# Welcome Page

The **Welcome Page** is displayed when you sign in to.

The **Menu Bar** displayed on the top of the Welcome Page is displayed on every page in the platform. The menu bar includes:

* &#x20;logo\
  Access the Welcome Page from anywhere in the platform
* **Institution** menu\
  Access Clients, Groups, and Centers&#x20;
* **Accounting** menu\
  Access the Accounting activities pages&#x20;
* **Reports** menu\
  Access Clients, Loans, Savings, Funds, Accounting, and XBRL Reports
* **Admin** menu\
  Access the Administration menu
* **Search** tool\
  System-wide Search Tool—use the search tool to search for clients, groups, and centers&#x20;
* &#x20;menu \
  Access to **Help** (*redirects to the User Manual*), **Profile** (*your user profile, including an option to change your password*), **Settings** (*to change user language and date format*), and **Log Out** button

The **Dashboard** toggle switches between this page (Welcome page) and the Dashboard page.

Your username will appear beside the word **Welcome**. If your username is not displayed, contact your administrator.

The **activity search** tool is a quick method to find and navigate to activities / pages in the platform. For example, if you want to access an activity related to loans, type "loan" into the activity search field. Loan-related activities will be listed (i.e create loan product, loan products, bulk loan reassignment). You can then click on the desired loan activity. Similarly, you can access activities related to clients, savings products, groups, and more.

The **navigation hints** point out navigation methods that are available to you wherever you are in LMS, including:

* Shortcut menu (sidebar)
* menu bar
* Search tool (located on the menu bar)

The **Shortcut** menu is a sidebar menu of your favorite / most frequently used activities. You can configure the Shortcut sidebar to suit your work style. The Shortcut sidebar will pop out when you hover the mouse over the menu area. The Shortcut sidebar is available on every page in the system.
