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by Matt Petrowsky

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Software users want to accomplish things as painlessly as possible. They want the big picture, they want it fast, and they becoming quite used to it. With companies like Google making it seem so simple to manage so much information, you can't afford to have your database look and feel like a software dinosaur.

You need to present the information from your solution in the most accessible and efficient manner possible. The most popular method of doing this is via a user Dashboard. A central location where each user of the software can call it their "home". It used to be that providing a menu of options, or the "Button Jungle" as I like to call it, was the "common thing to do" in a software solution - especially a database.

In this new world of software sophistication, presenting a user Dashboard is par for the course. The question you may have is "How can I add this to my solution as painlessly as possible?". Well, I'm always glad you ask, because it affords me the opportunity to simply show you how. Here's a video which walks through the finer points, and easy steps, to implement a fully flexible user Dashboard!