Home Dashboard overview

The
Home Dashboard
enables you to bundle sources of information onto a single screen using portlets. Within this dashboard, you can view system information, web pages, a firm-wide news feed, RSS feeds, the Tax & Accounting Community (formerly ARNE), the CS website and Help and Support, resources for working in Practice CS, websites for PPC and Checkpoint, and news from Practice CS and Thomson Reuters.
To open the Home Dashboard, select
View
, then
Home Dashboard
.
note
  • Home Dashboard portlets, including custom portlets, are also available on other dashboards.
  • The Home Dashboard is user-specific. No one else can view your
    Home Dashboard
    .
  • If you access Practice CS through Virtual Office CS or Software as a Service (SaaS), the web-browsing capabilities of Practice CS are limited to sites related to Thomson Reuters. This ensures that any browsing restrictions in place within your firm are honored. Consequently, the
    RSS News Feed
    and
    Web Page
    custom portlet types are not available.
  • The
    System Information
    portlet is not available to users who access Practice CS through Virtual Office CS or Software as a Service (SaaS).