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Understanding the admin interface
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   How to use the menus on the admin interface.

Available menus
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Civio Engage admin interface

The Civio Engage admin interface is designed to be intuitive and easy-to-use. There are two menus where you'll find all the tools you need for your next project:

- **User menu** - your personal profile information
- **Left-hand menu** - manage and view projects, teams or users and settings. Clicking different items will expand the left-hand menu to display a relevant sub-menu for each item.

*Note: Only users with accurate permissions can access the configuration interface and edit content. Contact your Civio Engage administrator for more information.*

On this page we'll explore the different functions in each menu.

User menu
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User menu

**Menu item****Description****My profile**View your personal profile details.**Manage profile**Update your account details, password, categories of interest, enable two-factor authorisation.**Change to dark theme**Switch between dark and light theme in your personal admin interface.

*Note: This setting exclusively applies to the admin interface of your website and does not affect public users***API**Generate and manage API tokens for external platform integrations. Only available to administrators. [Learn how to create an API key](https://knowledge.civio.net/hc/en-au/articles/[API-KEY-ARTICLE-ID]).**Logout**Log out of Civio Engage.**Logout**Log out of Civio Engage.Left-hand menu
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Left-hand menu

**Menu item****Description****Icon****Dashboard**A visual representation of data that provides an overview of key performance indicators, metrics, and other relevant information for your engagement site.![Dashboard icon.png](/storage/articles/9176373712271.png)

**Content**An overview of the content and engagement tools on your site, including Pages, Documents, Updates, Events, Surveys and Timelines.![](/storage/articles/11195644105999.png)

**Projects**An overview of projects you have access to, and where you can create new projects.![](/storage/articles/11195644106767.png)

**Emails**An overview of Emails and outbound notifications you have access to, and where you can create and configure new ones.![](/storage/articles/11195644107023.png)

**People**An overview of all users, including participants and internal users, and see their role and contact details. You can add new users here.![](/storage/articles/11195644107919.png)

**Settings**Manage settings for your website. This menu is restricted to users with appropriate permissions.![](/storage/articles/11195644108303.png)

**Public View**Opens the public view in a new tab from the home page.![](/storage/articles/11195644108559.png)

Project sub-menu
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When you click on a specific project, the sub-menu will display available actions or tools for that project. This sub-menu will be different for each project.

This example is for a "Demonstration community project":

![image (4).jpeg](/storage/articles/9176459141647.jpg)

**Menu item****Description****Report**View your reporting dashboard, preview, or edit.**Content**The available content tools for your project. Click on a tool for more details.**Participation**The available participation tools for your project. Click on a tool for more details.Recent and Recent projects
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The **Recent** and **Recent projects** sub-menus give you quick access to pages or project pages you have recently viewed.

The **Recent** sub-menu displays when the **Dashboard** menu is clicked, and it contains quick links to recently visited pages.

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Recent is a sub-menu of the Dashboard menu

The **Recent** **projects** sub-menu displays when the **Projects** menu is clicked, and it contains quick links to recently viewed projects.

![image (6).jpeg](/storage/articles/9176422901007.jpg)

Recent projects is a sub-menu of the Projects menu

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