---
title: "The Home screen"
description: "Find, filter and open the certificates on your tablet, and create new ones, from the Shine Forms tablet app's Home screen."
source: "tablet"
---

:::info{title="Coming soon"}
The Shine Forms tablet apps will be available soon. Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/shine-forms), watch [our blog](https://www.shineforms.co.uk/blog), or [sign up to our newsletter](https://www.shineforms.co.uk/newsletter) for updates.
:::

# The Home screen

After you sign in, the app opens on the Home screen. It lists every form on the tablet and is where you create new ones.

![The Home screen listing the certificates on the tablet](https://www.shineforms.co.uk/docs/_img/spectrum-tablet-home.png)

The screen has three parts:

1. **The rail** on the left chooses what the list shows.
2. **The list** in the middle has one row per certificate, showing the type of form, the client and address, its status, the certificate number and when it was last worked on.
3. **New form** at the top right creates a new certificate.

Tap a row to open that certificate. The **⋮** button at the end of a row lets you **Upload** the certificate or **Move to recycle bin**.

## Choosing what to see

The top of the rail has three views of your work:

- **Recent work** shows everything, most recently edited first.
- **Jobs and sites** groups certificates by client and site, so you can see all the work at one address together.
- **All forms** lists everything.

![The Home screen grouped by job and site](https://www.shineforms.co.uk/docs/_img/spectrum-tablet-home-jobs-and-sites.png)

Under **Form types** the rail lists each discipline with the number of forms of each type on the tablet. Tap a discipline to expand it and tap a form type, such as **EICR**, to see only that type. The app launches with the electrical certificates; the other disciplines are coming soon. In a form-type view the list shows the client and address of each certificate, and a **Revision** row lets you narrow the list to one edition of the standard.

![The list narrowed to EICRs, with the revision and status filters](https://www.shineforms.co.uk/docs/_img/spectrum-tablet-home-eicr-type.png)

Above the list, the **Status** chips narrow it to **Draft**, **In progress**, **Completed** or **Submitted** certificates:

- **Draft** — nothing entered yet.
- **In progress** — the client or occupier has been entered.
- **Completed** — the date of completion has been entered.
- **Submitted** — the certificate has been uploaded to your Shine Forms account.

The search box finds certificates by client, address or certificate number.

At the bottom of the rail, **Recycle bin** shows certificates you have deleted, from where they can be restored or permanently deleted. See [Settings and support](https://www.shineforms.co.uk/docs/tablet-app-settings-and-support#recycle-bin).

## Creating a certificate

Tap **New form**. The picker lists the disciplines Shine Forms covers and the form types within each.

![The New form picker with the electrical form types shown](https://www.shineforms.co.uk/docs/_img/spectrum-tablet-home-new-form-picker.png)

Choose a discipline on the left, then tap the form you want. The **EICR** tile is the Electrical Installation Condition Report to BS 7671:2018+A4:2026.

![The New form picker with the EICR tile selected and the Create button enabled](https://www.shineforms.co.uk/docs/_img/spectrum-tablet-home-new-form-picker-eicr.png)

:::note{title="Coming soon"}
Fire alarm, emergency lighting, solar PV and EV charging forms are coming soon. Choosing one of those, or a form type marked **Not built yet**, shows a page explaining that it is on its way rather than creating a certificate.
:::

Tap **Create**. You are then asked for the details the app needs to set the certificate up:

![The Create New Certificate dialog](https://www.shineforms.co.uk/docs/_img/spectrum-tablet-create-certificate.png)

- **Certificate Number** — a number is suggested for you, and you can change it.
- **Boards**, **Phase** and **Ways** — how many distribution boards to create, the phase of the boards, and how many ways each has. You can add boards and circuits later, so a best guess is fine.
- **Inspection schedule** — which schedule of inspections the certificate uses. The standard BS 7671 schedule is selected by default; the other choices come from the [Schedule Library](https://www.shineforms.co.uk/docs/tablet-app-settings-and-support#schedule-library).

Tap **Create Certificate** and the new certificate opens ready for you to start entering details.

:::tip
When you are already looking at one form type, the button at the top right is labelled with that type — for example **New EICR** — and starts a new certificate of that type straight away. The arrow beside it opens the picker if you want a different type.
:::

## Dark theme

The app has a dark theme that is easier on the eyes in low light. Turn it on under **File → Options → General → Dark theme**.

![The Home screen in the dark theme](https://www.shineforms.co.uk/docs/_img/spectrum-tablet-home-dark.png)