Understanding the Web Interface

The information available through Arcadia Enterprise homepage helps you learn how to use our web interface.

Let's look at the default home page and all its features.

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Arcadia Enterprise Home Page

The default Homepage for Arcadia Enterprise contains the following items:

  1. Main or Top navigation, which enables you to directly access the following interfaces:
    • Home interface, described in this article.
    • Visuals interface, for building Visuals and Dashboards in Visual Designer, and for managing and launching Apps.
    • Data interface, with access to Datasets, Connections, and the Connection Explorer.

    • menu, which enables users to access Set Homepage (custom), and check Job Status.

      Users with administrative privileges can make Site Administration changes to the following functionality:

      • The Activity Log interface displays all recorded events generated by the data processing requests.
      • The Users & Groups interface helps you to manage accounts of all users and user groups, and grant them varying privileges and levels of access.
      • The Manage Roles interface helps you to define roles as a set of privileges, and assign them to users or user groups.
      • The Manage API Keys interface helps you to authenticate with the system to perform some of the administrative tasks.
      • The Email Templates interface helps you to create separate email templates for communicating with various stakeholders, departments, or users who have clearly defined roles in the organization.
      • The Custom Styles interface helps you to apply styling options for the appearance of visuals and applications.
      • The Custom Colors interface helps you to define custom color palettes for styling visuals and applications.
      • The Custom Dates interface helps you to define custom sets of date ranges, and anchor them to a specific date and time.
      • The Static Assets interface helps you to save and manage images, CSS files, and JS files as static assets, and use them across all reports to standardize the appearance and behavior of visuals and dashbaords.
      • The Site Settings interface helps you to configure site-wide settings and settings at the level of individual visuals, dashboards, and filters.
    • Help menu, which includes links to features in the new release of Arcadia Enterprise. Documentation, Knowledge Base articles, YouTube videos, an e-mail to contact our support team (support@arcadiadata.com), License information, and the release number of the running instance of Arcadia Enterprise.

    • User management menu, which includes password change and logout options. The username identifies the current user.
  2. Banner Stats shows the number of Dashboards, Apps, Datasets, and Total Views that the user can access.
  3. Existing Visuals pane provides quick access to visuals and dashboards that are:
    • Last Viewed by You
    • Recently Created by You
    • Overall Most Popular
    • Sample Dashboards
  4. New Dashboard link take you to the Dashboard Designer interface, where you can create new dashboards and visuals.
  5. New App link takes you to the App Designer interface, where you can quickly build and style custom BI apps from existing dashboards and visuals.
  6. Stats for Last 7 Days include how many dashboards, apps, and datasets were created.
  7. Links under Learn point to What's New in this version of Arcadia Enterprise, and our Documentation, Knowledge Base articles, and YouTube channel.