"Default workspace" is designed to be configurable in "Workspace properties" Edit page. But it's not rendered even with admin role user. Only 'root' can render that.
Such a gap between "admin" and "root" seems to be considered as a bug (FYI: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1136743)
We can work around the problem with system properties.
<system-properties> ... <property name="org.jboss.dashboard.users.UserStatus.rootLogin" value="bpmsAdmin"/> <property name="org.jboss.dashboard.users.UserStatus.rootUserName" value="bpmsAdmin"/> </system-properties>