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What’s the first thing you do after signing in to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online 2011? Do you navigate away from the default dashboard to another area such as Sales?
Personalization is greatly enhanced in CRM Online 2011 and one of the easiest yet most satisfying ways to personalize CRM Online 2011 is to set your home page. This determines what CRM Online 2011 first displays after you sign in. It’ll save you lots of navigating minutes over the coming months. You’ll wonder why you didn’t do this before!
Note: Any CRM Online user can perform this task. No special security role or permission is required.
Below is a (reduced) screen shot of the default home page that most people see when they first sign in: the Workplace pane and the Dashboards tab. In “breadcrumb navigation” notation, that’s written Workplace > My Work > Dashboards.
Let’s change the home page to something a salesperson might like to start with instead. For example, Sales > Opportunities.
Open the File menu and click Options. (See below.)
A new window opens, titled Set Personal Options (see below). In the General tab, under Select your home page and settings for Get Started Panes, open the Default Pane drop down list and choose the Sales pane as your default pane.
Notice the Default Tab drop down list changes to offer the tabs or areas within Sales. (See below.) Choose the Opportunities tab as your default tab and click OK.
Now when you sign in, CRM Online 2011 displays Sales > Opportunities. (See reduced below.)
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