Control Panel / Administration

After you have successfully logged in into your administrative area, you will be able see the main administrative panel at the top of the screen, which contains links to all CMS interfaces.

• Dashboard - Displays general information about your website and lets you create quick articles and moderate comments.
• Content - Managing content of your website - articles, comments, pages and forms.
• Categories - Managing site structure, categories and topics
• Files - Document/Asset management
• Users - User, user-groups and user privileges section
• Layout - Themes, layouts and templates managing section

Depending on the usergroup you have been allocated you may use some or all of the functions in the administrative panel. For more information, visit User vs. Roles section

On the left hand site, next to the “VIVVO” logo is the View live site link.

View live site allows you to take instant preview of the web site as if it were actually in a production environment, where everyone using the Internet would see exactly what you see. If you are in Live Site mode you can easily switch to site Administration mode, allowing you to make changes to those postings you have access rights to.

Above Main Admin Panel

• Preferences - Takes you to detailed Website Preferences management section
• Maintenance - Website maintenance section (Database management section)
• Plug-ins - Takes you to the plug-ins menu

Secondary Admin Panel

The secondary administrative panel also contains your login information and the logout button that finishes your administrative session.

Please pay attention to the left side of a screen where the Quick Launch menu is located.

The Quick Launch menu contains quick links to most commonly-used Vivvo functions such as: Vivvo CMS, Home Page, Online Documentation and such.

Below the Quick launch options you may find some useful Vivvo support links and Latest News section where you may read the latest information about Vivvo security patches, available upgrades, etc.