HighQ Basics

Using the top navigation bar

The Top Navigation Bar is displayed at the top of every page of Collaborate.

Top navigation bar features

The Top Navigation Bar acts as a central hub where you can perform various actions, without needing to return to the Dashboard. The Top Navigation Bar has the following features:
Navigation on small screens
The Top Navigation Bar is condensed on smaller screens, such as smartphones. For example, on a typical screen, the Top Navigation Bar looks like this:
On a smaller screen, click the menu icon to see navigation options:

Dashboard access

On a desktop computer or tablet, click the Dashboard button on the upper left-hand corner of a page to access the Dashboard.
On a smartphone, click the top-left HighQ icon to navigate back to the dashboard:

Site navigation

Site navigation, via the Top Navigation Bar and otherwise, is described here. You can access any site you have been invited to from the Top Navigation Bar, without needing to return to the Dashboard.

Universal search

The Top Navigation Bar provides the ability to perform a search against any content on any site that you can access.
Like all other features within Collaborate, the search function respects security and only returns content that you have permission to access.
In the middle of the Top Navigation Bar, on desktop and tablet devices, is the following search form:
When clicked, this displays the search bar and a menu:
Search box and autosuggest
The search box employs the same autosuggest capabilities found within Collaborate. Start entering text and any matching content (matched from the beginning of a word) will be listed below, with the matching characters highlighted:
The results returned by the autosuggest feature are limited as follows:
  • The autosuggest only returns content in the following categories: people, sites and content that the user has favourited
  • The autosuggest only matches against the name or title of such content, like the name of a person, the title of a file, etc. It will not perform a full-text search of all content. (That can be done by pressing
    Enter
     after typing in the search terms.).
  • Only four results are returned per category. If an expected result is not shown, continue typing to narrow down the results further or perform a full-text search
Filter menu
Use the
Filter
 menu to filter the autosuggest results to one of the following content categories:
  • Site
  • Content Type
  • File Type
  • Modified Date
  • Author
  • Tags
Or select
Advanced Search
 to navigate directly to the
Advanced Search
 page.
Full-text search
To perform a full text search on all of the content in Collaborate that a user has access to, type in the search criteria and press
Enter
. The results will be shown on a new search results page.
Smartphone search
As there is restricted space on a smartphone, the only search option is to perform a full-text search. To perform a search, use the options icon on the top right to access the search field, enter the search terms in the
Search
 field and press
Go
.
The results will be displayed in the
Search Results
 screen.

Profile menu

On the right hand side of the Top Navigation Bar is the Profile Menu, click the user's image to access the profile menu:
Revealing the
Profile Menu
 options:
Each of the options available within this menu is described in more detail on other pages, one of which is to configure the notifications a user will receive either via email or online and to access the user's Profile. The
Profile
 menu also provides access to the Collaborate Knowledge Base (via
Help
 ) and provides the user with the ability to log out.
Next to the
Profile Menu
 button within the Top Navigation Bar are the following options:

Notifications

Click this button to reveal the user's six most recent notifications; described here.

Private messages

Private messages are similar to emails and instant messages. They are a quick and easy way to send a message to one or more users, who will be the only ones capable of viewing and responding to the message.
Assuming the feature has been enabled on the instance of Collaborate being accessed, next to the
Notifications
 button is the
Private Message
 button. Click the button to reveal the list of recent private messages (both sent and received), described here.

Favourites and recent items

Collaborate makes it easy to tag almost any content as a favourite and even easier to view your favourite items. To do so, select
Favourites
 located within the Top Navigation Bar to reveal the list of favourites, as described here.

The optional global navigation bar

The optional global navigation bar can be used to create links that are visible across sites on your instance. A system admin can add and edit links.

This article applies to:

  • Product: HighQ