Configure a GOV.UK Design System Service Portal citizen-facing landing page

task brazil Updated Jun 1, 2026 2 min read psds-config-govuk-dev-tk-portal-landing-page.md
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Create a catalog anchor landing page that lets constituents find a question-page journey on the GDS Service Portal.

Before you begin

Role required: admin

About this task

A question or service request journey lives on its own instance page, and, by default, without an anchor, nothing in the catalog will point at it and render it reachable. Create a catalog anchor item on the services page (by default, uk_gds_services) to ensure that the question or service request journey appears as a listed catalog item. You can use Service Portal Designer to create or copy a page.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to All > Service Portal > Service Portal Configuration.

  2. Select Designer.

  3. Select UK Government Portal to switch to editing or designing pages for the GDS Service Portal.

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  4. From the Service Portal Designer, select an existing GOV.UK journey landing page, and select Copy.

  5. Give it a unique page ID, such as uk_gds_blocked_footpath.

  6. Update the heading and introductory content.

  7. Configure its Start link to open the dedicated assessment page created for the question journey.

    For more information, see the last step of this procedure: Configure the GOV.UK Design System Service Portal Question Page Pattern Journey.

  8. Restrict the page to snc_external and/or snc_internal.

    Note: Mark the page public if anonymous users are allowed to use the service.

  9. To make the journey discoverable from the Services page, create a content item in the Service Catalog by entering the following values:

    Field Value
    Name Journey name
    Active true
    Content type External
    URL ?id=<landing_page_id>
    Access type Restricted
    Catalog UK Government catalog
    Category Appropriate service category
    Available on desktop true
    Visible standalone true

    Navigate to the Not Available For and Available For related lists to set the user criteria for the intended audiences. The user criteria can be set to:

    • users with SNC External role to allow both registered and unregistered constituents to access the question or service request journey from the catalog landing page.
    • users with snc_internal role to allow only registered constituents to access the question or service request journey from the catalog landing page. Note: Not Available For overrides Available For. Access to the catalog landing page is configured separately.
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