Design Studio

Design Studio allows admins to customise the layout of the main Fuse homepage, audience-specific homepages, community-specific homepages, manager dashboards, and user dashboards. This includes the ability to add, remove and resize a number of different widgets, which display useful information or content to the users viewing the page.

Fuse provides an extensive selection of widgets in Design Studio that admins can use to display information from across the Fuse instance (such as trending topics and upcoming events) and the Internet (useful links) that are of use to specific user types (ordinary users and managers) and audiences (such as new starters and HR personnel). The tabs at the top of the screen allow admins to select the user type and audience to customise homepages and dashboards for.

Users with other users reporting to them (reportees) are designated as "managers" in Fuse.

The table below lists the different tabs available at the top of the page in Design Studio:

Tab	Description

Tab	Description
Default homepage	Used to control the base homepage layout, viewable to all non-manager users in Fuse who do not have access to an audience-specific homepage.
Audience Specific Homepage	Used to control different homepage layouts, based on a specific dropdown field found in each user's profile. If the Audience Specific Homepage tab is not available, contact Fuse Customer Support or your Customer Success Consultant (CSC) to have it enabled. For example, there might be a dropdown field in each user's profile called Role, with the following options: Employee, Leaver, and New Starter. You can link the "Role" field to the Audience Specific Homepage tab, so that you can create a unique homepage layout for each one of these roles. In the example below, there is a different homepage layout for Employees, Leavers, and New Starters. This means: All users with "Employee" selected in the Role field in their profile, will see a homepage tailored to the Employees role. All users with "New Starter" selected in the Role field in their profile, automatically see a homepage tailored to the New Starters role. All users with "Leaver" selected in the Role field in their profile, automatically see a homepage tailored to the Leavers role. Linking an existing dropdown field to the Audience Specific Homepage tab To link an existing dropdown field the Audience Specific Homepage tab in Design Studio: Notes: You can only link dropdown fields to the Audience Specific Homepage tab in Design Studio. Other field types cannot be linked. Selectable options for existing dropdown profile fields, can altered in the Profile custom options screen, in the Admin Panel. Click Settings. The Settings window appears. From the dropdown, select the dropdown field you want to link to the Audience Specific Homepage tab. By changing the profile field that is currently linked, you will automatically erase all previously configured layouts in the Audience Specific Homepage tab. Select the checkbox next to By ticking this I accept that I am responsible for the consequences which will occur, to agree to the terms. Click Save to confirm the changes. The selected profile field is linked to the Audience Specific Homepage tab.
Default Manager Dashboard	Used to configure the default layout for the Manager/Reportee screen, viewable to all managers who do not have access to a manager-specific dashboard.
Manager Specific Dashboard	Used to configure a manager-specific layout for the Manager/Reportee screen, based on custom profile fields.
Community specific	Used to control the homepage layout for each community in Fuse.
User Dashboard	Used to control the My Dashboard screen, viewable to all non-manager users in Fuse without access to an audience-specific dashboard. This dashboard can be configured by admins to display information that might be useful or relevant to users, such as their average content score, recent activities, contributions, how popular their content is, and learning plans they have been assigned.