MediaValet Custom Homepage Overview (Beta)

Step 1: Understand the Layout of Your Custom Homepage

When you log in to MediaValet, you will land on your custom homepage. Your home page may look different from another users' home, depending on how your admin has configured it.

Each homepage includes six main widgets or sections:

1. Welcome Message**
2. Useful Links**
3. Featured Resources (featured categories and featured saved searches)***
4. What’s Happening (notification center)
5. My Favorites
6. Pick Up Where You Left Off

**These widgets are fully configured by your admin and apply to the entire organization. You cannot change these admin-configured sections.

***This widget is configured by your admin according to your user group.

All homepage widgets can be resized based on your preferences. 

You can:

• Adjust the height of a widget
• Adjust the width of a widget

Resize them by hovering over their borders and dragging your mouse. 

Step 2: Use the “What’s Happening” Notification Widget

The What’s Happening widget, located on the right, acts as your notification center. It shows activity and updates on assets you are following or on assets relevant to you and your user profile.

Step 3: Review “Pick Up Where You Left Off”

This widget automatically displays your recent activity, including:

• Categories you visited most recently (e.g., categories visited today)
• Assets you accessed recently
• Collections you recently viewed

You do not manually configure this widget; instead, it reflects your browsing and usage history in the DAM.

Step 4: Review the “My Favorites” Widget

You have full control over the My Favorites widget. This section is where you pin your own frequently used items for quick access.

Within My Favorites, you can pin:

• Categories
• Saved searches

This allows you to build a personalized quick-access area on your homepage.

Step 4b: Pin Favorite Categories to My Favorites

To add favorite categories to My Favorites:

1. Click Explore Categories from within My Favorites.
2. In the Library tab, you will see:
   1. Most Viewed and Recently Uploaded folders at the top
   2. A Pinned Categories section where your admin’s pinned categories appear. (These admin-pinned categories are shown in the Featured Resources section of your home page).

To pin your own categories to My Favorites:

1. Scroll to find a category you frequently visit
2. Click the ellipsis (⋯) menu for that category
3. Select Pin to Myself

Then go back to the homepage to see these categories in the My Favorites section of your home page.

Step 4c: Pin Saved Searches to My Favorites

In the My Favorites area, you can also pin Saved Searches.

If you click on the Advanced Search tab you will see saved searches you have already pinned.

To add more saved searches:

1. Go to the Advanced Search tab, where all your saved searches are listed.

2. Hover over the pin icons next to each saved search:

   a. Greyed-out pins indicate searches pinned by your admin for the entire organization (you cannot change these).

   b. Darker pins are ones you have pinned for yourself and can manage.

   3. Click the pin icon to add this saved search to your favorites.

After pinning:

1. Go back to the homepage
2. Confirm that your saved search now appears in your My Favorites saved searches section for quick access.