Introduction

Aspire 2.0 introduces a new user interface, which allows users to manage content sources and services in a cleaner, simpler and more efficient way. This new UI brings the concept of "content sources" and "services" to the forefront making creating and managing them much easier for both administrators and developers (services are available only in 2.1)

Aspire UI is capable of running on the most used browsers. Aspire 2.0 UI Browser Compatibility

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Aspire UI Layout

Aspire UI has a general layout for all its pages, this layout consist of four sections

• User Bar

Contains Aspire's logo (also a direct link to the Home Page), the title of the current page, and the user name currently logged on and the "Sign out" option. In cases where Aspire doesn't have a security measure configured, instead of the user name the word "Anonymous" will appear

• Action Bar

Contains the general functional groups for the current page, on the left side of the bar there are always the links to the Aspire Wiki, Debug Console, Aspire UI Home Page and a link that will cause a page refresh.

• Main Container

This section holds the main information for each page and it will change depending on the context of the page.

• Footer

The Footer marks the end of the page and it displays the current version of aspire on the left, and a link to Search Technologies web page at the right

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Aspire UI Pages

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Login

Aspire UI features a new Login page that will appear once you have configured the administrator security access for Aspire. Aspire does not require administrator security access, it can run in "anonymous" mode.

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