3 Customizing the Homepage for a WET
Each Homepage shows four customizable blocks:
• Header, with Principles and Tips
• Scope
• Quick access
• Favorite report
3.1 Accessing the Homepage Properties
The first three blocks are defined in the homepage properties associated with the profile.
Note: Part of the Header can also be customized by each Functional Administrator of a Solution (Web Frent-End).
To access the Homepage properties associated with a profile:
1. Connect to Hopex with the Hopex Customizer profile.
2. Display the MetaStudio tab (View > Navigation Windows > MetaStudio).
3. Access the Homepage Properties associated with the profile:
a. In the Profiles > Used profiles – Using profiles folder, right-click the profile concerned and select Properties.
E.g.: Enterprise Architect profile.
b. From the Characteristics tab, access its Homepage properties.
E.g.: “Enterprise Architect” homepage.
Alternative: from Home Pages folder, right-click the homepage, associated with the profile concerned, and select Properties.
3.2 Customizing the Left Header: Principles
The left header, or Principles, includes:
• a title
E.g.: My priorities
The title is defined on the profile associated homepage.
• three links (the Strategic Themes) retrieved by a query
The query retrieves the first three Strategic Themes defined for the Covered Domain (Methodological Domain) of the current profile:
Select [Strategic Theme] Where [Methodological Domain].[Applicable Profile] &"CurrentProfile" Order By [Name]
The strategic themes are accessible from the profile.
You can:
• keep the query and modify the title and/or the Strategic Themes displayed.
The Strategic Themes can also be modified in Hopex (Web Front-End) with the Administrator of the Solution.
• modify the query.
To customize the Principles (header left part):
1. Access the Homepage properties associated with the Profile.
E.g.: Enterprise Architect homepage.
2. Display its Principles tab.
The Principles section defines the Principles (header left part)
3. Access the properties of the Homepage Principle:
• the _GUIName field defines the title.
• the Objectives Query field defines the query that retrieves the links.
4. To modify the query, in the Objectives Query field, connect another query.
5. To customize the title, in the _GUIName field, enter another title.
6. To customize the links, modify the Strategic Theme items associated with the profile:
a. Explore the profile.
b. Expand Covered Domain > <Methodological Domain name> folder.
c. Select Strategic Theme folder.
d. In the right pane, for each item, you can modify:
• the Local Name
• the link
e. You can also create a Strategic theme: right-click Strategic Theme folder, click New and enter a Name.
The Strategic Theme items are sorted by alphabetical order, and the query retrieves the first three of them.
To modify the Strategic Theme items in Hopex (Web Front-End):
The Administrator of a Solution can customize the Strategic Themes of each profile linked to the Solution (in Hopex Web Front-End).
1. Connect to Hopex with the Functional Administrator Profile of the Solution.
2. Access Administration > Methodological Domains > <name of the methodological domain associated with the profile> > Strategic Theme folder.
3. To modify a Strategic theme:
a. Access its Properties, then display its Characteristics page.
b. In the Name field, modify the name of the link.
4. To create a Strategic Theme:
a. Hover the cursor over Strategic Theme and click 
.
.b. In the Name field, enter the name of the link.
The Strategic Theme items are sorted by alphabetical order, and the query retrieves the first three of them.
3.3 Customizing the Right Header: Tips
The right header, or Tips, includes:
• a title
E.g.: Need Help?
The title is defined on the profile associated homepage.
• a content displaying two links
This content displays the Domain Help description linked to the Covered Domain (Methodological Domain) defined for the current Profile.
It is retrieved by the following query:
Select [Domain Help] Where [Methodological Domain].[Applicable Profile] &"Current Profile"
The Domain Help description can also be modified in Hopex (Web Front-End) with the Administrator of the Solution.
You can:
• keep the query and modify the title and/or the Domain Help description displayed
• modify the query
To customize the Tips (header right part):
To keep the query and customize the links and/or title, you need to modify the Domain Help associated with the profile.
1. Explore the profile.
2. Expand Covered Domain > <Methodological Domain name> > Domain Help folder.
3. Right-click the domain help and select Properties.
4. In the Characteristics tab, customize the Tips block:
• In the MetaPicture field: connect another picture
• In the Domain Help Title field: enter another title
• In the pane: modify the text and links
To modify the query (header right part):
To modify the query, you need to modify the query defined in the Homepage associated with the profile.
1. Access the Homepage properties associated with the Profile.
E.g.: Enterprise Architect homepage.
2. Display its Characteristics tab.
The Tips from Query field defines the query that retrieves the items.
3. From the Tips from Query field, access the query properties:
• the _GUIName field defines the title.
