The mTAB™ home page is the screen every user sees when they first log in to mTAB™.

Named My mTAB™ Desktop, this page is their access point to all aspects of the mTAB™ system.

To explain the look of this page, lets break it down by its features:

Header Menu

This is the small menu to the top right and only has 3 items on it, which are fairly self explanatory.

• Home – returns the user to this screen. This is useful if they have ventured in to the admin, support or help screens and wish to return to the main mTAB™ screen.

• About – provides a pop up window with the details of the current build of mTAB™. This is the same as the pop up that appears now when you click Help, About from the mTAB™ client itself.

• Logout – simply logs you out and returns you to the main login screen.

Client Logo

This is the small logo to the top right and allows the client to give the page their own identity.

Group Logo

This is the small logo to the top left and allows the client to provide specific logos for each user group.

Client Name

This is the title text between the two logos. It displays the name of the client or group.

Main Menus

This is beneath the Client Name and is a dual layered system, with main menu headings across the top and sub-menu items dropping down below them. The general layout includes Support, Manage Resources, Tools and Admin. Which sub-menu items are available when an item is selected will depend on the user’s access level.

Next, within the large box that we have in the center of our new page layout, we have the following:

The New Studies panel

This contains a list of all studies added to the user’s account/updated since they last logged in.

The New Tabs panel

This contains a list of all tabs added to the user’s account/updated since they last logged in.

The All Tabs panel

This lists all tabs that the user has access to in their folder structure.

The Favorite Tabs panel

This displays the user’s top 10 favorite tabs. Favorite is defined as the 10 tabs that this user has run most frequently during the last 60 days.

All panels are scrolling list boxes with space to display 10 rows. Double-Clicking on an item in any of these lists will open that item directly in to mTAB™.

Finally, there is an icon that looks like the outline of the main mTAB™ screen and has the words Open mTAB™ on it. Clicking on the icon or on the blue, click here arrow immediately to its right will open the mTAB™ client.

Graphical User Interface Explained