How can I customize My.Butler?

Once you’ve logged into My.Butler, there are a number of ways you can customize what you see.

Content and Layout

You can customize the optional pagelets you see on each tab within My.Butler, and you can control the order in which they display. You can do this in one of two ways. You can drag and drop the pagelets that appear on each tab by grabbing onto the pagelet header or you can click on the ‘Customize this page’  links in the upper left of the screen to select and order your pagelet display. Dragging and dropping your pagelets is quicker, but if you’ve removed a pagelet from your display and later decide you want to add it back, you’ll need to visit the ‘Customize this page’ links.

Drag and Drop Features
  • To move a pagelet to a different page location, hover your mouse over the desired pagelet header: you should see the cursor turn into a four-headed arrow.
    Hovering the cursor over the pagelet header to display the four-headed arrow
    Click and hold down on your mouse button, then drag the pagelet to the desired location.
  • To minimize a pagelet, click on the Minus sign icon to minimize pageletbutton that appears on the right side of the pagelet header.
  • To maximize a pagelet again, click on the Maximize icon button to display pagelet content againbutton on the right side of the pagelet header.
Using Customize This Page

Customize this page for content or layout

  1. Navigate to the tab you wish to customize.
  2. Click on the ‘Content’ link just below the tabs.
  3. The Personalize Content page appears. You can check or uncheck any named pagelet that appears here to display or hide it on this tab.
  4. Once you’re done customizing the content, look back up near the top of the page for the ‘Personalize Layout’ link.
    Arrange pagelets: go to Personalize Layout
  5. The Personalize Layout page appears. Here you can select a two or three column layout, and move your pagelets between columns, or re-order how they display.
Favorites and My Links

If you typically navigate to a few key locations within My.Butler, you may find it useful to save those items within your My.Butler favorites menu that appears at the top left of your screen, or in the my links option that appears at the top right. Once saved in these locations, you have an easy way to access your content quickly.

Favorites and main menu flyout menu locations My Links Menu

My links has two advantages over the favorites option: it allows you to reference a whole collection or folder of links, pulled directly from the My.Butler main menu, and it allows you to add links to content outside of My.Butler.

To add a My.Butler page to either the favorites or my links, navigate to the desired page normally, then click on the favorites menu or the my links dropdown, select ‘add’ and follow the onscreen prompts.

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