Umbraco Interface

Get an overview of the Umbraco backoffice interface, including the dashboard, sections menu, and content tree.

Initial View

After logging in to an Umbraco project you will be presented with a dashboard containing a wide array of buttons and features. Let's quickly go through what each feature does.

The Dashboard

By default, there are two dashboards available:

1. The Welcome to Umbraco dashboard provides helpful information about Umbraco.
2. The Redirect URL Management dashboard displays the original and redirected links of the published pages which are moved to a new location in your project.

The Dashboard

This dashboard is part of the Content section. Each section is described further down the article.

Search, Help, and Profile Settings

1. The Search bar allows you to search for the content in your entire project.
2. The Help icon provides different Help options such as Tours, Umbraco Learning Base YouTube videos, Umbraco Documentation, and your System Information.
3. The profile icon allows you to edit your profile, change the password, and Logout from the application.

Search, help and profile

The Sections Menu

The following sections are available in the backoffice:

• Content - allows you to manage your content.
• Media - allows you to manage images and other media files.
• Library - allows you to manage your reusable elements.
• Settings - allows you to handle your meta data such as Document Types.
• Packages - allows you to manage add-on packages.
• Users - allows you to manage the users on the project. To learn more about users, see the Users article.
• Members - allows you to handle the members of the project. If you want to learn more about Members, see the Members article.
• Forms - allows you to create and manage your forms (only available if Umbraco Forms is installed).
• Translation - allows you to manage dictionary items.

The Sections Menu

The menu list will differ depending on your permissions for the project. For example: if you are an editor, then you will only have access to Content, Media, Library, and Forms as per the default settings.

The Section Tree

The section tree is different depending on the section you are in.

In this example, you are looking at the content section. The section provides an overview of the nodes contained in the tree.

The Section Tree

The Content tab allows you to create content nodes and manage your content tree. When you hover over the sections, it is highlighted with a darker color indicating that you are hovering over it. A button with three dots will show up, left-click or click the + icon to view additional options.

The Recycle Bin contains the deleted content and is available only in the Content, Library and the Media section.