IRMI Online Dashboards

The IRMI Online Dashboards are navigation tools to help specific types of risk and insurance professionals more quickly find the information they need in the IRMI library. They include links to many different IRMI publications and will be most useful to subscribers to multiple titles, particularly subscribers to the Professional Library.

If you subscribe to only one or two IRMI publications, the dashboards will probably not be very helpful. In this case, the best approaches to finding information in them is to (1) search only the titles to which you subscribe using Advanced Search or (2) use their tables of contents and topical indexes.

In most cases the dashboard most closely associated with your principal job function will work best for you. Thus, a commercial property or liability underwriter would choose the commercial underwriter dashboard, a risk manager would choose the risk management dashboard, a personal lines agent or adjuster would choose the personal lines dashboard, etc. However, if you are trying to find information that would typically be more applicable to some other type of risk professional, you might find it useful to peruse the dashboard for that type of professional. For example, a risk manager trying to determine how to deal with a liability claim or a broker trying to help a client deal with one will likely find it helpful to review the commercial claims dashboard. Likewise, an agent or broker trying to provide risk management advice to a client might benefit from the risk management dashboard.

Of course, the topical indexes dashboard is different. It simply provides a link to the topical index in each publication in IRMI Online as well as to certain other navigation tools.

Once you find a dashboard that works well for you, consider making it your home page for your browser or adding it to your favorites by using the IRMI Online "Bookmark" button. Remember that it is best not to log out of IRMI Online when you are finished using it. If you just close the page without logging out, you won't have to log in the next time you use it.

In most cases, when you navigate to a page in IRMI Online from a dashboard link, the table of contents on the left hand side of your screen will automatically adjust to show you what publication you are in and where you are in that publication, by highlighting the appropriate entry. However, there are a few exceptions, relating to certain types of files. If the table of contents does not automatically highlight the appropriate entry to show your location within IRMI Online, click "Sync" in the tool bar at the top of the document window. This will cause the table of contents to expand as necessary and place a highlight on the table of contents entry corresponding with your current location.