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# Experience settings for UI Builder

# Experience settings for UI Builder {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Yokohama
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* Updated January 30, 2025
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* ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 1 minute to read

Learn about the UI Builder experience settings to build your own
workspace and custom portal experiences.

By changing the settings of the workspace or portal experience that you're working in, you can affect how your users interact with the experience, how the experience looks, and how users navigate to and from the experience.

Before you can edit the experience settings, you must be in the correct application scope. If you're in a different scope, the experience settings are read-only. To change your application scope, go to the main header, select the
application picker (![Application picker.]()), and then select the application scope that you want. For more information about the application scope, see [Learn about security and roles](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/nq2SVpZbgN_ULCqGmLGRuQ "Set up the security and roles for your UI Builder instance.").

## Workspace experience settings {#experience-settings__section_l54_znd_znb}

You can change these settings for your workspace experience:

* Modify or add some general settings for your experience. For example, you can change the title, description, and the path of the workspace or portal.
* Apply your organization's branding to all pages in your experience or to a page within your experience.
* Configure your side navigation settings to add pages to the side navigation in your experience.
* Turn on or turn off the notifications for your experience.
* You can change the global search settings for your experience. For example, you can choose to show or hide the search bar in your experience or change the search source that determines where the search results come from.

{#experience-settings__ul_jwv_f3f_tnb} Figure 1. Workspace edit experience settings screen

To learn more about the workspace experience settings, see [Configure UI Builder workspace experiences](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/I~VLtlj0CxQYVmZ3XM4hSA "You can change the UI Builder workspace experience settings to fit your company goals.").

## Portal experience settings {#experience-settings__section_pdy_k4d_znb}

You can change these settings for your portal experience:

* Modify or add general settings for your experience. For example, you can change the title, the description, and the path of the workspace or portal.
* Apply your organization's branding to all of the pages in your experience or to a page within your experience.
* Set up the navigation and menu settings in the app shell of your portal experience. The app shell, which is the wrapper of the portal contents, is similar to a Google Chrome web page.
* Control whether the global search functionality is visible to the users of your portal experience. For example, you can enable or disable the global search for either your public or private pages.

{#experience-settings__ul_n2g_p4d_znb}Figure 2. Edit experience settings screen

To learn more about the portal experience settings, see [Configure UI Builder portal experiences](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/nvsvluvK70E65qbZQVsYig "You can change your UI Builder custom portal experience settings to affect how your users interact with your portal experience.").