Workspace settings

Personalize your workspace by adding company branding, updating the workspace subdomain, customizing your home page, and curating live feeds to keep your team up-to-date with the latest customer insights.

We recommend setting the name of your workspace to your organization’s name (e.g. EIF) or team’s name (e.g. EIF Research).

• To name your workspace, select ⚙️ Settings in the top right of the screen and under Workspace details, edit the textbox under Name.

Personalize your workspace by choosing a custom subdomain. This will make it easier for your team to find, and share with others!

By default, your workspace will be assigned a unique domain based on the workspace name followed by a unique string as an identifier, such as acme-research-d7ny.

Once you've set your own workspace domain, it will be displayed on all pages in your workspace.

• To update your domain, simply navigate to ⚙️ Settings > Domain.

By updating your to a new custom subdomain, any existing links you’ve sent out or bookmarked will be automatically redirected, without additional changes required.

Limits

Here are some things to keep in mind when creating a custom domain:

You can only update your domain 5 times. It cannot be less than three letters. It cannot end in a hyphen (-).It cannot contain profanity. It needs to be unique.

We recommend using a logo and color aligned to your organization's or client's brand. For the color theme, we also suggest avoiding the color white or other very light colors as these are hard to navigate across the workspace.

• To set the logo for your workspace, select ⚙️ Settings > Workspace details, click the icon next to the textboxes. You can upload an image to help identify the workspace to stakeholders.

• To change the color theme for your workspace, select ⚙️ Settings > Custom theme, click the icon next to the textboxes. You can choose a color or enter a custom hex code.

Personalize your workspace by choosing a custom subdomain. This will make it easier for your team to find, and share with others!

By default, your workspace will be assigned a unique domain based on the workspace name followed by a unique string as an identifier, such as acme-research-d7ny.

Once you've set your own workspace domain, it will be displayed on all pages in your workspace.

If you switch to a new custom subdomain, any existing links you’ve sent out or bookmarked will be automatically redirected, without any changes required.

To update your domain, simply navigate to ⚙️ Settings > Domain.

Limits

Here are some things to keep in mind when creating a custom domain:

You can only update your domain 5 times. It cannot be less than three letters. It cannot end in a hyphen (-).It cannot contain profanity. It needs to be unique.

Managers and Contributors can grant Dovetail employees temporary access to their workspace for support purposes.

Grant support access

When chatting with our support team, you may be asked for consent to access your account in order to help with troubleshooting or recovery. If you are Manager or Contributor, you can grant support access by following the steps below. If you are a Viewer, you will need to ask a user with a paid seat to grant support access for you.

• Navigate to Settings in the top right of your screen, then click on Account in the settings navigation on the left

• Navigate to Support access and click Grant support access

Once access is granted, Dovetail's support team will have the ability to log in to your workspace for 3 days, or until you revoke access. The remaining time will be visible from this same page where access was granted.

Revoke support access

To revoke support access before the specified expiration date, Managers and Contributors will need to follow the same steps that were taken to grant access.

• Navigate to Settings in the top right of your screen, then click on Account in the settings navigation on the left

• Navigate to Support access and click Revoke support access

Customize your workspace home in Dovetail to make it work for your needs. Use search blocks and feeds to create a directory-like experience for your stakeholders, or add references to keep it feeling fresh.

Managers are able to change the layout, content and look and feel of your home so you can make it truly feel like your team's home for customer knowledge.

• To start editing, click Edit home in the top right corner of the Home tab. This action is only available to managers of the workspace.

• From there, you will be able to edit the existing contents of your home, as well as add or delete content. The toolbar on the top of the screen allows you to add or edit content.

• Once you are done editing, you can click Finish editing to save. Please be aware that any changes made to your home will be visible to all users in your workspace.

You are able to reset your home to its original layout. To do this, click Edit Home then Reset home.

In Home, managers can also set up custom feeds to populate content as its created in the workspace.

• To create a custom feed, click + Add feed. From there, click on ✏️ to pick your feed’s emoji and title, and select the type of Dovetail content you wish to show under Display.  

All users see the custom feeds, though only managers can edit the search queries.

Feeds respect product and content permissions. Keep in mind that users with no access to Dovetail will not be able to see Dovetail content in your Explore feeds.

Managers can reorder custom feeds by dragging and dropping them. Custom feeds can have titles up to 200 characters long.

A workspace can have up to 100 saved feeds.

Custom feeds that leverage multiple objects and filters need an appropriate filter applied for each object to function effectively. For example, showing a filtered set of insights, you might filter by the project (for the insights you want to show). Any object that doesn’t have a suitable filter applied to it will return zero results after the first filter is applied.