The Home tab in Salesforce CRM Lightning Experience is generally set as the opening page for users when they first log into the application.

Users of Salesforce like having access to the information and data that is most relevant to them in a quick and easy fashion, and landing on a customized Home page is usually preferred by most users.

Out of the box, the Home page in Salesforce CRM Lightning Experience provides a great way for users to view sales performance and opportunity top deals, tasks and events, account news, recent records, and so on. The following screenshot shows the Salesforce CRM Home tab screen:

The Home page in Salesforce CRM Lightning Experience allows various standard Home page components to be shown, such as Quarterly Performance, Today's Events, or Top Deals (as shown in the preceding screenshot).

In addition to the standard components, it is possible to create custom components with functionality that is not provided by default. Both types of components can be made available to users by customizing the Home page layouts and assigning different Home page layouts to different users based on their profile.

The following recipes are designed to improve the usefulness and relevance of the Home page and also provide additional features and functionality that are not provided natively within the Salesforce CRM application.