User Interface Overview
The central interface is the dashboard. From the dashboard, all dytab collections can be accessed easily and quickly. The most important collections are categorized into "Portfolio", "Registrations & Audits", "Document Management", "Workflows" and "Collections".
- Home: The button is located in the side menu. Clicking on the button will display the dashboard.
- Portfolio: In the portfolio the common collections of the eTD are displayed and are directly accessible by one click.
- Registrations & Audits: Here you can find all collections for Registrations & Audits.
- Document Management: Document management contains the most common collections for handling documents and document folders.
- Workflows: This area displays current workflow processes to which the user has contributed or can contribute.
- Collections: In this area there are additional collections that can be reached directly. In addition, you can navigate to the complete collection overview by clicking on "Show more". The complete collection overview can also be reached via the "Collections" side menu.
- Unresolved comments show all comments that users have left. They are directly clickable and meddevo navigates directly to the place where the comment was left.
![](https://dytab.github.io/user-manual/user-interface-overview/home-page-en.png)
The main areas of the Interface
The interface consists of three main areas. The following example shows the collection "Products".
- Main Navigation: Quick navigation to Dashboard (Home), Collection Overview, Workflow Processes and the Administration Area (administration rights needed).
- Overview page: Contains the entries of the respective Collection, e.g. the created products. The entries can be filtered according to different criteria. Columns can be shown and sorted individually.
- Entry overlay: Here the user defines the concrete contents of the entries. There are two types of content:
- Content Types (CT), which the user defines uniquely and individually for each entry.
- References, through which the user references the contents of other collections and links them to the entry.
![](https://dytab.github.io/user-manual/user-interface-overview/product-table-page-en.png)