CMDBuild includes two main modules:
- the Administration Module, only for administrators users, is intended for the startup of the basic configuration and the consecutive modifications.
- the Data Management Module, used by operators, lets you manage for the data cards consultation and update, run the processes, print of the reports, etc.
The Administration Module is the administrator's interface and allows to process all configuration operations of the system.
This means in particular:
- configuring the data model of the CMDB, in terms of classes, attributes, relations, including the definition of certain behaviors of the user interface (contextual menus, widgets, etc.)
- configuring the workflows through the definition of the data persistence and import of the XPDL descriptor of the flow
- configuring the reports through the import of the XML descriptor that describes its layout and dashboards
- configuring the security aspects (roles, users, permissions, tenants)
In more detail, the main features in Administration Module include:
- data model definition
- creation of new classes, i.e. new object typologies
- creation and change of (common and geographical) attributes in a class
- definition of widgets to place in the management form of the class
- definition of persistence information in workflows (classes of a particular type)
- import of the flow externally designed (XPDL file)
- printing of Data Model (complete or bounded to the requested class)
- creation of domains, i.e. types od relations and any related attributes
- creation of tablelists (lookup) to manage attributes with closed values
- definition of filters and views
- creation of predefined filters used during the data reference on the data cards
- creation of views, both through filters on data and SQL queries
- definition of navigation trees (used in the GIS and in the Relation Graph)
- definition of dashboards and reports
- dashboard configuration
- import of custom XML reports' layout externally designed
- security management
- creation of users
- creation of user groups (roles)
- definition of permissions on classes and processes (also restricted to subsets of rows and columns) and on other items managed in the system (views, search filters, reports, dashboards)
- definition of custom menus for different users' groups
- configuration of the Task Manager and of the operations to execute in the background
- e-mail management (accounts and templates)
- configurations of GIS and BIM
- localization into several languages
- definition of the system parameters
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