HWS Main

This help section describes the main page, or index, of HWS and some common page sections which are always available to the user.

A page in HWS has a simple layout: a header section at the top of the page, a navigation section to the left, and the remaining space is reserved for content.

The header section holds a number of buttons in the top-right corner. The purpose of these buttons is self-explanatory, but are listed in the table below nonetheless.

About Show information about HWS.
Status Lists some statistics of HWS.
Logout Logout from site and relinquish access permissions.
Login Login as a certain user. The user is presented a dialog box for entering a username and password. In case of a successful login, a notification is printed just below "Login" button.

Furthermore there is a help icon (Help Icon) in the bottom-right corner. Clicking on the icon opens a relatively small browser window containing help on a specific subject. The subject is related to the page being displayed.

On the left side of each page there is a navigation bar which shows a hierarchy of device types and some privileged operations. The device type hierarchy allows the user to quickly get an overview of the device models stored in the database. The privileged operations can be divided in user operations and administrator operations. The user operations are:

Administrator operations include:

The content of the main page of HWS shows the latest news items related to the site, and the most recent changes to hardware components. The latter are listed in a table and show only basic information about the changes.