New Navigation Menu

As you will have no doubt noticed if you’ve logged into your Marcato Musician account recently, we have launched a new navigation menu. If you haven’t seen it yet, you can now find it by clicking on the Marcato symbol at the top left of the page next to your organization name, or by using the keyboard shortcut Alt+N. We understand that a transition like this takes some time to get used to, but we’d like to take a moment to explain why we feel this new menu is a more powerful alternative to our old one.

For starters, you can do more with it. And you can do it faster. Looking for a particular booking? Just search for it in the menu. Want to send a message to the rest of your team? Click the “Add Message” link that’s right there at the top of the Messages submenu. If you’re an account admin, you can reach the Account Settings screen from anywhere just by clicking the link in the menu (instead of having to find it buried behind the Admin page). The new menu makes it easier to find what you’re looking for, and faster to get there.

It’s also more flexible. Previously, if we wanted to add a new feature or module to the software, we would have to think up a sensible way to reorganize the navigation links that used to span across the top of the page. If there wasn’t a sensible way to group it with something else, it simply got tacked on the end — which meant we were quickly running out of real estate at the top of the screen. Now we have more room to expand without getting disorganized — and the whole thing sits nicely hidden out of your way when you’re not using it.

The next time you’re using your Marcato Account, open up the navigation menu by clicking the icon at the top left of the page, and have a look around to familiarize yourself with what’s there. You’ll find all of the old Help links on the right-hand pane of the navigation menu, so if you have any questions or suggestions about these changes, you can follow the Support Board link there. You can also leave your feedback here on our blog.

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