Customize Your Home Screen

Your Home screen is a place where you can access your recent stories and visualizations as tiles. You can also add useful reminders such as personal notes.

When you start SAP Analytics Cloud, the Home screen displays tile-like widgets to help you get started working on your analytics tasks.

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Your Home screen is private and you can't share it with other users or add it to discussions. This also applies to the notes and tiles you pin there.

Select one of the following options from the Get Started widget:

Explore a sample story: Explore a feature-rich story to help familiarize you with key SAP Analytics Cloud capabilities.
Create your first story: Quickly launch the story creation process.
Change your profile settings: Access your profile settings including contact details, display language preference, and a display name.
Learn more in the help center: Access the SAP Analytics Cloud help topics, release notes, and instructional videos.

On the Home screen, you can also display tiles for Featured Files and Recent Files. The Recent Files tile lists the most recent files you have viewed. You can use the tile filter to view specific file types (including stories, presentations, and analytic applications).

Adding or removing tiles from the Home screen

To add or remove a tile from the Home screen, click your Profile avatar in the upper-right corner, select Home Screen Settings, and select or deselect the item you want to add or remove.

Featuring files on the Home screen

Administrators can make content easier for end users to access by adding the Featured Files tile to their Home screen.

To include a file in Featured Files:

From the side navigation, choose Files.
Select the System icon from the menu bar to the left of the file list.
Search and select the file(s) you want to feature, and then select the Featured Files icon from the toolbar.

Changing the Home screen background and logo

You can customize the display background and the logo displayed on the Home screen.

Click your Profile avatar in the upper-right corner, and select Home Screen Settings.
Select an option from the Background list.
To change the currently displayed logo, select an option from the Logo list and choose OK.

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If you want to brand your background with your company logo, select Custom Choose Logo to access the file containing your custom logo.

Creating a Note

You can create a note to add text alongside the stories and other items pinned to your Home screen:

Click your Profile avatar in the upper-right corner, and select New Home Screen Note to display the New Note dialog.
Enter a title for the note and the text.
Choose OK to create your note and pin it to the Home screen.

Today, Catalog, Favorites, and Shared with Me tabs

These tabs are available on the home screen:

Today: This tab is the default tab. It contains the tiles and notes that you've pinned.
Catalog: This is a single access point for content published for users within SAP Analytics Cloud. Each published item is displayed as a card. For more information, see Enable Content Discoverability with the Analytics Catalog.
Favorites: This tab lists the resources you have chosen to  favorite.
Shared With Me: This tab lists all the resources shared with you by other users.

You can choose which one of the tabs is displayed by default when you click Home:

Click your Profile avatar in the upper-right corner, and select Home Screen Settings.
Select a tab from the Default Tab list.

Working with Tiles and Notes

You can do the following after selecting a tile or note:

Task	More Information
Edit a note	Choose Preferences to edit the note text and title.
Navigate to a story	If the tile is part of a story, choose the Go to to open the source story. If you edit and save the story, the changes are reflected in the tile.
Delete a tile or note	Choose Delete to remove a tile or note from the Home screen.
View a tile in Full Screen mode	This option only applies to chart tiles. Choose (Full Screen) to expand the tile to the full size of the Home screen. Choose (Exit Full Screen) to return.