Use Cases for Adding a Home Screen Shortcut You can add a home screen shortcut extension to make your other extension solutions more visible and accessible to vSphere Web Client users. For example, home screen shortcuts are one of only two methods available to make global view extensions accessible to users. Home screen shortcut extensions can be added for almost any solution or inventory in the vSphere Web Client. Their uses are flexible and will vary for different deployments of the vSphere environment.