---
title: Your Own Tiles and Groups
description: "Add a tile for any page you can open, or build a group of your favorite pages with its own flyout menu, on your home page and every section's menu page."
url: "https://theasst.com/docs/your-own-tiles-and-groups/"
updated: "2026-10-28"
category: Getting Started
---

# Your Own Tiles and Groups

Besides the tiles TBA gives you, you can make **your own tiles**. A tile can open any page you are allowed to use, no matter which menu it is on, and a **group** is a tile with a flyout menu of the pages you choose, in the order you choose. Every tile has an icon.

![The home page with two tiles of the user's own: Reconcile, and a Month End group of three items.](https://theasst.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/tiles-home-with-custom.webp)

You can do this on your [home page](https://theasst.com/docs/home-page-and-menu-pages/) and on every section's menu page: Sales/Service, Items, Bills, Accounting/HR, Banking, Accounting, HR/Payroll, and Reports.

## Add a Tile

1. Click **Configure This Page** at the top of the page. Two buttons, **+ Add tile** and **+ New group**, appear next to *Large Tiles / Small Tiles*.
2. Click **+ Add tile**.
3. Choose the page the tile should open from the list. The list is your whole menu, as you see it in the menu bar, with every section expanded. It only contains pages you are allowed to use.
4. Optionally change the **Name** (up to 40 characters). Until you type one, the tile is named after the page you picked.
5. Optionally pick an **Icon**. **Auto** chooses one that suits the page; or click any of about 200 icons.
6. Click **Save**. The new tile appears in the first free spot. Drag it wherever you want, like any other tile.

Configure This Page, with the new buttons (step 1):

![The home page in Configure This Page mode, with the Large Tiles and Small Tiles choice and the Add tile and New group buttons above the tiles.](https://theasst.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/tiles-configure-buttons.webp)

The Add tile window (steps 2 and 3):

![The Add tile window: a Name box, a grid of icons starting with Auto, and the menu list to choose from.](https://theasst.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/tiles-add-dialog.webp)

With a page picked, the name fills in for you (step 4):

![The Add tile window with Reconcile chosen under Accounting/HR, Banking; the Name box has filled in Reconcile.](https://theasst.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/tiles-add-dialog-picked.webp)

The tile shows your icon and name, and under the name the part of the menu it lives in, for example *Accounting/HR › Banking*. If you pick a heading rather than a single page (for example *Financial Reports*), the tile shows that heading's pages in a flyout when you hover over it.

## Make a Group

A group puts the pages you use together in one tile, even if they live in different menus. A month-end group might hold *Reconcile*, *Trial Balance*, and *Profit & Loss*.

1. In Configure This Page, click **+ New group**.
2. Type a **Name** (required) and, if you like, choose an **Icon**.
3. Tick every page you want in the group (up to 30). Each one you tick is added to the **Order in the group** list underneath.
4. Put them in the order you want with the **▲** and **▼** buttons. The **×** button takes an item out of the group (unticking it in the list above does the same).
5. Click **Save**.

![The New group window with three items listed under Order in the group: Reconcile, Trial Balance, and Profit and Loss, each with up, down, and remove buttons.](https://theasst.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/tiles-group-dialog-order.webp)

Hover over the group's tile to see its flyout, with your pages in the order you set, and click one to go straight to it. The group's own description tells you how many items it holds. A group has no page of its own, so clicking the tile itself does nothing; use the flyout.

![Hovering over the Month End group tile shows a flyout listing Reconcile, Trial Balance, and Profit and Loss.](https://theasst.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/tiles-group-flyout.webp)

## Change or Delete a Tile

While you are in Configure This Page, each tile you made has a small pencil next to its **×**.

![In Configure This Page, the Reconcile and Month End tiles each show a small pencil beside the red x.](https://theasst.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/tiles-edit-pencil.webp)

- Click the **pencil** to change its name, icon, page, or (for a group) its items and their order.
- Click **Delete tile** in that window to remove it for good. You are asked to confirm.
- The **×** on a tile only *hides* it, exactly as with the built-in tiles. A hidden tile waits in the *Hidden tiles* tray, and clicking it there brings it back.

![The Change group window, with the same choices as New group plus a Delete tile button.](https://theasst.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/tiles-change-group-dialog.webp)

## Good to Know

- **You can only choose pages you can use.** If an administrator later takes away your access to a page, its tile quietly disappears; if the access comes back, so does the tile. A group simply shows the pages you can still open. See [Users and Permissions](https://theasst.com/docs/users-and-permissions/). If you have just been given access to something new, log in again or use **Reload permissions** in the [Utility Menu](https://theasst.com/docs/utility-menu/) before you look for it in the list.
- **Each page is separate.** Tiles you make on Reports appear only on Reports, and the ones on your home page only on your home page, but any page of the program can go on any of them. Here, an Account Register tile from the Banking menu sits on the Reports page:

![The Reports page with an Account Register tile of the user's own, taken from the Banking menu, beside the built-in report tiles.](https://theasst.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/tiles-reports-page.webp)

- **They belong to you.** Your own tiles are saved with your login and follow you to any computer or phone. Other people do not see them.
- **Limits:** up to 100 tiles of your own on a page, and up to 30 pages in a group.
- **Every tile has an icon.** The built-in tiles now get one that matches their page, too.
- **Large or small:** your own tiles follow the same *Large Tiles / Small Tiles* choice as the rest of the page.

See [Home Page and Menu Pages](https://theasst.com/docs/home-page-and-menu-pages/) for moving, hiding, and resizing tiles, and [The Basics](https://theasst.com/docs/the-basics/) for finding your way around TBA.