I saw a tweet from CRM MVP Jukka Niiranen @jukkan mentioning there was a new tool on codeplex which allows you design your own start page.
This sounds interesting particularly as I still find getting around CRM 2013 a little bit on the slow side but this could be because I have been conditioned to go to use the left hand menu which is no more.
There is already a tool called quick navigate which does almost exactly the same thing except it doesn’t let you edit what you show on the start screen.
I have done a quick video looking at the tool and going through the process of installing and uninstalling
Here is what Easy Navigate looks like
It’s easy to install and use.
There is a little trick to uninstalling it, you have to uninstall it inside the easy navigate solution first before you delete the solution. I was momentarily dumbstruck when it wasn’t letting me delete the solution.
It makes navigating CRM a lot quicker when you first open CRM, particularly if you want to go to Solutions or customizations because I can get there in one click rather than the two or more in the default navigation method.
If you are not a CRM Admin (which automatically gets all new security roles ) then you need to assign EasyNavigate security role to any users who want to use it. I haven’t got any other users in CRM 2013 trial so I’m not sure how it works with regards to security privileges of the user and if they can view only the entities they are allowed but it wouldn’t really matter because if they clicked on it they couldn’t see anything so why would they
Here is my new default start, got rid of marketing and service and moved case to sales.
The only down side I can see is it isn’t easy to add the tiles back once you have got rid of them.
Here is the link to the codeplex project page so you can download it yourself
http://easynavigate.codeplex.com/
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