Welcome / Home Screen

The Home screen

After login you land on the Welcome / Home screen. It is intentionally sparse — the goal is to give you a calm starting point and let you pick the next action without distraction. Everything you do from here flows out of the Xn button in the top-left.

Layout

The Welcome screen is divided into four regions, anchored at the corners of the window:

• Top-left: the Xn button (your Start Menu) and the active User Type badge (Counter / Standard / Administrator etc.).
• Top-right: notifications bell, Xn-Talk inbox count, scroll-marquee toggle, and the user menu (lock, change password, logout).
• Centre: a welcome card showing the logged-in user, the active location / branch, the last login timestamp, and the licence summary (days remaining if you are inside a renewal window).
• Bottom: status bar with build version, current datacenter, and the menu number of the screen in focus. The menu number is a small but important detail — support engineers ask for it to locate the screen you are on.

What the badges mean

User Type badge (top-left, coloured)

Tells you what kind of session you started. Administrator badges are usually red, Standard are green, Counter are blue. The colour is configurable in Application Setting.

Unread Xn-Talk count (top-right, circular)

Number of unread messages in your Xn-Talk inbox. Clicking the icon jumps straight to the inbox.

Licence days remaining (centre card, only if < 30 days)

Reminder that licence renewal is due soon. Click to open Xn Licensing and pay / activate.

Datacenter name (status bar, bottom)

Which database you are connected to. Critical when you keep more than one datacenter (live + test). Always double-check this before doing destructive actions.

Quick tips

• Press the Xn button or Alt + X to open the Start Menu without using the mouse.
• The Xn-Talk inbox icon shows a badge if you have unread messages — click to jump straight in.
• The status-bar version number is the first thing support will ask for during a call.
• If the welcome card shows a licence warning, do not ignore it — once the licence lapses, billing screens may switch to read-only.
• Use Lock (in the user menu) instead of Logout if you are stepping away for under 15 minutes — locking keeps your open sub-windows intact.