Introduction to Administering GeoNode (Basics)

• Sign in as admin

  

• Notice that as a superuser you will have more options available from the profile dropdown menu

  

• Click on Admin in order to get redirected to the Django Administration Dashboard

  

Django Administration Dashboard

The dashboard is a special section accessible, at least on GeoNode, only to superusers.

Through the dashboard an admin can access special functions and can interact directly with the models stored on the DB.

This is particularly usefull when we need to recover from an unusual situation, for example a layer could not successfully finish the configuation or some error occurred in the meanwhile.

Notice that the dashboard is composed by several sections. In this introductionary module we will focus on some of them, the most common ones.

Announcements

This section allows an admin to create or change public announcements to the portal.

There are several types of announcements and those can be public, which means anyone will be able to see them, or Members Only, which means that only registered users will be able to see them.

Important: Remember, when creating a new announcement, make sure the Site Wide option is enabled

Base Administration

This section allows an admin to customize some of the default Metadata contents of GeoNode, like:

• Licenses
• Topic Categories
• Keywords
• Metadata Regions

Not all the sections can be changed.

Warning: Change those contents only if you know what you are doing!

People

This section allows an admin to manage the system users (i.e. the registered members).

Through this panel it is possible to:

• Create/modify/delete users
• Diasable users or update/change their passwords
• Promote a user to superuser

Resources: Documents, Geoapps, Layers and Maps

This section allows an admin to manage the GeoNode resources.

Through this panel it is possible to:

• Modify/delete resources
• Publish/unpublish resources

GeoNode Themes Library

This section allows an admin to manage the GeoNode simple themes.

For more informations please check the GeoNode documents section Simple Theming.

Next Section: Mastering GeoNode data publishing and management (GN2)