Navigating the Admin UI

You can navigate the Admin UI pages with the left panel toolbar, menu bar, consoles, and the navigation map. The pages that you use depend on your role.

  1. In your web browser, type the URL provided by your administrator. The user interface login screen opens. If the page fails to open, contact your administrator.
  2. Type the details for the username, password, and company fields, and click Login.
    Note: If the administrator has set a default company name, the company name is automatically populated.
  3. Optional: Type your username and password for Global Data Synchronization.
Important: If you change the password by using the Admin UI, log out of the current Persona-based UI session, and then login by using the new password.

The home page has a left panel, the collaboration console, and the menu bar containing modules.

Modules (Menu)

The menu bar is at the upper area of the Admin UI application. Provides tabs that allow you to navigate between various tasks, such as managing items and manage messages.
Menus Menu description
Home Access tasks that are related to your home page, task lists, settings, and profile.
Product Manager Access tasks that are related to catalogs, hierarchies, selections, reports, lookup tables for data entry and data maintenance.

Manages content from multiple sources and audiences and provide customer-focused content. This module is designed for users who manage product information everyday such as content managers, product managers, and pricing specialists.
Collaboration Manager Access tasks related to import, exports, collaboration areas, queues, web services, document store, routing, and generated files for setting up the data module and business rules for content managers.

Import into and export information from Product Master and view the list of files that are stored in the document store, create workflows, and manage workflows. This module is designed for business process analysts who set up the data module and business rules for content managers.
Design manager Access tasks that are related to scheduler, specs and mappings, attribute collections, scripting, security, alerts, staging areas, and workflows.

Manage scheduled activities, alerts, external communication, create, and edit specifications and mappings, administer users, roles, privileges, view, and create scripts. This module is designed for business process analysts who set up the data module and business rules for content managers.
System Administrator Access tasks that are related to audit, database administration, performance information, properties, log files, system status, profiler, import environment, selective export, selective import, and size distribution.

Use the functional tools that are available to troubleshoot and maintain the application. You can review configuration settings, application performance measurements, view various log files, and system status information. This module is designed for system administrators who are responsible for the operation of Product Master application and related services.
Custom Tools Access tasks that are related to custom tools.
Window Access tasks related to enabling left panel or using the navigation map to connect to consoles.

The navigation map displays the same structure as the menu bar, but shows more detail. The structure of the navigation map is a detailed list of components that mirror the same top-level menu items of the menu bar. From the navigation map, you can select and connect to any component.

Collaboration Area Console

The Collaboration Area Console consists of the left panel access bar and the collaboration area on the right page. The console lists the collaboration areas and the number of items that are associated with each area. Click to apply filters to the list. Click to open the properties section. In the Properties section,
  • You can hide empty steps, inaccessible steps, or empty collaboration areas. You can choose the columns that you want to display in the list, and specify number of rows per page.

Click to refresh the information.

Modules (Left panel)

Located in the left panel, displays the quick links and quick search. You can customize and develop your own left panel module.
Add a module as follows.
  1. In left panel, click Module > Please select a module to add.
  2. In the Please select a module to add list, select the module, and click .

    Click to refresh the table information. Click to use the On-Demand Filter, or to use the On-Demand Search.

    You can add the following modules to the left panel.
Alerts Identifies the status of any current alert. The alerts table presents the status and number of alerts that are active. The types of alerts include: error alerts, information alerts, and actionable alerts.
Bookmarks Links to a location that you define, including searches. You can select this object for components that are most commonly used. You can add different areas of Admin UI as bookmarks that appear in the bookmarks list.
Custom Tools Displays a list of custom tools that are available to you.
Documents The document store shows Admin UI documents, including hyperlinks to the file location.
Jobs If you have more than one job running at a time, it is difficult to check the status of all the jobs from a single screen. Therefore, management and monitoring of jobs is critical. This job explorer module reduces the time and provides ease in managing and monitoring the status of all of your running jobs. A progress bar for each running job displays in the left panel navigation. You can filter the jobs based on the type of job.
Important: This feature is no longer supported.
Last Visited Stores the last 10 pages that were visited. When a page is visited, it is automatically added to the Last Visited section. The list is cleared when you log out of Admin UI. You can click the page name to display the page.
Selections Displays all of the statically saved catalog selections. When a catalog item selection is created, it appears in the Item Selection Console and is automatically added to the Selections section in the left panel.
Spec Explorer Displays the search results of specifications and attributes. You can search and view all specs that are available to you.

From the Spec Explorer, you can click Search and search for a spec by specifying a search criteria. From the results list, click a spec name to add it to the Spec Explorer section.
Catalogs

Displays all the catalogs that are available to you. A catalog module allows you to browse and search a given catalog and perform various operations on it.
Collaboration Areas

Displays all the collaboration areas that are available to you and includes the collaboration area hierarchy. You can expand the collaboration area section to see a list of steps that are contained by the workflow of the collaboration area. You can also expand the steps to see the items in each step.

Right-click to perform these tasks.
  • View Workflows Definitions - Opens the View Workflow Details page.
  • Hide inaccessible steps - Display only the steps on which you can perform an action.
Hierarchies

Displays all the hierarchies that are available to you. A hierarchy module allows you to browse and search a given hierarchy as well as perform various operations on it.

Right-click to perform these tasks.
  • List View - Toggle the view.
  • Category Rich Search - Opens the Search for Categories - New Category Search page.
  • Hierarchy Attributes - Opens the hierarchy details.
Organizations

Displays all the organizations that are available to you. An organization module allows you to browse and search a given organization as well as perform various operations on it.

Right-click to perform these tasks.
  • List View - Toggle the view.
  • Organization Rich Search - Opens the Search for Categories - New Category Search page.
  • Hierarchy Attributes - Opens the hierarchy details.

Customizing the left panel modules

You need to edit the configuration file before you define your module.
  1. Edit the $TOP/etc/default/user_leftpanel.conf.xml extension point.
    This file defines the custom modules. You must specify the name of the custom modules. For those modules that allow multiple instances, you must also specify the fully qualified class path of your implementation of LeftpanelDataObjectFactory.
  2. Edit the $TOP/public_html/user/user_jsp_include.jsp extension point.
    This file is the JavaScript interface for i18n labels for the custom modules. You must edit this file to provide the appropriate i18n labels for your custom modules.
  3. Optional: You can edit the $TOP/public_html/user/userjs/module/<custom module name>.jsp file. This file is the JavaScript part of custom module implementation. You can edit this file to include your JavaScript files.