March 2020 Product Adoption Tip: Assigning Favorites in Document Explorer

Document Explorer: Assigning Favorites

When adding a new user to Prophix, it is useful to highlight key files within Document Explorer for ease of access. You can achieve this by adding files to a user’s or group’s favorites.

Steps

  • Open Document Explorer and locate a file you would like to assign.
  • Then select the file by click in the check mark button.

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  • Click on the Actions drop down and choose one of the following options: Add to User(s), or Add to All Users. In this case we shall choose Add to User(s).

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  • Now you can select the users you would like to apply this favorite to by double clicking them. Note that you can choose either individual users or groups denoted by the icon to the left of the user list (groups have an orange icon and individual users have a blue icon).

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  • Select Ok.

If you have any questions regarding this tip, submit a ticket to speak with our Product Adoption Team or comment below.

I love this! I do this when adding new users and I know what reports they will use the majority of the time

This is a task handled by our admin so I do not have access to it

This is very interesting. Thank you so very much for sharing

Great tip. Looking forward to using it

This is very simple! Appreciate that!

I have a group within security manager and then I have a few templates assigned to this group using favorites. However it seems that when I add new users to the group the favorite don’t automatic get assigned to the new user I have added to the group. I have to always go back into favorites and either add the reports to the one user or the group again. Is there any way to automate this and not have to take the additional steps?

This is a great tip. We use it for each of our users. We put the reports that they will use the most on their “My Favorites” for easy access.

We use it to provide users quick access to related reports.

This was instrumental in our rollout. We were able to put our users reports that they would be using conveniently on a dashboard on the home screen.

This help other users to navigate document explorer much more easy and faster.

Great tip! We don’t use this a lot now, but it seems very helpful!

Something easy that a lot of people don’t use!

I would interested in learning more about the security manager way of dealing with favourites centrally. I will book a CSP call to explore - thanks all.

We use this on a regular basis, and update as needed.

Thank you for this. I was just looking for something to achieve this and your post/instructions were really useful, thanks again

I wish we could put more than 10 items in the favorites window on the dashboard.

We haven’t utilized this but it will be helpful when pushing out the budget to specific users out in the field

Quick access is important and this helps!

This is very interesting. Thank you!