Launchpad

The launchpad provides quick access to your pages, along with other helpful features. Open the launchpad by selecting the Launchpad icon on the main menu bar.

# Description
A The Launchpad icon. Select this icon to open or close the launchpad.
B The Create new record button. See Create a new record for more information.
C

The Your pages and All pages tabs.

  • Your pages displays pages you have marked as favorites on the All pages tab (see F below). When you open the launchpad, Your pages is selected by default. Pages are displayed in the order in which you added them. They can be reordered by dragging and dropping them to a new location.

  • All pages displays all the pages available to you. These pages display in two columns, grouped by category. Categories are sorted alphabetically, as are pages within a category. The pages you see depend on your agency's configuration of Civic Platform.
D The Filter pages field. Enter part or all of a page name to see only matching pages.
E Recent record list. This section displays a list of recently-viewed records. Select a record to open it. You can clear the Recent record list by selecting Clear.
F The favorite star. On the All pages tab, select the star next to the page you want to mark as a favorite and add to the Your pages tab. To remove a page from the Your pages tab, clear the star next to that page.

On the Your pages tab, you can select a new home page (the page that appears when you first open Civic Platform).

To select a new home page

  1. On the main menu bar, select the Launchpad icon .

  2. On the Your pages tab, hover over the desired page and select the icon.

Filtering enables you to locate a page quickly. Filtering is available for both All pages and Your pages. Text you enter in the Filter pages field persists when you move from one tab to another.

To find a page by filtering

  1. On the main menu bar, select the Launchpad icon .

  2. In the Filter pages field, enter part or all of a page name. Results are displayed as you type.

The launchpad provides a list of recently-viewed records. Records display in the order in which they were last accessed, most recent first. The default maximum records that display is 10. This number can be modified by your agency administrator.

You can select any record in the list to launch it in a new space. You can also clear the list by selecting Clear. After clearing the list, an Undo option appears. Selecting Undo restores the items just cleared.

Note: If you close the launchpad after clearing recent items, you can no longer restore them.

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