# Workspaces

A Carbon workspace is a curated collection of applications and resources that can be configured to optimize a user workflow.

Carbon workspaces can be used to promote the discoverability of Foundry resources, which can be linked on the [home page](#home-page), discovered with search, or added to the **Open in** menu in Object Explorer.

By [configuring navigation in Carbon](../workspaces-navigation/index.md) and customizing the [menu bar](#menu-bar), a workspace builder can create a workflow where a user seamlessly steps through the resources in which they can interact with a particular object.

## Home page

Carbon provides a configurable home page as an entry point to each workspace. The home page displays an Ontology-aware search bar as well as configurable sections for links to modules, object types, and other Foundry resources. Alternatively, any module can be chosen as a workspace's home page.

![home page Concept](../../../assets/1c2b3cc3e8adb00b6884d05ff4434b6925eb3619679e1dd4a56b8639e2a8409a.webp)

Administrators can configure the logo as well as the content and layout of the home page's links. For more information, see the [home page configuration documentation](../configuration-home/index.md).

## Menu bar

Each Carbon workspace has a customizable menu bar that consists of the following components:

* The [Navigation Menu](../workspaces-navigation/index.md), which is a configurable dropdown containing [promoted workspaces](#promoted-workspaces) and external application links.
* Tabs containing anchored modules that are key to a workspace's use case.
* An optional button to open additional modules in workspace tabs.
* Utility buttons for help resources and, optionally, notifications, as well as a utility button with options to view one's user profile or log out of Foundry.

Read more about [menu bar configuration](../configuration-menu-bar/index.md).

## Promoted workspaces

Promoted workspaces are those that are displayed in the [Navigation Menu](../workspaces-navigation/index.md). Promoted workspaces are [configured](../workspaces-navigation/index.md#promote-and-hide-workspaces) at the organization level.

In the Navigation Menu, each user will see all of the promoted workspaces to which they have access, for all organizations in which they are a member or a guest.

Non-promoted workspaces can be opened in a Project or via direct link.