The Control Panel 

Menubar:

The Menubar is divided into eleven sections: Home, Site, Menu, Content, Components, Modules, Mambots, Installers, Messages, System, and Help.  Each section has an associated drop down menu. The menu bar is your navigation centre within the control panel.

1. the name of your Web site

2. your current location within the control panel shown as a click-able pathway

3. the name of the User logged in, i.e.'Logged in as Admin'

4. the number of outstanding messages that you have from other Administrators, using the messaging function in My Admin

5. the number of Users currently online

Quick Link Icons:

The left side of the Control Panel presents icons for the primary content management items

All icons and text lines on the Control Panel are clickable and will bring the selected item's controls into the Workspace.

The Icons displayed in a standard installation 

Toolbar Icons:

Publish: This icon is to publish your Category or items. The visitors of your web can view these items on your web site.

Unpublish: This icon is to unpublish a Category or item. Unpublishing removes the item from public view, but does not delete the Category or item. To delete an item, select it and click the 'Delete' icon.

Archive: This icon moves an item to the Archive.

New:  This icon adds a new item, section, link, etc.

Edit: This icon edits a previously created item. Be sure to select an item before clicking this icon.

Delete or Remove:  This icon deletes a Category or item from your Web site. Note that this process is not reversible. To remove an item or Category temporarily, click the "Unpublish" icon.

Trash: This icon removes an item and places it in the Trash Manager.

NOTE:You can restore trashed items to their previous states. Simply go to the Trash Manager under the Site menu.

Move: This icon moves an item to a new Section or Category.

Apply: This icon is to save your new content or changes with the page remaining open to continue editing

Save: This icon is to save your new content or configuration changes and be returned to the previous page.

Cancel: This icon is to cancel page creation or to cancel any unsaved modifications.

NOTE: If you want to cancel creation or editing you must use this button and not the back button on your browser as this will lock the item and other content manager will be unable to modify the page.

Preview:  This icon is used to show, in a pop-up window, a preview of any changes you have made. If your web browser is set up to block pop-up windows or you are using pop-up blocking software, you
will need to change that setting or disable that software in order to see the preview.

Upload: This icon is to upload a file or image to your Web site.

NOTE: If you want to cancel creation or editing, you must use this button and not the back button on your browser in order to prevent locking - "Checking Out" - your page and preventing others from modifying it. When using 3rd-Party Components alternative behaviours may be assigned to some of these icons.

Tabbed Module

On the right side of the main field of the Control Panel a tabbed module for access to:

• a list of the currently Logged in Users
• a list of the installed Components,
• a list of Popular content items,
• information about the Latest Items added to the system, and
• Menu Statistics.

Logged Users Tab 

Installed Components Tab

Popular Content Items Tab

Latest Item Tab

Menu Stats Tab 

Workspace:

The Workspace is the area immediately below the Menubar that shows the menu item display and Toolbar controls for the menu item currently selected.  The workspace updates when you make a menu selection or use a tool from the toolbar.

The default setting is to the Control Panel. This can always be reached by clicking the Home button in the menu bar provided you are not actively editing any Section, Category, Content Item, etc,. at the time.

NOTE: Please submit your suggestions for editing/proof-reading here on the Submissions, Modifications, and Corrections forum.   

Thank You

The Documentation Team