Start Menu

The Start Menu is your DCA SAGE Home Page. When you login to DCA SAGE you are automatically brought to your personalized Start Menu. The DCA SAGE Start Menu is divided into functional sections.

· Task Bar

· System Messages

· Initiate an Application

· Task List

· Quick Links

Task Bar

At the top of the screen, a green bar displays—

· Start Menu button, highlighted in dark green (because that’s where you are right now)

· Agency Info button

· Your agency name and your personal DCA SAGE access level (above the bar, in the upper right corner)

· Your user name (click on it to change your own user information and/or password)

The boxes in the green Task Bar are actually “buttons” that will take you to other locations within DCA SAGE or allow you to Logout. Other DCA SAGE screens will display additional buttons.

System Messages

The green box on the top left of the screen displays messages from DCA SAGE administration. To read the message(s), click System Messages. You may then save or delete the message.

Initiate an Application

(DCA SAGE calls a Grant Program an RFP – Request for Proposal.)

The Initiate an Application box (upper right) allows you to—

· Review DCA Grant Programs for your type of agency

· Select a Grant Program

· Start a new application (Apply for a new Grant)

· Review the complete list of DCA grant programs

If no grant programs are currently available for your type of agency, the Initiate an Application box will say, “There are no RFPs available to you at this time.”

Task List

The Task List is formatted in a hierarchical pattern—

· Main topics

· Sub-topics

· Hyperlinks

Your Task List is customized to your unique role in your organization and the Application and/or Grant process (as defined in DCA SAGE). If an item is on your Task List, it requires your attention. To start or continue working on one of the tasks, click its underlined hyperlink.

Quick Links

Quick Links is customized to your unique role in your organization and the DCA SAGE Application and Grant process. Use it to search for your—

· Applications

· Grants

· FSRs (Financial Status Reports)

· Agency Information Updates

· System Messages (that you have saved)

· Audit Log

· Agency Information

· Contact (user) Information

· Attachments that DCA is expecting to receive from you

Searching with Quick Links

At your Start Menu, in Quick Links—

· Click the View[whatever you want to search] hyperlink

· This will take you to a Search page

· Click Clear to remove any previously entered search criteria

(or leave the screen as is if you want to use the same criteria as the last time you searched)

· Enter criteria to narrow down your search (use the least amount of text to get results, so you don’t exclude results because of some little detail (St. vs. Street, for example.)

· Click Search

· Scroll down to see your results

· Click the magnifying glass icon for the item you want

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