iMIS Desktop has an updated appearance, which moves it closer to the look of the newest web-based environment, the Member site. Those parts of Desktop that use a .NET theme (Marketing Suite, IQA, Content Management, etc.) are now using the same theme as the Member site: Aspen.
■ For your iMIS implementers, unifying these underlying themes allows for easy theme changes across multiple views, and it opens iMIS Desktop to better iPart integration going forward.
■ For your iMIS staff, this redesign carries the new look and feel of iMIS across its views. Just as important, the redesign reduces the size of the header and navigation elements. This lets iMIS Desktop offer the maximum space for content, which reduces paging and scrolling.
Desktop Home content record
As part of this integration, iMIS Desktop has a new page for the Home tab (the page that first displays after logging in). This Home page is now a content record, which you can manage and update as easily as any other content record. Now, from a browser, you can change your Home page content on the fly to meet immediate communication needs, and your Home page can host all manner of iParts, which let you display visually engaging, social, and dynamic content to those working in your organization.
Tip: This home page includes a live connection to ASI’s Twitter feed, to demonstrate how you could add your own widgets using iParts. Using Content Manager > Manage content in a web view, you can reconfigure or remove this iPart by editing the content record for the home page: @/iMIS/Desktop Home.
