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Forsta Plus Homepage
The Forsta Plus Homepage - is common to the majority of the Forsta Plus applications. When you first log in to Forsta Plus this page opens, and it provides access to all the Forsta Plus applications that you are licensed to use - click the appropriate icon to go to that application. Note that if you are not licensed to use an application, its icon will not be displayed in the page.
Figure 1 - Example of the Forsta Plus Homepage
Note: Applications that do not yet have a waffle icon have beside the application name. These will open in a new window, allowing this Homepage to remain open while you are working in the selected application.
A list of new features and functionality currently accessible to you under "Limited availability" is presented on the right side of the Homepage. These items are still undergoing development, but are made available for testing purposes if your company has agreed to trial them. Please note that use of this new functionality for production work is at your own risk.
Waffle Icon
The Waffle icon in the main toolbar is common to the majority of the Forsta Plus applications. Click the icon to open a selection overlay providing access to all the other Forsta Plus applications which you are licensed to use. If you are logged in to a Forsta Plus application and you wish to change to a different application, click the waffle icon and click the appropriate icon - . Note that if you are not licensed to use an application, its icon will not be displayed in the overlay.
Figure 2 - The application selection overlay
Icons with an “arrow” icon open Authoring or Reportal, icons without the arrow take you directly to the selected application. Refer to the separate documentation for further information on these applications.
The Hierarchies button beside the waffle icon is always available while you are in Hierarchy Management, and returns you directly to the Hierarchies list.
Hierarchy List
When you go to the Hierarchy Management item in the Forsta Plus Homepage or the waffle overlay, the Hierarchy List page opens - . This page lists all the hierarchies that you have access to.
Figure 3 - Example of the Hierarchy List
The total number of hierarchies available to you is given beside the Search field. The list is sorted descending by last modified, so the most recently updated hierarchy will be at the top. For each hierarchy, the list shows the hierarchy name (blue text), the Id number (black text below the name), the user who created it, the date it was created and the date it was last modified. In addition, launched surveys and contact databases that use that hierarchy are given in the Used In column.
In the event your list of hierarchies is extensive, you can search for the desired hierarchy. Type characters into the Search box; the list is immediately filtered such that only those hierarchies containing the character string you have typed are listed. The search facility will look through the hierarchy names, the users’ first names, last names and user ID using the “contains” operator, and the hierarchy will be included in the list if any of its parameters contain the character string anywhere within it. You can also search for the hierarchy ID, but in this case only a full match will be found (a search for 123 will only return hierarchy 123, not hierarchy 1234 etc.).