Working with the new Admin GUI (en/book/our Dashboard)

XOOPS 2.5 has as a default a new Admin GUI – the “Oxygen”, developed by Voltan (Hossien Azizabadi), and which is based on EXM created by Bit3CR0 (Eduardo Cortés).

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Figure 1: Oxygen - XOOPS Admin screen theme

Our new Dashboard is a major move forward toward improved ease of use for XOOPS users, with nice GUI and clear pull-down menus, as well with System Information and helpful Tabs. 1) On the very top you see a Toolbar (1) with several buttons:

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that provide a direct access to the System Options:

Icon	Function
	Avatars
	Banners
	Blocks
	Comments
	Groups
	Image Manager
	Mail Users
	Maintenance
	Modules
	Preferences
	Smilies
	Templates
	User Ranks
	Users
	Help

2) The System Options are also visible in the Pane (2)

3) The “Installed Modules” Pane (3) shows images of the currently installed modules 4) In the “System Overview” Pane (4), you can check your current System values (like PHP and Apache versions, and most important configuration values, as well as more info about XOOPS, and links to our Gift shop, in case you would like to purchase a T-Shirt or coffee mug with XOOPS Logo.

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Figure 2: Admin GUI showing system information

5) New in 2.5.0 is the additional Pane with new extra Tabs:

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Figure 3: New Extra Tabs

The new Tabs provide extra information for the Administrator:

Icon	Function
	Help
	Waiting Content
	New Members
	Top Posters
	Recent Comments

XOOPS 2.5.0 provides couple of “skins” that you can change for a different look of the default theme, with currently available: Dark and Silver:

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Figure 4: Switching to "Silver" skin

Of course, you will be able to create your own skins, if desired.

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Figure 5: Control Panel Menu items

In the Control Panel Menu you have following choices:

Menu Item	Description
Home Page	It will get you to your Homepage
XOOPS News	It will pull latest XOOPS news from www.xoops.org
Logout	It will log you out from your website

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Figure 6: Module menu items

The Modules Menu will show all installed modules, and in a submenu for each of them – their individual options.

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Figure 7: Preferences menu items

The Preferences Menu shows preferences for XOOPS as well as individual modules that you have installed on your system.

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Figure 8: Links Menu items The Links Menu provides you with links to useful sites:

• XOOPS Website

• XOOPS modules repository

• XOOPS Themes gallery

• XOOPS Project location on SourceForge