Portal interface structure

The interface of a portal contains the following elements in order to navigate on the portal:

  • The upper bar;
  • The navigation pane.

The upper bar is the bar at the top of the portal.

Left side

On the left side, the upper bar contains the following elements:

Portal icon and name

The icon and the name of the current portal are displayed on the far left of the upper bar.

Click on the icon or name of the portal to open the homepage of the portal.
Name of the current screen

The name of the current screen is displayed next to the portal name.

When an object is opened from a search:

  • You can click on the name of the screen to return to the search screen with the results displayed. If the search is a saved search, the name of that saved search is displayed instead.
  • You can click on the and arrows to browse through the objects listed in the search results. If only one object matches the criteria specified for the search, the arrows are then not available.

Right side

On the right side, the upper bar contains the following elements:

Allows you to open the release notes of the latest version of Akuiteo.

Two choices can be made:

  • Portal news to display in a context window the release notes of the current version and related to the portal only.
  • All news to open the online help in a new tab and display all release notes of the current version.
Allows you to open the online help of the portal in a new tab.

Allows you to open the launcher pop-up. It contains shortcuts to other Akuiteo portals and potentially to custom external links.

Click on the desired shortcut to quickly access the relevant portal.

Reference

For more information about the Launcher, refer to Introduction to the Launcher.
User picture

It is used to:

  • change the language of the portal by clicking on the chosen language in the list.
  • choose between the Dark or Light theme.
  • set up the portal Preferences. They are various parameters specific to the portal and are only applied to the user logged in.
  • to access information About Akuiteo, most notably version and copyright information.
  • to log out of the portal with the Logout button.

Note

On the Help Desk Portal, other elements are available on the upper bar.

For more information, see Searching for an issue with its number and Creating an issue.

The navigation pane is located on the left side of the portal.

It displays menus and sub-menus available on the portal. Click on the desired menu entry to access the corresponding screen in the portal.

By default, the navigation pane is unfolded and therefore displays the name and icon of each menu. In order to take less space, the pane can be folded by clicking on at the bottom of the pane. Names of menus are then hidden and only icons are displayed. Click on to unfold the pane again.

Note

On Administration console and the , the navigation pane is displayed differently from other portals. As such, the pane cannot be folded or unfolded.