A coworker of mine recently mentioned that she had no idea you could customize your project homepage with saved searches. This is a pretty fundamental feature in the “new” Squish so I was surprised, especially considering how much we use Squish internally. If she didn’t know, there’s a good chance many customers don’t realize it, either. So here’s how to put a search on your homepage:

1. Create and run a new search.
2. Save the search by selecting “Save Search” under the Actions dropdown.
3. Now when you go to that saved search, there will be an “Add To My Home Page” link under the Actions dropdown.
4. To remove a search, you can use the “Remove From My Home Page” search action, or simply click the “remove from homepage” link on the top right corner of searches displayed on your home page.

As you may or may not have noticed, Squish was recently upgraded to version 5.1. If you want to see a full list of what’s new and what’s changed, take a look at the release notes. But I’d like to focus on a couple new things surrounding the core of this update: project management.

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