DFS Hero has one top bar and one home screen, the Day View, where every slate of the day sits in a table row or, in the card view and on a phone, on a card. Each slate you open becomes a tab in the top bar that holds its workspace. Everything else opens from the right side of the top bar or from the command palette.
Before you start
- Sign in to DFS Hero. See Create your account.
- Know what the pieces are. See What DFS Hero does.
The top bar, left to right
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| DFS HERO logo | Opens the Day View for the selected date. |
| Date button | Opens a calendar. Only dates with slates are selectable, and a dot marks a date with contest results. |
| Today | Appears while another date is selected. Returns the date to today. |
| Grid button | Opens the Day View without closing your tabs. |
| Slate tabs | One tab per open slate. |
| + | Opens an empty tab with the slate picker. Disabled while an empty tab already exists. |
| Bell | Opens the Notifications panel. See Notifications. |
| Hero Chat button | Opens Hero Chat. Power plan only; on Essential the button is absent. See Meet Hero Chat. |
| Help button | Opens the Help & Updates panel with the tabs Help, Academy, News, and Messages. The Help tab holds this Help Center, so you can read an article beside your slate. See Contact support. |
| Avatar | Opens the avatar drawer. |
Closing a slate tab is safe. Your settings, lineups, and entries for that slate stay saved, and the tab comes back when you open the slate again. See Open and manage slate tabs.
On the Dashboard, Playbooks, Film Room, and Settings pages, the slate tabs give way to a Workspace link, which returns you to the slate tab and build you used last, and the four page links.
The avatar drawer
Click your avatar at the right end of the top bar.
| Item | What it does |
|---|---|
| Dashboard | Opens the Dashboard. See The Dashboard. |
| Playbooks | Opens the Playbooks library. On Essential this page shows the upgrade view. See What is a playbook. |
| Film Room | Opens Film Room, your contest results. See Film Room. |
| Settings | Opens Settings on the Profile tab. See Profile and appearance. |
| Auto Refresh | Keeps the workspace data refreshing on its own. |
| Theme | Click to pick another theme. See Profile and appearance. |
| Help Center | Opens the Help tab of the Help & Updates panel. |
| Keyboard shortcuts | Shows every keyboard shortcut. On a computer only. |
| Discord | Opens the DFS Hero Discord, where announcements, known issues, and fixes post first. |
| Sign out | Ends your session on this device. |
On a phone the drawer also holds a Help & Updates row, because the help button is hidden from the phone top bar.
The command palette
The command palette is the fastest way to move around.
- Press Cmd+K on a Mac or Ctrl+K on Windows. The shortcut works from anywhere in the app, also while your cursor sits in a text field.
- Type part of a name. Every word you type must appear in the row's name or its related words, so "map" finds Open Slate Map and "patch" finds Open Swap.
- Press Enter on the highlighted row, or click it.
- Press Escape or the shortcut again to close it.
With nothing typed, the palette shows what you are working on first: the rows you picked recently, your open slates, the builds of the active slate, and the workspace actions. Pages come last.
| Group | Rows | When it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Recent | Up to 3 pages or playbooks you picked recently. | Before you type |
| Open slates | One row per open slate tab, with the site, the sport, the game count, and the time to lock. The slate that locks first is at the top. | While you have slate tabs open |
| Builds | One row per build of the active slate, with its state: Building, Error, Not built, or the lineup count. | While the active slate has 2 or more builds |
| Workspace | Open Slate Map, Open Swap, View entries, Manage builds, Pin this build or Unpin this build | While a slate workspace is open. Open Swap and View entries need uploaded entries. Open Slate Map needs a sport with a map. |
| Actions | Open build settings, Open Hero Chat, Hero Academy, Keyboard shortcuts, Switch theme › | Open build settings needs an open slate tab. Away from that slate, the row names it and opens it first. It never starts a build by itself. Open Hero Chat needs the Power plan. |
| Slates | Every slate of the selected date that is not open yet. Pick one to open it as a tab. | After you type |
| Playbooks | Your playbooks. In a slate, only the playbooks for that slate's sport, site, and contest type. On the Day View, only the playbooks for the day's slates. Pick one to open it in the editor. | After you type. Power plan. |
| Players | Up to 8 players from the slate on screen, with position, matchup, salary, and projection. Pick one to open the player card. | After you type 2 or more letters in a slate workspace |
| Navigate | Dashboard, Playbooks, Film Room, Settings, Day View, and one row per Settings tab | Always |
A row with a key on its right side also has a keyboard shortcut. See the next section.
