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Administration is a single location to manage users, groups, and roles across File Analysis Suite.

  • The term user refers to a user of File Analysis Suite and to the record of that user that exists in Administration. Users can be employees, consultants, or other parties that require access to your File Analysis Suite environment.

  • Groups provide a way to organize your users.

  • Roles define access to Administration and to integrated File Analysis Suite components. Roles can be assigned to a group or to an individual user.

Administration includes several default roles.

When getting started with the application, manage your users in the following order:

File Analysis Suite home page

After a successful log on, the File Analysis Suite home page opens. From the home page, you can access all components within File Analysis Suite that you have access to.

From within each File Analysis Suite component UI, click File Analysis Suite or the File Analysis Suite icon (FAS) above the primary navigation panel to navigate to the other UIs within the application.

Administration UI

Administration includes the following general features:

  • Retract the navigation panel to show only the icons for the top level menu items. When you click one of the icons in the retracted navigation panel, the panel expands to full width. If you click a menu item that has sub-items, the navigation panel and menu items expand and the page does not change until you click the sub-item; if you click a menu items that does not have sub-items, the navigation panel expands and you are taken to the appropriate page.

  • Click the help icon () to open the Help Center.

  • Click the user icon () to see the user you are logged in as or to log out. If logged in as a system (non-federated) user, you can change your password.

  • Where applicable in a list view:

    • Click anywhere in a list row to select (highlight) the row. This also reveals applicable action icons in the right column.

    • Click the item name to open the edit dialog.

    • Hover over the row to reveal applicable action icons in the right column.

    • Click the open detail panel icon () above the list column headers to open a detail panel for the selected item; click the close icon () in the upper right corner of the panel to close the detail panel.