When you open CATS you will go to your home screen. This screen can be customized per user.

CATS home screen

If you open CATS and do not see this screen, you will first have to enable it. To enable your home screen, go to User Preferences > User Settings.

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.

Enable customizable home screen

At the top right of the home screen, you will see your user name, preferences and switch user options.

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.

Click the Layout button 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.

Element layout

Here are the following options:

• Contracts - Look up or add purchase or sale contracts.
• Traffic Lookup - Traffic look up by purchase, sale, location , cargo, warehouse.
• Invoices-
• My Reports
• Sampling
• Traffic Orders/Forms
• production
• Grades/dexription
• Show users
• Open invoices
• User documents
• Future Positions
• Buyer History
• Seller History
• Credit/ Exposure Summary