Customize the layout of the Confluence Dashboard

[Tom104Tom]

Hi,

we are running Confluence 6.15 and would like to switch the position of the Recently Updated/Popular pane and the Welcome Message on the Dashboard, so the Welcome Message is on the left and uses more space that we can fill with additional information.

All the information I find about customizing the Confluence Dashboard layout seems to lead here:
Go to Confluence Admin > Look & Feel > Layouts -> Global Layout
and contains code snippets that are not existing anymore in this default Global Layout, i.e. there is none of the following code in the Global Layout:

{code}
<div class="dashboard-group right wiki-content">
$helper.renderConfluenceMacro("{recently-updated-dashboard:showProfilePic=true}")
</div>## right
{code}

It seems like there was a major structural change in generating the Dashboard's content in 6.0 or 6.3.

So, where is the code that controls i.e. the position of the panels (Recently Updated/Popular) and the Welcome Message now? Or which file has to be edited in order to modify the layout of the Dashboard?

Thanks & Cheers, Tom