Content Management System(CMS) in appRain is a combination of sub-parts like Page Manager, Snip, Components, Theme, Editor and many more. In this post you will get an overview to setup the first stage of the website after installation.

Admin Dashboard

Dashboard is the first page that you see after login Admin Panel. Dashboard has common links to navigate direct to inner section. This page has following common parts.

• Quick Navigation links of different functions that is allowed to access for that user.
• Activity section provide a brief statistics of system like Cache, Component use, Theme, User Activity etc.
• Leave a Message to send a short message to other administrator.

Page Manager

Page Manager has a very wide scope of use. We can assign a page in Menu, inside page, set meta information, Write PHP etc.

Render
You can set render type on right side drop down of page manager(The options appear after you create a page). You can select website menu or a particular segment of a page.

We have other dropdown to set the content type. We select "Text" to render page content in other page or placeholder.
"Smart Link" create the link with the name of page like "www.example.com/aboutus" and "Link" create link like "www.example.com/page/view/aboutus"

Page Inside Page
If you see there is a link "All Codes" bellow the row of page list drop down. Click on that to view pages code like. Copy a code inside other page to render it inside.

Snip Inside Page
You can render PHP code output in a page by using snip. First you have to write PHP code in SNIP snip with proper php tag then have to copy the snip code in a page like bellow
{{name=UI type=staticpage name=samplephp autoformat=off}}
Important: SNIP render inside a page only.

User Management

User Management helps to manage Administrator and Site Users. On administrator add/edit section you can see User Permission(ACL) panel on different part of system. Once a new component install in the system then Access Control Limit area automatically generate in administrator update area.

Components

Components is archive of various module that you can install to attach in the website. Click on "Activate" link to install a component. Generally a new tab appear in Main menu or left side of component to update component data.

All common component like Store, Blog, Gallery, Forum and so many other are available in distribution.

Defaults component automatically create/update database tables and add some dummy data for first presentation.

Change Account Information and password

Step 1: Click on "Account" link on top right of the window to view present account information.
Step 2: Click on "Edit Account" button to edit information.
Edit window has two basic part. Left side panel to update general information and right side panel to change password.

Important: To update password you have to check the top Checkbox to enable the fields for edit.

Admin Setting and Site Options

This to section helps to set website common parameters like Admin Email, Site Title, Rich Text editor setting, pagination and lots other.

E-Mail Templates

E-Mail templates helps to customize system email notification.

Theme

Theme section helps to change website front end theme scheme and update Header, Footer, CSS coding.

Language

Language module helps to update language codes.

Cache and System Log

Cache section helps to clear system cache files.
Log module helps to view system and recover deleted data.

App Editor

This editor specially developed to update any code of system.
** Keep a backup before update any page code. It will help to recover corrupted file.
** App editor require write permission to update any code. You can change file permission by using FTP client.

Backup

Backup module has four functions:
1. Export database to save in Local computer.
2. Import database form Local file.
3. Create backup in Hosting Server.
4. Restore backup form Hosting Server.