Description of the HOPEX Explorer Desktop
All HOPEX Explorer desktops appear as follows:
The HOPEX Explorer (tablet) desktop includes:
• a toolbar
• navigation tabs to display the lists and trees of available objects in the navigation zone.
• a breadcrumb to access the last pages already viewed (in the same context).
• a navigation area to view objects.
By default, you are working in browse mode. If required, and depending on your profile, a button is available to switch to edit mode as necessary.
Toolbar
The toolbar is common to all HOPEX Explorer desktops and available in all pages of the HOPEX Explorer desktop:
• 
the quick search bar enables to perform:
the quick search bar enables to perform:• full-text searches (the repository must be indexed). and
• searches by object type.
See Searching Objects.• 
Refresh enables to immediately update all the open windows in your desktop when you modify the name or value of an object attribute (trees, lists, property pages, diagrams).
Refresh enables to immediately update all the open windows in your desktop when you modify the name or value of an object attribute (trees, lists, property pages, diagrams).• 
indicates the number of unread notifications and provides access to notifications.
indicates the number of unread notifications and provides access to notifications.• 
Main menu:
Main menu:• displays the name of the HOPEX user used for mapping and its connection characteristics (profile, repository, environment).
• enables to switch to another profile without logging out from HOPEX.
• enables modification of data display language.
• gives access to settings: options, alerts, personal parameters reset, license information, HOPEX version.
• gives direct access to MEGA Community page.
• 
Logout enables disconnection from the HOPEX Explorer desktop.
Logout enables disconnection from the HOPEX Explorer desktop.Navigation Tabs
The following tabs are common to all HOPEX Explorer desktops:
• Home, which provides quick access to objects (via tiles), to the Documentation and to options.
See The Home Page.• Dashboard, which provides access to your widgets.
The other navigation tabs are specific to the profile used for connection to HOPEX Explorer.
• Each navigation tab has a drop-down list; each menu thus provides access to a page with its associated tiles.
When you click the tab itself, it displays one of these pages.
Example: The Application Architecture tab displays the Functional Architecture page.
• Each menu is used to display the tiles that give access to the lists and trees of objects available with your connection profile.
To the far right of the navigation menus, the Collaboration 
menu enables to display the collaboration tabs.
menu enables to display the collaboration tabs.Collaboration Tabs
The tabs in the Collaboration window display the collaboration information concerned for the object selected in another window on your desktop.
To display a Collaboration feature:
1. From your HOPEX Explorer desktop, click the edit area display button for Collaboration .
.The Collaboration window appears and provides access to the following tabs:
• Review Notes
• Social
• Ideation
2. Select the tab that corresponds to the feature concerned.
3. Select an object in another window.
The corresponding collaboration information for the object appears in the tab concerned.
Breadcrumb
The breadcrumb is available on all HOPEX Explorer desktops. It keeps the last pages (in the same context) that you viewed so you can reopen them easily if needed.
The breadcrumb trail is reset when you change context.
Navigation Zone
By default, on connection to HOPEX Explorer, the desktop opens in browse mode and displays the Home page with:
• connection profile specific tiles, which give direct access to a list of objects.
Example: the list of all your applications.
• quick access generic tiles.
Eg.: the Help tile to access online documentation.
See The Home Page.• an add tile button 
.
.To customize your Home page, see Customizing the Home Page of your Desktop.