Understanding Homepages and Dashboard Pages

Classic homepages and dashboards are PeopleSoft pages that aggregate and display pagelets that share some common or similar purpose. Tiles are the PeopleSoft fluid user interface equivalent of pagelets. Therefore, similar to classic homepages and dashboards, fluid homepages and dashboards aggregate tiles that share some common or similar purpose. Homepages and dashboards provide quick access to useful information by presenting concise but feature-rich pagelets or tiles to the user. These pagelets and tiles can vary in function and complexity, enabling users to see not only an overview, but to drill into the data to access more granular and detailed information.

In these topics, the terms homepage and tabbed homepage are used interchangeably. In addition, the terms dashboard and dashboard page are used interchangeably.

A fluid homepage or dashboard can contain sections. A section is a collection of tiles under a categorization label that generalizes the purpose of the tiles in that section.

The term standard homepage or dashboard is used to refer to fluid homepages or dashboards without sections. The term standard is also used to refer to the area at the top of a sectionalized homepage or dashboard where tiles that are not assigned to any sections are placed.

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The labels of system-defined homepages and dashboards are translatable; however, personalized labels of homepages and dashboards are not translatable—this applies to personal fluid homepages as well as the personalized labels of fluid homepages, fluid dashboards, classic homepages and classic dashboards.