The Userbar is located at the top of a digital workplace (above the main or primary navigation). The Userbar includes the user's name and status, with a drop-down User Menu for personal information and settings. The Userbar includes quick link icons for commonly used features such as bookmarks and messages, a search box, a button to add content, language settings, and the Control Panel cog.
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Displays a user's current status. Switch to another status by selecting the status icon. |
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Displays the signed-in user's name. Select to display the User Menu options: Dashboard, Profile, Contacts, Subscriptions, Communities, To Dos, Messages, and Sign Out. |
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Displays a user's recent direct messages and workplace broadcasts. Selecting these items provides navigation to the Messages page. Select + New Message to create and send messages to other workplace members. |
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Displays a user's pending contact requests from other workplace members. Accept or Ignore these requests via the provided dialog or navigate to the Contacts page. This icon is only visible when a user has pending contact requests. |
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Displays a count of a user's outstanding Drafts, Approvals, and Tasks. Selecting these To Do items provides navigation to the corresponding personal pages. This icon is only visible when tasks are enabled within a digital workplace. |
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Displays a user's personal and workplace bookmarks, which can be used to navigate to essential workplace locations quickly. Select + Add to add bookmarks to My Bookmarks. Only enterprise and workplace administrators can create and sort Workplace Bookmarks. |
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Provides a shortcut to create posts on Microblogs where a user has at least Write level access. Share a Thought is only visible if an administrator has turned the feature on. |
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Displays a list of files a user has uploaded but not published or saved as a draft. Select files in this list to navigate to the file. This icon is only visible when there are pending uploads. |
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Provides the ability to search the workplace for other users and content. |
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Provides a shortcut to create content. Select + to select the content type to create. Only content types that users have at least Write level access to are visible. |
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Displays the current digital workplace language. Switch to another available language by selecting the language icon. This icon is only visible when the digital workplace has multiple languages turned on. |
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Provides enterprise and workplace administrators and users with certain roles access to workplace management and configuration tools. Not visible to regular users. |