Because you may have the ability to customize your own home pages and portal panes, a distinction must be made between the changes that you make and those made by the administrator.

Home Page Personalization

If you have the right to personalize home pages, changes that you make to the Page Settings take precedence over solution developer changes.

However, if the solution developer adds portal panes to a home page, you will always see these changes. Even if you add a portal pane to a home page by clicking the Add Content link from the page, and then the solution developer adds the same portal pane to the same home page, you will see two of the same portal panes on the home page. If desired, you can then remove the duplicated portal pane yourself.

Portal Pane Customization

If you have the right to customize a portal pane (see Customizing Portal Pane Layout), changes you make take precedence over administrative changes.

For example, if you click the edit icon on a portal pane and customize that portal pane, the changes you made appear on your home page. Changes made by the solution developer to that same portal pane do not appear on your home page. In short, the moment you customize a portal pane, those changes take precedence over solution developer changes to that same portal pane. But if you do not edit a portal pane, then solution developer changes take precedence.

Home Page and Portal Pane Synchronization

Although you might have the ability to personalize your home pages and customize your portal panes, your administrator can overwrite those changes at anytime. Solution developers have the ability to synchronize home pages and portal panes contents when necessary. Solution developers are advised to notify users before synchronizing home pages or portal panes.