Districts have the option of displaying frequently used websites under the Custom Links area of the Home screen. The Custom links menu options are used to maintain websites displayed as well as whitelist trusted websites.

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Manage Custom Links

Role: Users with Custom Link Manager, District Manager or Admin roles.

The Manage Custom Links options allows users the ability to maintain the district’s accessible websites that are displayed on the Home screen.

Create a Custom Link

1. From the ESS menu, click Manage Custom Links:

2. Click

   1. Enter the website URL, description and website display order on how you want websites to appear on the Home screen.

3. Click to create the custom link or to cancel out of the window without saving changes.

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Custom Link Grid Options

The Custom Link grid allows users the ability to search for existing custom links by clicking on the filter row in the grid columns and entering the desired information.

Available option in the grid include:

• view entire custom link record

• edit a custom link record

• deletes a custom link record

Manage Whitelist

Role: Users with Whitelist Manager, District Manager or Admin roles.

Users with Whitelist Manager role can manage trusted websites that are displayed on the custom links area of the Home screen. If a website has been whitelisted, once a user clicks on it from the Home screen, they will be taken directly to the new site on click. For websites that have not been whitelisted, a dialog box will appear to warn the user they are navigating to the website.

To Create a Whitelist URL

From the ESS menu, under Custom Links, select Manage Whitelist

• Select the display order of how you want whitelisted websites to appear on the Home screen.

• Select the URL would want to whitelist from the dropdown list of URLs

• Click ‘Create’ to save the whitelisted website.

• Click to activate the whitelisted URL.

Whitelist Grid Options

Available options in the grid include:

• view existing whitelisted websites

• edit an existing whitelisted website. Once changes are made, click to enable the changes.

• removes a whitelisted website from the grid.