The individual areas of the program interface are briefly explained in the following.

1 My ELO button

Click the My ELO button to open the My ELO work area. The My ELO work area is on the home screen when you open ELO.

Alternative: Use the CTRL + WINDOWS keyboard shortcut to open your My ELO start screen.

Here, you will find your news and most recently used entries (6), as well as the tile navigation (7).

If My ELO is highlighted in green, this means you have news in My ELO.

2 Navigation bar

The navigation bar gives you quick access to several work areas in ELO. You can quickly switch to work areas without having to go to the My ELO home screen.

You can pin all areas available as tiles in My ELO to the navigation bar by right-clicking the tile.

You will find more information on the different work areas in the Work areas chapter.

3 Ribbon

When you are in a work area, you can access functions on the ribbon.

The ribbon provides access to almost all ELO functions.

Information: Some functions can also be called from the context menu. Right-click an entry in ELO to open the context menu.

Tabs: The ribbon is organized into tabs. Some tabs are always shown (default tabs), while others only appear when the tab functions can be used (contextual tabs).

The default tabs are:

• Favorites: This tab contains several important functions by default. You can add other functions.
• New
• View
• Output
• Organize
• Task

The contextual tabs are:

• Document: This tab appears when you select a document.
• Search: This tab appears when you click the Search work area.
• Clipboard: This tab opens when copying, referencing, or moving entries.

Functions: The functions are arranged logically by relation. The most important functions are pinned to the ribbon. Others can be found in drop-down menus. If a function is grayed out, you cannot use it at your current position in ELO.

Search functions: You can search for functions using the search field. Clicking a function in the results list performs the function.

4 Active substitutions

You can substitute for other users or be substituted for by others. You will recognize both of these cases based on the person icon.

• Orange person: A substitute is currently set for you.
• Blue person: You are currently substituting for at least one user.

Clicking the icon opens more information on your substitutions.

5 User menu [your name]

Clicking the User menu [your name] button opens a drop-down menu. This menu takes you to areas where you can configure settings for your user account. You can also log off at the end of your session here.

6 Profile

Clicking this button takes you to your profile. In your profile, you can enter information on your professional background, your contact data, and upload a profile picture.

7 News/recently used

This area is made up of two tabs.

The News tab helps you keep track of changes in ELO.

You will see feed posts from different entries here. Some examples include feeds you have subscribed to or in which you have been mentioned by another user.

In addition, you will see trending hashtags, your substitutions, and escalated or recently started workflows relevant for you.

From the Recently used tab, you can go to entries that you recently used.

For more information, refer to the My ELO and Feed chapters.

7 Tile navigation

The tile navigation contains all available tiles. Tiles can be used to represent work areas, views, search favorites, and ELO apps. The following tiles are shown by default:

• ELO (or the name of your repository; this is the Repository work area)
• Search
• Tasks
• In use
• Clipboard

Tiles are organized into groups.

You can change how the tile navigation area looks and customize it based on your needs. For more information, refer to the chapter Personalize client.