The Dashboard tab

The Dashboard is your own start page in the administration and the first page after signing in. It shows what is waiting for you, what happened on the site lately, and leads to your drafts, pending items, bookmarks and settings. Every user who may sign in to the administration has it; what it shows depends on the role.

The dashboard from the top

1. A greeting and quick actions: buttons to the places you need most, such as Content structure, Media library, Upload files and Help center.
2. Numbers: the content items, the items published in the last seven days, My drafts, My pending items, and for administrators more, such as the users and who is signed in now. Click a number to open its list.
3. Publishing, last 14 days: a small chart; Show the numbers shows it as a table.
4. Short lists such as My pending items, My drafts, All latest content and My latest content, which lead to the items.

Administrators also see blocks about the system: the version that runs, how to keep it up to date, security events and more. Moderators see a Recent content block with the items held for review.

The left column: your own pages

Further links, such as Change password and Edit profile, are under More. Below them, Site structure shows the top of the tree.

My drafts

A draft is a version you started and did not publish: of a new item, or of an existing one, which stays as it is until you publish. My drafts lists all of yours; nobody else sees them.

• Press Edit next to a draft to continue it, then Send for publishing.
• To throw drafts away, tick them and press Remove selected. A removed draft cannot be restored, and the draft of an item that was never published takes that new item with it.
• When you have many drafts, a search field and filters (class, language, location, age) help you find one.

My pending items

When the site uses an approval, a version you send for publishing waits until an approver accepts it. My pending items lists those versions. Accepted, the version is published and leaves the list; rejected, it returns to My drafts. You cannot edit a version while it waits. On a site without an approval the list stays empty, because your versions are published at once.

What can go wrong

• The dashboard is missing. Your role does not include it; the administration opens on the content instead.
• A draft you expect is not listed. It was published, removed, or belongs to another user.
• An item stays pending for days. Ask the approver first, then an administrator.

Read more

• How do I find and finish my drafts?
• Where do I see my items that wait for approval?
• Recent content
• A tour of the administration