User Interface Overview
The user interface is accessed via a web browser and works best with our Recommended Browsers. The repository manager provides anonymous access for users who only need to search for components, browse the repositories and access components via client tools such as Maven or NuGet. This anonymous access level is a configurable, read-only mode that includes the main user interface element.
Once a user is logged in further features become available depending on the user’s privileges. For example, the image below shows the main Administration landing page to which an administrator can navigate by selecting the cog icon in the top navigation menu.
The user interface is separated into a number of different sections.
Top Navigation Pane
The top of the page contains the header with a number of elements starting on the left with the logo:
| Navigation Item | Icon (As Applicable) | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Logo and version label | The logo and the version label differ for Nexus Repository Manager OSS and Nexus Repository Manager Pro and allows you to know what version of the repository manager you are accessing at a glance. | |
| Browse button |
| 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 will depend on your assigned user privileges. |
| Administration button |
| The administration button allows to switch to the Administration menu items in the main menu section on the left of the user interface. The contents of the menu will depend on your assigned user privileges. |
| Search input box | The search input box can be used to start a keyword search. The results are displayed in the feature view panel. | |
| Refresh button |
| The refresh button is a global refresh button that affects all views in the user interface including the feature view panel. E.g., it refreshes the search results view, the user list or the staging repository list, if they are currently the active feature view. |
| Help button |
| Clicking the help button opens up the help menu. It contains a link to specific help about the currently 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. |
| User account button |
| 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 |
| The Sign In or Sign Out button allows you to sign into or out of the user interface as a specific user. Doing so gives you access to the privileges assigned to the user, changes the Sign in button to a Sign out button and adds a button displaying the user’s name. |
Left Navigation Pane
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 itself can be horizontally collapsed and expanded 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 Users feature view in the feature view panel. It shows a list of users.
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 get back to the list by clicking on the Users label. The form below has a number of sections that can be accessed via buttons as well as specific functionality like deletion and their associated buttons.
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, filter 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.