The dashboard and menu bar have changed in the new version of Cascade.
Menu Bar
- Cascade logo.
— Takes you to site dashboard - Drop-down site selector
- displays the sites you have access to
- Add Content menu
- is the replacement for the New menu
- displays the assets you can add to your page
- second level page types, folder, external link, file or image…
- Site content menu
- displays the folders, pages and files of the current website
- brings you to the sites homepage
- Manage Site menu
- was the Administration button
- you do not have to change or edit anything in here
- My Content menu
- displays all of your content
- worted by time of last visit
- Search Bar
- User Profile (blue circle with first letter of your last name
- contains Settings (previously My Settings)
- sign out button
Dashboard
In the upper left of your dashboard displays your home widget.
It contains
- a blue circle with the first letter of your last name
- your name
- the date
- the pink number in the date shows how many messages you have (hopefully none!)
- the Add Widget button
- this brings up a page of available widgets
- the My Sites widget is a quick link to your websites
- the New Content widget contains some of the items that were under the New menu (second level page)
- drag around the widgets to place them on your dashboard
- Reset Dashboard
- this will remove any changes you made to the dashboard
- it will go back to the system default