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Hard to get to the left-navigation panel

Added by Todd Nakamura almost 9 years ago

Ok,

I just registered on the site about 15 minutes ago, and I’m finding it to be a really odd design choice that the full height left navigation panel with Overview, Activity, Roadmap, Work Packages, etc. isn’t visible unless you click into “? Help”?? Is this true, or is there something I’m completely missing?

How does everyone typically start a new project, and navigate through the features of your project(s)?


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RE: Hard to get to the left-navigation panel - Added by Hagen Schink almost 9 years ago

Hi Todd,

first a question about the context: On which page did you register, on OpenProject.org

In general, the left navigation panel is only visible in a project context. Thus, before you get that menu you need to select a project. By clicking ? Help you indirectly selected a project because ? Help links to the OpenProject project on OpenProject.org (which would answer my initial question).

So, typically, an administrator creates a project first and then, afterwards, a user can select the project to work in it. If you set up OpenProject yourself, you can use the Global Roles plug-in to allow normal users to create a project themselves.

I hope this answer helps you getting used to OpenProject.

Kind regards,
Hagen

RE: Hard to get to the left-navigation panel - Added by Todd Nakamura almost 9 years ago

Hello Hagen,

I’m actually not sure which page I used to register. I just clicked on a register link that I saw available, and ran through the process.

I understand the “? Help” link now, and the fact that I’m viewing the OpenProject project. What I don’t understand now though is what I’m looking at when I click into the “My Page” link at the top, and see a screen that looks like the attached screenshot. On this screen, I just see “Work packages assigned to me” and “Reported work packages”. I guess I’m just confused about the whole context of what I’m looking at. Is the openproject.org site supposed to be a hosted platform that allows me to create my own projects or is this site just a demo of the features?

Is the whole point that I run OpenProject by installing the Ruby code from GitHub on my own Linux machine? Sorry for asking such a possibly obvious sounding question, but I’m brand new around here and based on everything I’ve read on the site, how to get started isn’t overwhelmingly clear to me.

RE: Hard to get to the left-navigation panel - Added by Hagen Schink almost 9 years ago

Hello Todd,

the My Page is a user specific (project independent) page that shows you some user related data (you can extend the My Page by clicking on Personalize this page). So, again, here you won’t find any project-specific functions.

If you like to play around with OpenProject in more detail, you have the following two options:

  1. Create a demo instance on openproject-demo.org. This lets you create a demo instance on which you can play around as an administrator and test all the functionality OpenProject provides. But beware that this is not intended for production purposes!
  2. Install OpenProject on a local machine.

Regarding your previous post I suppose that the first option is your way to go.

Actually I have to excuse that these options are not advertised.

Kind regards,
Hagen

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