Switch theme › opens a list of presets plus System. Choosing one applies it at once. Press Backspace in the empty search box to go back.
Keyboard shortcuts
Press Cmd+/ on a Mac or Ctrl+/ on Windows to see every shortcut. You can also press ?, pick Keyboard shortcuts in the command palette, or click Keyboard shortcuts in the avatar drawer.
Single-letter shortcuts do nothing while your cursor sits in a text field or in the Player Pool table. Click on empty space first.
| Keys | What they do |
|---|---|
| Cmd+K / Ctrl+K | Open or close the command palette. |
| Cmd+/ / Ctrl+/, or ? | Show the keyboard shortcuts. |
| *Cmd+* / *Ctrl+* | Open or close Hero Chat. Power plan. |
| G then D, F, P, or S | Go to the Day View, Film Room, Playbooks, or Settings. |
| B in a slate | Open Build Settings. It never starts a build. |
| [ and ] in a slate | Go to the previous or next slate tab. |
| Shift+[ and Shift+] in a slate | Go to the previous or next build. |
| M in a slate | Open the Slate Map. |
| E in a slate | Open the entries view. Needs uploaded entries. |
| Option+1, 2, 3 / Alt+1, 2, 3 in a slate | Show or hide the Contests, Players, or Lineups panel. Hold Option or Alt to see each closed panel's key at the bottom. These keys do nothing while your cursor sits in a text field. |
| Cmd+S / Ctrl+S in the playbook editor | Save the playbook. |
| Escape | Close the command palette, a sheet, a popover, or Hero Chat. |
| Enter in Hero Chat | Send the message. Shift+Enter adds a line. |
| Enter / Escape while renaming a build tab | Save the new name, or keep the old one. Double-click a built tab to rename it. |
The slate shortcuts work on a computer only, and they do nothing while a sheet or a dialog is open. Chrome on Linux keeps Alt+1 to Alt+8 for its own tabs, so the panel keys do not work there.
The phone layout
On a narrow screen DFS Hero uses the phone layout.
- The top bar holds the logo, a slate chip, the bell, the Hero Chat button, and your avatar. Tap the chip to switch slates.
- The help button and the page links live in the avatar drawer. Tap Help & Updates there for the help panel.
- The Day View shows one slate card per row. The filter row and the stats bar wrap onto several lines, so every control stays in view.
- In the workspace the Player Pool fills the screen as cards, and a bottom bar holds Lineups, the playbook button, and Build or Rebuild. Lineups opens the lineups panel as a sheet.
- A Tools button opens the Tools sheet with rows such as Upload Entries, Swap, Hero Insights, and, after a build, Exposure Caps.
Builds and simulations work on a phone, and every build you run there also appears on your desktop. See Browser and device support.
Tips
- Keep one tab per slate you play and use the tab strip to jump between them.
- Learn Cmd+K. Open build settings in the palette opens Build Settings on your active slate from anywhere in the app.
- Press [ and ] to move between slates, and Option+1, 2, 3 to show or hide the panels.
- Group the Day View By Sport and use Open All to open every slate of a sport as tabs in one click.
Troubleshooting
"Select a slate in the current tab first" : the + button is disabled because an empty New Slate tab already exists. Pick a slate in that tab or close it.
"No slates today" : today has no slates. Pick another date from the calendar.
Cmd+K does nothing : you are outside the app, for example in the help center. Open the app and try again.
A single-letter shortcut does nothing : your cursor is in a text field or in the Player Pool table, or a sheet is open. Click on empty space in the app and try again.
The Hero Chat button is missing : Hero Chat needs the Power plan. See Plans: Essential and Power.
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