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To begin, launch the application, either by clicking on the icon installed on your desktop by the installation package or by typing | To begin, launch the application, either by clicking on the icon installed on your desktop by the installation package or by typing appropriate URL in your web browser (The URL can be of the form http://localhost/dolibarr/ for local installation but can be different in the case of a manual installation, in that case it will depend on the configuration of your Web server). | ||
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Revision as of 06:31, 23 August 2013
Starting the application:
To begin, launch the application, either by clicking on the icon installed on your desktop by the installation package or by typing appropriate URL in your web browser (The URL can be of the form http://localhost/dolibarr/ for local installation but can be different in the case of a manual installation, in that case it will depend on the configuration of your Web server).
Connection (Login):
Login:
login: the last step of the installation (eg admin) password: the last step of the installation (eg changeme)
Homepage:
Once logged in, you see the home page. It contains menu bars (one horizontal bar and one vertical bar) and more informations in the center:
- A box reminding your login account and the date of last access.
- A box of statistics related to all activated modules.
- A box showing 'tasks' table (table containing informations of tasks to be done and tasks behind schedule). A weather sums it up.
- In the lower part, there may be other information boxes. The list depends upon boxes activated via the menu Home->Setup->Boxes.
Each menu in the horizontal bar is related to one module. When a module is activated its associated menu appears in the horizontal menu bar. The menu entry of a module does not appear in the menus untill the module has been activated. To activate a module, see page First_setup.
To use a module, click on the menu associated with the module, a menu appears in the vertical bar to perform various tasks related to that module.
For example, to list the products in stock (function provided by the Products and Stock modules, click on the menu / Products.
On the left you have the menu to perform various tasks related to the activated module Products and Stocks.
Note that the organization of the menus depends on the choice of menu manager configured in Home->Setup->Menus.
Features:
Each functionality is provided by a module, they are documented in the module documentation. For a complete list of modules and their documentation, see the following pages:
- The list of standard modules is defined in page Category:List_of_Modules
- The list of add-ons is set in the Add-ons page Category:Complementary_modules