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.. _home_page_and_navigation_target:

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EDG Home Page and Navigation
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Many EDG views are oriented toward a particular type of asset collection, such as *taxonomy*, *ontology*, *data asset collection*, etc.
Every view has a header that provides create new collections, a collections navigation menu, breadcrumb navigation, search, and special application links.

The main home view, shown below, provides access to top-level EDG searches and other personalized widgets. See below for customizing the EDG landing page.


.. figure:: _images/EDG-7-2.jpg
  :alt: TopBraid EDG Home Page
  :align: center
  :class: edg-figure

  **TopBraid EDG Home Page**



1. *Create New*: Initiates creating a new EDG collection. (see more below)
2. *Basket*: Each user can maintain a personal list of “bookmarked” asset collections or individual assets in their *Basket*.
3. *User menu*: Contains links and system information.
4. *Collections menu*: Provides quick access to Asset Collections and the collection home page. (see more below)
5. *System Announcements*: Announcements can be set by Administrators. (see more below)
6. *Workflow summary*: Shortcut to the logged on users open workflows.
7. *My Tasks*: This widget is a personal view of open tasks assigned to the user.
8. *What’s Happening*: Lists important actions of users in the EDG system.
9. *Search*: Combination search feature. Search for application wide faceted searching across selected EDG resources or Global Lookup which searches across all EDG resources by label prefix.
10. *Recently Viewed Collections*: This widget is a personal view of the last 5 collections viewed by the user.
11. *My Governance Roles*: This widget shows which Subject Areas a user is a member of and their Governance Role within that Subject Area.
12. *Asset Collection Summary*: Counts of each Collection in the EDG system. Users actual count may differ depending on permission to collections.



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.. include:: ./collection_type_pages.rst.txt
.. include:: ./user_directory.rst.txt
.. include:: ./announcements.rst.txt
.. include:: ./customizing_the_home_page.rst.txt

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