Summary of the main screen panels

Parts of the ContentDirector main screen

When you log into the ContentDirector user interface, the first thing that you see is the main screen. The main screen consists of six parts.

View toolbar

contains six icons: Users, Jobs, Sources, Destinations, Policies, and Network. These icons point to views that provide status information for the various components.

Selected view

contains the view selected in the view toolbar. There are two types of views:

Tables (Users, Jobs, and Policies)
Double clicking a record within a table opens the modify dialog for that item if you have the requisite user privileges.
Trees (Sources, Destination Groups, and Network)
Trees illustrate the topology of the component in question in the left panel and status information about it in the right panel.

Main menu

enables you to create and manage all of the components of ContentDirector.

Main toolbar

enables you to create a new user, job, policy, or destination group, as well as initiate operations pertaining to a specific job.

Status window

provides information from the log files about actions occurring in ContentDirector and the user interface. You can configure the level of detail that is displayed.

Status bar

displays username, transport protocol, core application server name, and database server name.

There is some overlapping functionality between the main menu and the main toolbar. Both enable you to create new components.

An illustration of the main screen

The illustration below presents the elements of the ContentDirector main screen.