CATS Home Screen [CATS Knowledge Base]

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=====CATS Home Screen=====
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When you open CATS you will go to your home screen. This screen can be customized per user. If you open CATS and do not see this screen, you will first have to enable it. 
[{{:cats:procedures:homescreen_page.png?900|CATS home screen}}]

====Enabling the Home Screen==== 

Each user has the option to enable/disable the home screen, go to **User Preferences > User Settings**. 
[{{:cats:procedures:userpreferences_usersetting.png?|User settings, appearance tab}}]
Click on the **Appearance** tab. Go to the bottom and click the box labeled **Enable customizable home screen**. Press **Save** to continue. 
[{{:cats:procedures:userpreferences_usersettingappearance.png?|Enable customizable home screen}}]

====Customized Home Screen====

At the top right of the home screen, you will see your user name, preferences and switch user options.
[{{:cats:procedures:homescreen_preferences.png?800|Switch user and preferences}}]
  * **Preferences** - This will take you back to user settings and you can turn off the custom home screen.
  * **Switch User** - Allows you to log in as a different user.

===Element Layout===
Click the **Layout** button on the right side of the screen, to bring up the choices for your layout.

[{{:cats:procedures:homescreen_layout.png?600|Click the layout on the right side of the screen, to bring up the choices for your layout.}}]

Once you click on layout, you will see many options to choose from to personalize the layout of your home screen. The boxes on the left must be checked to show up on the home screen. You can choose as many as you want. 
[{{:cats:procedures:homescreen_elementlayout_001.png?|Element layout}}]
Element layout options:
  * Contracts - Look up or add purchase or sale contracts.
  * Traffic Lookup - Traffic look up by purchase, sale, location #, cargo, warehouse. 
  * Invoices- Search invoices by purchase, sale, account or invoice reference #.
  * My Reports - Shows a list of the last reports printed by your user. The items with the yellow star are the reports you have marked as favorites for your user id. 
  * Sampling - Look up or add samples.
  * Traffic Orders/Forms - Find or add traffic orders.
  * Production - Look up or add production requests.
  * Grades/description - List of product and categories.
  * Show users- Show user and last activity.
  * Open invoices - Open invoices by account.
  * User documents - A list of files opened by this user. 
  * Future Positions - Future positions. 
  * Buyer History - Buyer history.
  * Seller History - Seller history.
  * Credit/ Exposure Summary - Shows exposure, credit or combined. 

You can also change the row or columns in the layout, by clicking on the row or columns boxes next to the element. This will change where the elements are located on your home screen.
[{{:cats:procedures:homescreen_elementlayoutrownumber.png?|Change where the elements are located on your home screen by changing the row/column.}}]

Click on the **''...''** to change the height/width of the box and how big/small it will show up on the home screen. 
[{{:cats:procedures:homescreen_elementlayoutoptions.png?|Click on the ... to change height/width of box}}]

All of the **''...''** boxes do the same thing except for the one for **My reports**. When you click on the **''...''** next to my reports you will also have the option to show recent or starred reports.
[{{:cats:procedures:homescreen_elementlayoutreportoptions.png?|Click on the ... to show recent or starred report}}]
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