Navigating the New M-Pathways

Overview

This document is broken up into sections to help navigate the new look and feel of M-Pathways.

1. Homepage Controls and Glossary of Terms
2. Navigate
3. Personalize
   • Adding a Homepage
   • Set Default Homepage
   • Deleting a Homepage
   • Adding Tiles to a Homepage
   • Deleting Tiles from a Homepage
   • Copy tiles to other Homepages
   • Moving Tiles to other Homepages
   • Moving Tiles on a Homepage
   • Moving Tiles to a Different Homepage
   • Classic Home

Glossary of Terms and Homepage Controls

Glossary of Terms

Homepage	A collection of related information tiles to transactions and M-Pathways pages.
Tile	Provides quick access to targeted transactions. Depending on the homepage, you may not be able to delete and/or move tiles.

Homepage Controls

	Home button	Use to return to the default homepage.
	Search button	Use to perform Global Search.
	Action menu button	Use to display the actions menu. Available actions under this menu while on a homepage: Personalize Homepage - enables a user to personalize a homepage including creating and deleting homepages along with adding, removing, and changing tiles to homepages. Available actions under this menu while on a page: Add to Homepage - adds a tile to the desired homepage, enabling the user to access the page directly from the homepage. Add to NavBar - adds a shortcut to the left-hand side of the NavBar, enabling access to that page directly from the NavBar. Add to Favorites - adds a link to the My Favorites option from the NavBar, similar to traditional Favorites.
	Navigation bar button	Use to enable the navigation bar (NavBar). Available actions under this menu: Recent Places My Favorites - displays specified favorite pages. Navigator - displays the traditional menu structure.

Navigate

To navigate to a homepage, click the drop-down menu.

Note: Homepages display based on the system (FIN, HRMS or SA), role access, and user-created homepages.

To navigate to a page, using a tile, click the associated tile on the homepage.

To navigate using traditional navigation, click the NavBar button in the top right-hand corner. Click Navigator and navigate according to navigation path.

Navigating using the NavBar, use the top button on the left to go back one level, and use the button on the right to go back to the beginning of the navigation.

To find a page using Search, click the Search tile for Student Administration, or the Search icon in the upper right-hand corner for FIN and HRMS, and type the page name.

Personalize

Adding a Homepage

1. Click Personalize Homepage from the Action menu.
2. Click Add Homepage button.
3. Select an item from the list of available Homepages
   OR
   Enter text in the create a new Homepage field.
4. Click Add.
5. Click Save.

Note: To add tiles to your new homepage, see the Adding Tiles to a Homepage section.

Set Default Homepage

You can set a homepage to default when you click the Home button in the upper-right hand corner.

1. Click Personalize Homepage from the Action menu.
2. Locate the homepage in the left-hand column.
3. Click and drag the homepage to the top of the list.
4. Click Save.

Deleting a Homepage

1. Click Personalize Homepage from the Action menu.
2. Locate the homepage in the left-hand column.
3. Click Delete.

Note: You may need to select a different homepage in order for the Delete icon to appear on the homepage you wish to delete.

4. Click Save.

Note: You cannot delete required homepages.

Adding Tiles to a Homepage

There are two ways to add tiles to a homepage, from the Personalize Homepage and from the actual M-Pathways page (e.g., Job Data).

From Personalize Homepage:

1. Navigate to the desired homepage.
2. From the Action menu, click Personalize Homepage.
3. Click Add Tile.
4. Enter desired page in the Search box, or select a page using the navigation below the Search box.
5. Click Save.

   Note: You cannot delete default tiles.

From M-Pathways page:

Note: Some tiles added from M-Pathways pages may not appear on smaller screens (e.g., phone, etc.).

1. Click Action menu.
2. Click Add To Homepage.
3. Choose the appropriate homepage from the list.
4. Click OK to the message prompt.

Deleting Tiles from a Homepage

1. Navigate to the desired homepage.
2. From the Action menu, click Personalize Homepage.
3. Locate the tile you wish to delete from the homepage.
4. Click Delete.
5. Click Save.

Copy Tiles to other Homepages

1. Navigate to the desired homepage.
2. From the Action menu, click Personalize Homepage.
3. Locate the tile you wish to copy from the homepage to another homepage.
4. Click the Action button in the bottom, right-hand corner of the tile.
5. Click Copy To.
6. Select the desired homepage.
7. Click Save.

Moving Tiles to other Homepages

1. Navigate to the desired homepage.
2. From the Action menu, click Personalize Homepage.
3. Locate the tile you wish to copy from the homepage to another homepage.

Note: Moving a tile removes it from the source homepage and it will only appear on the target homepage. To have it appear on both homepages, use the Copy To action.

4. Click the Action button in the right-hand corner of the tile.
5. Click Move To.
6. Select the desired homepage.
7. Click Save.

Drag and Drop Tiles on a Homepage

1. Navigate to the desired homepage.

Note: You can move tiles either directly on the homepage or using Personalize Homepage.

2. Click and hold the tile you want to move and drag it to the desired location.

Note: You must drop a tile onto another tile for it to be moved. Dropping the tile into empty space will not trigger the move feature.

3. When the desired homepage is highlighted, release the hold.

Drag and Drop Tiles to a Different Homepage

1. Navigate to the desired homepage.
2. From the Action menu, click Personalize Homepage.
3. Click and hold the tile you want to move and drag it to the desired homepage in the left-hand column, where each homepage is listed.
4. When the desired homepage is highlighted, release the hold.
5. Click Save.

Classic Home (Student Administration Only)

1. Click Classic Home from the NavBar menu.
2. Click Content link (upper right-hand corner).
3. Click Menu-Classic.
4. Click Save.