Userbar

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. 

 

Part Usage

Status

Displays a user's current status.

Switch to another status by selecting the status icon.


User Menu

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.

Messages

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.

Contact Requests

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.

To Dos

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.

Bookmarks

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.

Share a Thought

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.

Pending Uploads

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.

Search Everywhere

Provides the ability to search the workplace for other users and content.

Add Content

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.

Language Selector

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.

Control Panel

Provides enterprise and workplace administrators and users with certain roles access to workplace management and configuration tools.

Not visible to regular users.

Parts of the Userbar