent setup changes, and recommended actions. It includes links to the most commonly used setup pages, the setup search bar, and widgets showing adoption metrics, feature recommendations, and release updates.
In plain English
“Here's a simple way to think about it: Setup Home is the dashboard most admins forget to actually look at. Recent setup changes, recommended actions, adoption metrics, quick links - it's the closest thing the platform has to a daily-status overview.”
Worked example
When the admin at GreenLeaf Organics opens Setup, the Setup Home page immediately shows her three items needing attention: a Release Update to test before next quarter, a recommendation to enable MFA for 15 users who don't have it, and a widget showing that 95% of users are now on Lightning Experience. She clicks through each item to take action.
Why Setup Home is the dashboard most admins forget to actually look at
Setup Home is the landing page when you click Setup - and most admins immediately type into the search bar to navigate elsewhere. That's a missed signal. Setup Home includes the recent setup changes timeline (showing what's been modified in the last week), recommended actions based on the current org state, key adoption metrics, and quick links to the pages most-touched in your role. It's the closest thing the platform has to a daily-status overview for admins.
The reason it's worth slowing down for is that the recommendations are often correct. Salesforce surfaces things like unassigned licenses, expiring certificates, and security findings here before they cause problems elsewhere. Make Setup Home a habit - open Setup, scan the changes timeline, glance at the recommendations - and you'll catch issues early instead of being surprised by them later.
How to set up Setup Home
Setup Home is the landing page admins see when they click Setup. It shows org-wide notifications, recent items, news, recommended actions. Customizing Setup Home means picking which tiles surface — the page is read-mostly, but admins can pin frequently-used Setup pages.
- Open Setup → Home
Click the Setup gear → Setup → Home (or just open Setup; Home is the default).
- Review tiles
Recent items, Most Used, Salesforce news, Onboarding, Most Recently Modified.
- Pin frequently-accessed Setup pages
On any Setup page, click the pin icon next to the breadcrumb to add to your Setup Home favorites.
- (Optional) configure Notifications
Setup Home shows notifications from Salesforce (release updates, security flags). Click into each for detail.
- For org-wide Notifications: Setup → Notification Builder
Org-wide custom notifications go through Notification Builder, which surfaces in Setup Home for the right users.
Per-user pinning. Each admin's Home is personalized.
From Salesforce + custom org notifications.
Auto-tracked by Salesforce.
- Setup Home is mostly per-user. Pinning frequently-used pages is a personal-productivity tip; admins can't enforce it across the team.
- Notifications surface release updates with deadlines. Don't ignore — Enforcement Dates auto-enable changes regardless.
- Recent Items can be confusing in cross-org workflows. The list reflects what you accessed in this org; switching orgs resets the list.
How organizations use Setup Home
Setup Home recommendations surfaced expiring certificates and unassigned licenses; admin caught issues before they became incidents.
Daily admin habit includes Setup Home scan; recent changes timeline catches drift early.
Quarterly admin reviews start from Setup Home - the recommendation panel is often the right starting point.
Test your knowledge
Q1. In which area of Salesforce would you typically find Setup Home?
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