Navigate to your items from Microsoft Fabric Home

This article gives a high level view of navigating to your items and actions from Microsoft Fabric Home. Each product experience has its own Home, and there are similarities that they all share. Those similarities are described in this article. For detailed information about Home for a particular product experience, such as Data Factory Home, visit the relevant page for that product experience.

Overview of Home

On Home, you see items that you create and that you have permission to use. These items are from all the workspaces that you access. That means that the items available on everyone's Home are different. At first, you might not have much content, but that changes as you start to create and share Microsoft Fabric items.

In Microsoft Fabric, the term item refers to: apps, lakehouses, warehouses, reports, and more. Your items are accessible and viewable in Microsoft Fabric, and often the best place to start working in Microsoft Fabric is from Home. However, once you've created at least one new workspace, been granted access to a workspace, or you've added an item to My workspace, you might find it more convenient to navigate directly to a workspace. One way to navigate to a workspace is by using the nav pane and workspace selector.

To open Home, select it from the top of your left navigation pane.

Most important content at your fingertips

The items that you can access appear on Home. If your Home canvas gets crowded, use global search to find what you need, quickly. The layout and content on Home is different for every user and every product experience, but there are numerous similarities as well. These similarities are listed here and discussed in more detail later in this article.

1. The left navigation pane (nav pane) for your product experience links you to different views of your items and to creator resources. You can remove icons from the left nav to suit your workflow.
2. The selector for switching product experiences.
3. The top menu bar for orienting yourself in Microsoft Fabric, finding items, help, and sending Microsoft feedback. The Account manager control is a critical icon for looking up your account information and managing your Fabric trial.
4. Options for creating new items.
5. Links to recommended content. This content helps you get started using the product experience and links to items and workspaces that you visit often.
6. Your items organized by recent, favorites, and items shared with you by your colleagues. The items that appear here are the same across product experiences, except for the Power BI experience.

Locate items from Home

Microsoft Fabric offers many ways of locating and viewing your content. All approaches access the same pool of content in different ways. Searching is sometimes the easiest and quickest way to find something. While other times, using the nav pane to open a workspace or selecting a card on the Home canvas is your best option.

Use the navigation pane

Along the left side is a narrow vertical bar, referred to as the nav pane. This example uses the Data factory nav pane. Notice that My workspace is the active workspace. The options in your nav pane depend on the product experience you've selected. The nav pane organizes actions you can take with your items in ways that help you get to where you want to be quickly. Occasionally, using the nav pane is the quickest way to get to your items.

In the bottom section of the nav pane is where you find and open your workspaces. Use the workspace selector to view a list of your workspaces and select one to open. Below the workspace selector is the name of the currently open workspace.
- By default, you see the Workspaces selector and My workspace.
- When you open a workspace, its name replaces My workspace.
- Whenever you create a new item, it's added to the open workspace.

The nav pane is there when you open Home and remains there as you open other areas of Microsoft Fabric. Every Microsoft Fabric product experience nav pane includes Home, Browse, OneLake data hub, Create, and Workspaces.

Remove icons from the nav pane

You can delete icons from the nav pane for products you don't think you need. You can always add them back later.

To remove an icon, right-click the icon and select Unpin.

Add icons back to the nav pane

You can add an icon back if you decide you need it.

Select More ..., then select the icon you want to return to the left nav.

Find and open workspaces

Workspaces are places to collaborate with colleagues to create collections of items such as lakehouses, warehouses, and reports.

There are different ways to find and open your workspaces. If you know the name or owner, you can search. Or you can select the Workspaces icon in the nav pane and choose which workspace to open.

The workspace opens on your canvas, and the name of the workspace is listed on your nav pane. When you open a workspace, you can view its content. It includes items such as notebooks, pipelines, reports, and lakehouses.

For more information, see Workspaces.

Find and open other product experiences

In the bottom left corner is your experience selector. Click the icon to see all of the available Microsoft Fabric product experiences. Select an experience to open it and make it active.

Find your content using search, sort, and filter

To learn about the many ways to search from Microsoft Fabric, see Searching and sorting. Global searching is available by item, name, keyword, workspace, and more.

Find answers in the context sensitive Help pane

Select the Help icon (?) to open and use the contextual Help pane and to search for answers to questions.

Microsoft Fabric provides context sensitive help in the right rail of your browser. In this example, we've selected Browse from the nav pane and the Help pane automatically updates to show us articles about the features of the Browse screen. For example, we're shown articles on View recent content and See content that others have shared with you. If there are community posts related to the current view, they're displayed under Forum topics.

Leave the Help pane open as you work, and use the suggested topics to learn how to use Microsoft Fabric features and terminology. Or, select the X to close the Help pane and save screen space.

The Help pane is also a great place to search for answers to your questions. Type your question or keywords in the Search field.

To return to the default Help pane, select the left arrow.

For more information about searching, see Searching and sorting.

For more information about the Help pane, see Get in-product help.

Find help and support

If the self-help answers don't resolve your issue, scroll to the bottom of the Help pane for more resources. Use the links to ask the community for help or to connect with Microsoft Fabric Support. For more information about contacting Support, see Support options.

Find your account and license information

Information about your account and license is available from the Account manager. Select the tiny photo from the upper-right corner of Microsoft Fabric to open your Account manager.

For more information about licenses and trials, see Licenses.

Find notifications, settings, and feedback

In the upper-right corner of Home are several helpful icons. Take time to explore your Notifications center, Settings, and Feedback options. The ? icon displays your Help and search options and the Account manager icon displays information about your account and license. Both of these features are described in detail earlier in this article.

Find what you need on your Home canvas

The final section of Home is the center area, called the canvas. The content of your canvas updates as you select different items. By default, the Home canvas displays options for creating new items, recommended items, recents, favorites, and content that has been shared with you. If you've selected the Show less view, the New section of the canvas is collapsed.

When you create a new item, it's saved in your My workspace unless you've selected a workspace from Workspaces. To learn more about creating items in workspaces, see create workspaces.

The Recommended area might include getting started content as well as items and workspaces that you use frequently.

Related content

• Power BI Home
• Start a Fabric trial