Feature Focus: Personalized User Home Pages

CAST Highlight enables you to define the content of your home page by adding widgets that display the insights that matter the most to you. Learn how to use the feature in this article.

CAST Highlight supports a wide variety of use cases (Open Source risks, Cloud Readiness, Software Health, etc.) and some users may want to focus on specific areas of software intelligence.

For instance, a Cloud architect may want to quickly see Cloud-related insights first when she or he connects to the product; a security team may want to immediately understand open source risks across their application portfolio; a CIO may want to get a comprehensive view across the portfolio and see progress towards current milestones.

To improve usability, CAST Highlight now allows you to define personalized home pages, for you only or for all users of your portfolio. Here is how it works.

The first step consists of creating or editing a custom dashboard. A custom dashboard is a configurable page where you can add content widgets such as tiles (e.g., Cloud Maturity score, Open Source Security score, etc.), data tables with specific columns, bubble or column charts, current milestones, etc.

Once you design your custom dashboard, save it, and click on the edit button. From here, you have a couple options:

Define as your homepage: if you want this custom dashboard to be the home page of your current user only, turn this option ‘ON’ and click on the ‘Save’ button
Share dashboard on company: as a Portfolio Manager, if you want this custom dashboard to be the home page for all users of your CAST Highlight portfolio, turn this option ‘ON’ as well as the previous option and click on the ‘Save’ button

Note that all user roles (Portfolio Managers, Result Viewers, Contributors) can design their own home page, even if a company-level home page has been designed already. In this case, they will see the two different home pages (Company and User) in dedicated tabs.