User Guide
This guide is for the people who work in the LyEve admin console: editors who write and publish content, and administrators who manage content types, users and roles. It needs no code. If you run the server, see the Operator guide. If you call the APIs from your own code, see the Developer guide.
Signing in
Section titled “Signing in”Open the console at the address your operator gave you and sign in with your email and password. If you have no account, ask an administrator to create one. Below the form you can choose Forgot password? or Email me a sign-in link, and a Sign in with button appears for each identity provider your instance is set up for. After several failed attempts the form can ask you to complete a captcha.
A new install has no accounts yet. Its console opens a setup page that asks for the setup token and creates the first administrator, as Installation describes.
Your first hour
Section titled “Your first hour”- Core concepts: content types, entries, tenants and roles, the words every screen uses.
- Your first content type: define a content type with a relation, preview the change and apply it. The Schema builder in the console does the same.
- Creating and editing content: fill in an entry under Content and see what each field type expects.
- Drafts, publishing and revisions: publish, schedule, compare two revisions and restore an earlier one.
- Media library: upload files, sort them into folders and attach them to entries.
- Users, roles and permissions: who may do what, and how to give someone access.
Common jobs
Section titled “Common jobs”| I need to... | Read |
|---|---|
| Add or change a field on a content type | Schema changes |
| Start from a ready-made content model | Schema presets |
| Write, save and publish an entry | Creating and editing content |
| Publish at a set time, or undo a change | Drafts, publishing and revisions |
| Send an entry through review before it goes live | Editorial review |
| Find entries once there are many | Search and organization |
| Upload an image and use it in an entry | Media library |
| Load a spreadsheet of entries at once | Bulk import |
| Create an account or change someone's role | Users, roles and permissions |
| Limit a role to some content types or fields | Access rules |
| Give a website its own key | API keys |
| Automate a task without code | Flows |
| Export or erase one person's data | Data protection |
A screen appears in the sidebar only while the feature behind it runs for your tenant, and some
screens appear only for an admin or a super_admin. Working with entries in the console takes
the admin or super_admin role. The editor role writes through the Content API.
Related
Section titled “Related”- Features: every feature, and whether it is free.
- Getting started: what LyEve is and how to install it.