Settings

Understand the basics

The settings tab allows you:

  • To start configuring your instance

  • To enable general features across the instance

  • To update the appearance of the homepage and the general look and feel of your instance

  • To create and manage the scopes and areas

  • To add user help information

  • To configure the allowed external domains

Configuration

To access the Settings configuration panel, go in the administration panel and click the "Settings" item in the administration navigation bar.

Settings: Access settings panel

In the secondary navigation panel, you can see all the settings panel available:

  • Configuration: to configure general settings.

  • Appearance: to configure the instance look and feel.

  • Homepage: to configure what to display on the homepage.

  • Taxonomies: to manage taxonomies, a categorization feature.

  • Scopes: to manage scopes, a categorization feature.

  • Areas: to manage areas, another categorization feature.

  • Help sections: to create and edit help texts for participants.

  • Allowed external domains: to manage authorized external domains.

Settings sidebar menu

Examples

Thanks to this section, Decidim instances can have very different look and feel, with different colours, features, homepages, etc.

Homepage screenshot of beta.try.decidim.org
Homepage screenshot of borgerkraft.no
Homepage screenshot of meta.decidim.org
Homepage screenshot of decidim.barcelona