Users can modify their home page and portal panes if given the ability to do so. Solution developer changes and user changes both affect home pages and portal panes. If users modify their home pages and portal panes, the masters, templates, and users' copies will get out-of-sync with each other.

The good news is that as the solution developer, you have total control. If it is necessary at any time to synchronize the content or settings of a home page or portal pane—or both—you can click the Synchronize Content and Synchronize Settings hyperlinks to do so.

When you synchronize content or settings of home pages or portal panes, you overwrite all modifications that users made to their home pages. The users see the content and settings as they appear in the master home pages and portal panes.