User Interface Overview
The application is accessed in a web browser. When enabled, Nexus Repository provides anonymous access for users who only need to search for components, browse the repositories, and download components via client tools. Anonymous access includes the main user interface element.
Once logged in, additional features are available depending on the user’s privileges.
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The user interface is separated into several different sections.
Feature View Panel
The feature view panel in the center of the user interface right of the main menu initially displays the Welcome feature view. It changes display based on your selected item in the main menu.
The example below shows a typical user interface appearance of the repository manager with the User feature view in the feature view panel. It shows a list of users.
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Clicking on a row in the list switches the feature view to a specific display for the item in the row. The top-level navigation allows you to get back to the list by clicking on the Users label. The form below has several sections that can be accessed via buttons as well as specific functionality like deletion and their associated buttons.
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The list header features buttons for various operations that differ per list as well as an input box that allows you to filter the list by any terms used in any column. This filtering works for all columns in a list and can be used in most list displays in the repository manager. For example, you can use it to filter the users list to find disabled users, the routing list, the roles list, and others.
The column headers in most lists can be clicked to invoke a sorting of the list by the respective column as well as activate and deactivate some of the columns.