• the Query Code tab defines the query code that retrieves the Domain Help Description.
4. From the Tips from Query field, connect another query.
To customize the Tips in Hopex (Web Front-End):
The Administrator of a Solution can customize the links (Domain Help) of each profile linked to the Solution (in Hopex Web Front-End).
1. Connect to Hopex with the Administrator Profile of the Solution.
2. Access Administration > Methodological Domains > <name of the methodological domain associated with the profile> > Domain Help folder.
3. In the Properties of the domain help, display its Characteristics page.
4. Modify the Description.
3.4 Customizing the Scope Block
The Scope block displays a maximum of three scope items. For better readability, each of them should include a maximum of five indicators.
You can:
• create a scope item
• modify an existing scope item:
• its title and indicators
• the indicator order
• each indicator display type: count (by default) or percentage.
With the percentage type, you can define a total count different than the maximum one.
• modify the scope item display order
To customize the Scope block:
1. Access the Homepage properties associated with the Profile.
E.g.: Enterprise Architect homepage.
2. Display its Scopes tab.
3. To modify an existing scope item:
a. In the Available Scope Items section, select the scope item.
b. To modify the title, in its _GUIName field, enter another title.
c. To modify the indicators, in its Tiles section, connect the tiles corresponding to the indicators you want to display.
E.g.: “Hopex V6 – EA Baseline – Tile – critical applications”.
Reorganize the tiles so as to display the indicators as required, else remove the indicators you are not interested in.
d. To modify the indicator display order, in the Tiles section, click Reorganize and modify (drag and drop) their order.
E.g.: move “Critical applications” to the fifth position.
e. To modify an indicator display, in the corresponding Tile Properties > Characteristics, modify its CountType field value:
• Cardinal (by default)
• Percentage
E.g.: display the “Critical applications” indicator in “Percentage”.
The “Critical applications” indicator shows the percentage of “Critical applications” out of all the applications:
f. (With an indicator in percentage) To modify the total count: in the corresponding Tile Properties > Characteristics, in the Tiled System Object Out Of field connect the query that calculates the total count.
E.g.: the count of “Applications in production”.
The “Critical applications” indicator shows the percentage of critical applications that are in production.
4. To create a Scope item:
a. In the Available Scope Items section, click New.
b. Access the scope item properties.
c. In the Scope section, enter its Name and _GUIName (title).
d. In the Tiles section, connect the tiles corresponding to the indicators you want to display.
e. To modify the Scope item order, in the Available Scope Items section, click Reorganize and modify their order as required.
E.g.: Move the “Inventory” Scope Item to the middle.
The “Inventory” and “Risk and compliance” Scope Items are swapped.
3.5 Customizing the Quick Access Block
By default, the Quick access block includes the following tabs:
• Recently viewed (mandatory)
• Favorites (mandatory)
• Actions
You can:
• modify the Quick Access title
• modify or remove the Actions tab
• create, add, and remove tabs
• reorganize the tab order
To customize the Quick Access block:
1. Access the Homepage properties associated with the Profile.
E.g.: Enterprise Architect homepage.
2. Display its Quick Access tab.
3. In the Quick Access section, access the HomePage QuickAccess Item properties.
4. To modify the Quick Access title: in the QuickAccess Item section, modify the _GuiName.
5. To modify the actions: in the Available Actions field, access the “Enterprise Architect – Quick Access” MetaCommand Group properties.
Its Component tab displays the available actions (MetaCommand items).
6. You can modify the Actions tab:
• Remove an action from the Actions Tab: select the MetaCommand item and click Remove.
• Add an action to the Actions Tab: click Connect and select the MetaCommand item.
E.g.: New Gauge report
The Action New gauge report is added to the Quick access block.
• Modify the action display position: click Reorganize and move (drag and drop) the items according to the display you want. Items are displayed from left to right, and top to bottom.
Note: if the MetaCommand item is defined by a macro, it must include a SuspendedParameterizedTool.
7. To add a tab:
In the Quick Access tab, Available Parameterized Tool section, connect the MEGA Parameterized Tool.
E.g.: “EA – Baseline – Application - List” and “EA – Baseline – Technologies - List”.
Both new tabs (Applications and Technologies) are added to the Quick Access:
8. To modify the tab order, in the Quick Access tab, Available Parameterized Tools section, click Reorganize 
, drag and drop the item to the required position and click OK.
, drag and drop the item to the required position and click OK.
3.6 Defining the Default Report
The default report is the report associated with the profile.
To modify the default report:
1. Access the profile properties.
2. In its Characteristics tab, in the Homepage Report field, click the arrow and connect a report.
The report is defined by default for all the users connected with this profile.
Users can change the default report by another report.