Summary
The homepage, also known as the dashboard, is the central landing page of your portal.
Who?
All users have access to the portal's homepage. Bynder Admins can restrict this in permission profiles. Users with the manage news and Manage quick links permissions can manage the homepage.
Why?
In the homepage you can find a slider, navigation tiles, news items, quick links, and other widgets. Use news item widgets like sliders, navigation tiles, featured news, and quick links to drive your end users to the assets they need. This allows exceptional customization of your portal homepage at the click of a few buttons.
Understanding:
Alternative Landing Page
After a successful login, all users are redirected to the portal's homepage by default. If the homepage is disabled for your portal, the default landing page will be the Asset Bank overview page.
This feature/solution can only be enabled by your Customer Success Contact.
Welcome Text
You can use the welcome text on the homepage of your portal to communicate with your users. Various headings can be used, and links can be added.
This feature/solution can only be enabled by your Customer Success Contact.
Menu Links
The portal menu plays an essential role in your portal's navigation structure. Menu links give access to the main sections of the portal, such as the Asset Bank, Asset Workflow, Brand Guidelines, and Brand Templates. Menu links can also link to custom pages and external websites.
This feature/solution can only be enabled by your Customer Success Contact.
Navigation Tiles
Navigation tiles can quickly link your users to a specific destination. You can refer to a specific selection of assets in the Asset Bank, a specific collection, or a page on the CX For User Community external website. Users can also select an image for your navigation tile so that users can quickly understand what it is about.
Note: The navigation tile image dimensions are 278px width & 180px height.
Quick Links
Quick Links on your homepage can give you easy access to some of the portal's commonly used sections or pages. They can also be used to link external web pages that you use frequently.
Available Widgets
Bynder Express
Add Bynder Express to your portal's homepage so that users can share their files.
This feature/solution can only be enabled by your Customer Success Contact.
Asset Workflow
You can add widgets that inform users about activities, tasks, inactive jobs, and jobs that need their attention. The display is arranged in the following way: past deadlines, approaching deadlines (soonest to furthest), and no deadlines.
This feature/solution can only be enabled by your Customer Success Contact.
Recently Added Media
The recently added media widget allows users to see recent media on the homepage.
This feature/solution can only be enabled by your Customer Success Contact.
Latest News
The latest news widget is used to display the portal's three most recently published news portals. Clicking on a news item in the widget will always direct you to the news article page. A news article page features one specific news item published in the portal.
Clicking More News… under the featured articles in the latest news widget will direct you to your portal's news overview page, where users can find all published news articles.
Slider
You can use the slider to highlight specific news articles on the homepage and directly link to internal or external pages. The slider automatically goes from one slide to another. You can also hover over the slider with the arrow buttons to browse the available slides.
Note: The slider image dimensions are 1184px width & 320px height.
Login Page Widgets
This allows users to have the same widget on the portal's login and home page.
This feature/solution can only be enabled by your Customer Success Contact.
Restricting Homepage Access
By default, all users have access to the portal's homepage. If desired, you can restrict specific permission profiles from accessing the dashboard.
- Navigate to Portal.
- Go to
Settings > Users & rights > Permission Management.
- Select the permission profile(s) that shouldn't be able to access the homepage in the left sidebar.
- In the Homepage section, enable the Restrict access to the dashboard permission for the selected permission profiles.
- Click Save to save the changes.
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Level: Proficient
Proficient-level articles are for users who have some prior Bynder knowledge. These articles require you to know the basics and may also require higher-level portal rights to accomplish the task outlined within the article.