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Navigating the Main Menu

In this section, we discuss the Main Menu tools available in Studio. To access, click the Main Menu icon from the top right of the browser

Here are the list of tools available when using an out of the box blueprint. The Main Menu tools described below are available to users belonging to the system_admin group.

The configuration files for the Main Menu is located in CRAFTER_HOME/data/repos/global/configuration/ where:

• global-menu-config.xml lets you setup the list of tools available from the Main Menu sidebar

• global-permission-mappings-config.xml lets you configure the permissions to a role globally for the entire application

• global-role-mappings-config.xml lets you configure the mapping between the group and the role

The tools available in the Main Menu is configured similar to how the Site Config Sidebar is configured here using the global menu config configuration file mentioned above.

Sites

Sites contains a list of all the sites the logged in user has access to. The section Navigating Around Crafter Studio in Content Authors contains descriptions on some of the actions that can be performed from the Sites screen.

Users

A user is anybody who uses CrafterCMS. Users lets the administrator manage who has access to Crafter Studio. See Users Management for more information on Users

Users/Groups Management contains more information on managing users and groups.

Groups

A group consists of a collection of users. Groups lets the administrator manage groups, members belonging to a group, etc. For more information on groups, see Groups Management

Users/Groups Management contains more information on managing users and groups.

Cluster

Cluster lets the administrator manage Studio clusters. See Studio Clustering for more information on how to setup clustering and available actions from Cluster from the Main Menu

Audit

Audit logs displays the date, time, user and action performed to content in all the sites available as well as actions performed in Studio such as logins/logouts, user removal, group addition, etc.

See Main Menu Audit for more details on the audit logs

Logging Levels

There are 4 log levels defined in CrafterCMS. These levels determine what messages will be logged and displayed in the Logging Console. Below are the 4 log levels available from the lowest to the highest:

• debug: displays things useful for debugging

• info: displays informational messages like progress of the application, etc

• warn: displays potentially harmful situations that might cause problems

• error: displays anything that may be fatal to the operation/causes a problem

The lower your logging levels are set, the more verbose your logs will be.

For more information on logging levels, see Overriding Logging Levels

Log Console

The Log Console allows the user to view messages depending on what log levels and what Java packages have been set for tracking.

Overriding Logging Levels contains more information on how to track Java packages with the corresponding log levels desired.

The Log Console here in the Main Menu is similar to a site Log Console described here. The difference is the Log Console from the Main Menu can display logs for all the sites inside Studio, not just one site.

Global Config

The Global Config allows the user to edit the system settings for Studio without access to the physical server.

When making changes here, not all changes can/will take effect without a restart, so expect to have to restart Studio for most changes to take effect

For more information on what you can configure from the Global Config, see Main Menu Global Config

Encryption Tool

The Encryption Tool allows the user to encrypt sensitive data such as access keys and passwords, that shouldn’t be publicly available to anyone but developers and administrators

For more information on how to use the encryption tool, see Main Menu Encryption Tool.