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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.

Administration landing page

The user interface is separated into several different sections.

Top Navigation Panel

The top of the page contains the header with several elements starting on the left with the logo:

Navigation Item

Description

Logo

The logo and the version label inform what version you are accessing at a glance.

Browse

The browse button allows you to switch to the Browse menu items in the main menu section on the left of the user interface. The contents of the menu depend on the assigned user privileges.

Administration

The administration button leads to the Administration menu. The contents of the menu depend on the assigned user privileges.

Search

Use the search input box to start a keyword search. The results are displayed in the feature view panel.

Refresh

A global refresh button for all views in the user interface.

Help

Opens the help menu specific to the active feature view. The About item displays a dialog with details about the version as well as license and copyright information. The Documentation, Knowledge base, Community, Issue tracker, and Support items link to the respective pages on the Sonatype websites.

Account

The user account button functions to access the Account feature view as part of the User menu in the main menu on the left with any other user features the account can access.

Sign In/Out

Provide or remove credentials to the user interface as a specific user. Provides access to the privileges of the user and their role.

Left Navigation Panel

The main menu on the left contains either the Browse, the Administration, or the User menu items. The exact list of available menu items depends on the current user’s assigned privileges.

E.g., the Administration menu as visible in Figure: “User Interface for Logged In admin User” includes the Security section, which is not available to anonymous users by default.

  • The panel may horizontally collapse and expand with the button in the top right-hand corner of the panel.

  • Each submenu can be vertically collapsed and expanded with the button beside the title for each submenu.

  • Selecting a menu item triggers the display of the respective feature view in the feature view panel.

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.

Example user list

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.

Example detailed view of anonymous user profile

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.