Archibus Web Central

Home Pages

For the various roles and users in an organization, an Archibus administrator can design home pages that offer information focused on this type of user. Home pages list important metrics, statistics, and alerts so that you can quickly determine the state of your issues and critical issues. Home pages display in the workspace area to the right of the sidebar navigation panel.

When you sign in to Archibus, it loads the Home Page based on your account. For example, if you are an energy manager, your account might present the Energy Manager home page.

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Load Home Pages

Typically, you will be assigned just one home page. However, if you are signed in with a role that has multiple home pages, you can toggle between the pages using the Home Page menu, accessed from the Select Home Page clipboard_e5eff9477c392487cc6011b150d824409.png icon and the menu underlines the home page that is currently loaded.

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Home Page Content

The default home pages focus on metrics, alerts, maps, and so on. You can click on a metric to drill into the composing data. See Tracking Metrics.

Although the default home pages focus on metrics, it is possible to add tasks to a home page so that users can access tasks from the home page rather than from the sidebar navigation panel. If you sign in as AFM-MOD, you will see that the Leases home page is an example of a home page that presents tasks.

Notes

  • Mouse Wheel. You can use the mouse wheel on the home pages to scroll the page up and down. 
  • Clearing the Browser Cache . If you reload a different version and you see odd behavior, such as home pages not paginating correctly, clear your browser History to remove older versions of the files from your client computer.
  • Alternate Locales . If you change some of the default users to alternate locales (e.g. English - Canada, English - Australia, etc.), an administrator must publish the home pages before that user can sign in. Navigate to System / Add-In Manager / Publish Home Pages by Role , select the role that is assigned to the locale you want to publish (e.g. English - United Kingdom), and click Publish. You will now be able to sign in with that user and locale and see your locale-specific units.
  • Currency Conversion . If your user display units are in different currencies or area units, the metrics convert organizational budget currencies and of base area units, as shown below.
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Customize and Create your own Home Pages

You can want to change the provided home pages or create your own home pages. For example, to add frequently-used tasks or URLs to a home page, or add a different set of metrics. For information, see the following topics in System Management Help:

Applications Home Page

Depending on your role, you may have access to the Applications home page, from which you can access any of your assigned processes or tasks. Each panel presents the applications of an Archibus domain. If you are familiar with the Navigator, you will find that the Applications page follows a similar format of organizing applications by domain, and within each application, grouping tasks by process or role.

  1. Click the (A) domain, such as Real Property.
  2. Click the (b) application, such as Portfolio. 
  3. Then you will see the (C) Shortcuts and the (D) Browse All, where you can navigate to the processes and roles.

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