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Using the Discover page
HCL Notes® opens to the Discover page by default, unless you set up Notes to open to an application, such as Mail or Calendar, or to a customized home page. The default Discover page is a central location from which you can find targeted Notes client information more quickly and easily, including new features in the release, introductory material for new users, and helpful hints and tips. There is also a Quick Links tab that allows you to launch your workspace, Mail, Calendar, and other Notes applications you have recently used.
How do I customize my home page?
Once you have created a home page, you can change the content and rearrange the layout of the page at any time.
Refreshing home page content
If you make changes in an application that is also displayed on a home page, you must refresh its frame on the home page to see those changes reflected on the home page.

Using the Discover page
HCL Notes® opens to the Discover page by default, unless you set up Notes to open to an application, such as Mail or Calendar, or to a customized home page. The default Discover page is a central location from which you can find targeted Notes client information more quickly and easily, including new features in the release, introductory material for new users, and helpful hints and tips. There is also a Quick Links tab that allows you to launch your workspace, Mail, Calendar, and other Notes applications you have recently used.
- How do I change the default home page?
  You can easily change your current home page to another layout or to another type of home page you have created.
- How do I create a new home page?
  You can create your own home page that includes information that is important to you from HCL Notes® and the Web. To create a home page, you use the home page wizard.
- How do I delete a home page I created?
  You can have more than one home page design, and you can delete any that you have created.
- How do I customize my home page?
  Once you have created a home page, you can change the content and rearrange the layout of the page at any time.
  - Refreshing home page content
    If you make changes in an application that is also displayed on a home page, you must refresh its frame on the home page to see those changes reflected on the home page.
  - Making temporary changes to a framed home page
    You can change the contents of a frame temporarily, for your current session of HCL Notes® only. The next time you open Notes, the contents of the frame return to those you selected when you set up your home page initially.
  - Making permanent changes to a framed home page
    You can change the frames you display in your home page after you have created it.
  - Editing a personal home page
    You can change the type of content for some of the fields on personal home pages.
  - Displaying Tips of the Day or New Item buttons
    On the Basics With Calendar home page, you can display Tips of the Day, which are helpful hints for using Notes®. You can also display the New Item buttons, which you can use to create new Mail memos, Calendar entries, Contacts, To Do items, or notebook entries directly from your home page.
  - Setting your notebook options from a home page
    Once you create a notebook application, you can access your notebook by clicking the Notebook button from a home page. You set your notebook from either a Basics or a Basics with Calendar home page.
  - Using the My Work home page
    You can replace the default HCL Notes® home page with another type of home page called My Work. My Work has three portal-like tabs that are divided into multiple panes that display your Mail, Calendar, To Do list, and so on.

Refreshing home page content

If you make changes in an application that is also displayed on a home page, you must refresh its frame on the home page to see those changes reflected on the home page.

About this task

Refresh the home page content using any of the following:

Click inside one frame and choose View > Refresh to update the content of that frame.
Click the Refresh arrow in a frame's switcher to update the content of that frame.
Click the Refresh icon in the Notes® toolbar to update the content in all frames.
Press SHIFT+ click the Refresh icon in the Notes® toolbar to delete the displayed view's index and rebuild it.