locale/en_US/manual-xml/admin.xml

   1 <chapter id="admin" revision="$Revision$">
   2         <title>The Administration Panel</title>
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   6         <section id="admin.about">
   7                 <title>About the Administration Panel</title>
   8                 <para>Once you have logged into your user account, you will see an "Administration" tab in the top navigation bar. Click this to be presented with the login screen. Here, login again for an added layer of security.</para>
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  10                 <para>In the administration panel, there are numerous options and features that can be accessed through the <link linkend="admin.menu">main menu</link>.</para>
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  12                 <para>If you would like more information about a feature, most sections have a small <strong>Help</strong> link in the upper-right corner. You can click this or the section's title to bring up the documentation page for the specific section.</para>
  13         </section>
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  17         <section id="admin.menu">
  18                 <title>The Main Menu</title>
  19                 <para>The primary page of the administration screen is the main menu:</para>
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  22                         <imageobject>
  23                                 <imagedata fileref="images/admin_index/main_menu.png" format="PNG" align="center" />
  24                         </imageobject>
  25                 </mediaobject>
  26
  27                 <para>In this menu there is a listing of all the various mutable aspects of your &product; installation. In this manual, we will explain each item in the main menu in the order that they appear.</para>
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  29                 <para>We should also note that any option available in the main menu is also in the navigation menu (the pull down bar in the upper-left corner of the window):</para>
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  31                 <mediaobject>
  32                         <imageobject>
  33                                 <imagedata fileref="images/admin_index/navigation_menu.png" format="PNG" align="center" />
  34                         </imageobject>
  35                 </mediaobject>
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  37                 <para>The <em>Administration Location</em> section of the navigation is simple: the <em>Home</em> link returns you to the main menu and the <em>Logout</em> link logs you out of the administration panel.</para>
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  39                 <note>The logout link in the administration panel will not log you out of the entire &product; system--just the administration panel. However, the opposite is true of the logout link in the non-administration interface: if you log out there, you will also be logged out of the administration panel.</note>
  40         </section>
  41 </chapter>