First Steps in CuppaWEB v2 Dashboard |
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Welcome to the first of a series of tutorials designed to get you using the CuppaWEB v2 Dashboard (referred to as "Dashboard" from now on). The Dashboard is an advanced Administration/Authoring tool integrated into the CuppaWEB v2 Content Management System that allows both Administrators and Content Authors to maintain documents. Simply, the Dashboard will allow you to do your job better, faster and more conveniently. Logging on - to the Dashboard The first thing you must do before being able to work within the Dashboard is to log on to the system. (We don't want just anyone changing our documents now do we? :-) ) To do this, open up your internet browser (Only Firefox v2 and newer is supported) and type http://yourdomainname/admin into the browser's address bar. An example of this could be http://demo.cuppait.com/admin The following screenshot shows the Dashboard's login page: 
Simply enter your username and password into the respective fields and then click on Login (or you may use the Enter button on your keyboard).
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Dashboard familiarisation 101
If you are a Content Author, when the Dashboard loads after authentication (a part of logging in) you will see the following view: 
On the top left hand side, a red button is used to log your username out of the Dashboard. Below that, there is a "Documents" view which offers you options when working with Documents/Folders and a Document Viewer (lists all documents that you have at least "Read" permission for).On the top right, is a button "Close Tab", used to close any documents you have open. Below that, you have your "Work Area", where you will find tasks that are assigned to you and/or your group as well as any unassigned tasks which can be taken by users to work on. Below the "Tasks" pane you will find a pane which lists documents that you have checked out. You may be asking what does "checked out" mean? When you start editing a document, the system will lock that document so that others can not modify it until you have completed the task. That's it! You should now have enough information to load your Dashboard and log in (assuming you are a user with permission to log in). In the next tutorial we will go over creating a new document. |