Using the Control Panels

With Tiki, you can complete all configuration and administration tasks from your Web browser, simply by using the Control panels (Administration pages).

Using the Quick Administration module

Use the Quick Administration module (enabled by default on a new Tiki installation) to quickly access some of the most common Control panels.
Quick Administration module

By default, the Quick Administration module contains the following buttons


To access the main administration page, select the Settings > Control Panels option in the Menu module.
Selecting Control Panels option in Menu

 Tip

You can also access the Administration page by typing http://www.yourdomain.com/tiki-admin.php in your web browser or by clicking Control Panels in the Quick Admin links.


The Administration page provides links to each section's own administration page. Features that have not been turned on are shown "grayed out" (such as the Blogs, in the example below).
The Control Panels page showing disabled items.
Use the Help button (available on all administration pages) to find detailed help from the Tiki documentation.

Using recent preferences

Tiki automatically remembers each control panel or administration option that you access.

Use the Recent Preferences option in the Quick Administration module to quickly return to any previously configured option.
Recent Preferences

Finding and filtering preferences

Tiki has thousands of features, options, and settings. To help new administrators, use the Preference Filters to display only the most common options. If you are following along with this guide, be sure to enable the Basic and Advanced filters.
Filtering the configuration preferences

 Tip

Use the Preferences Search to quickly find any Tiki setting or option on any administration page. Searching for configuration preferences

 note

By default, Tiki uses an English language interface. However, Tiki has been translated into more then 40 languages. To use Tiki in your language:
  1. Click the i18n button.
  2. On the Administration: i18n page, use the Default Language field to select your language.
  3. Click Save.

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