OpenText DAST user interface

When you first start OpenText DAST, the application displays the Start Page as illustrated below.

The Activity Panel

The left pane (the Activity Panel) displays hyperlinks to the following major functions:

Closing the Activity Panel

You can close the Activity Panel by clicking the Left Arrow on the bar above the pane.

The Button Bar

The contents of the right pane are determined by the button selected on the Button bar identified in the following image.

The choices are described in the following table.

Button	Displayed List
Home	Displays a list of recently opened scans, as well as scans scheduled to be conducted today, recently generated reports, and messages downloaded from the OpenText server. If you hover the pointer over a scan name, OpenText DAST displays summary information about the scan. If you click the scan name, OpenText DAST opens the scan on a separate tab.
Manage Scans	Displays a list of previously conducted scans, which you can open, rename, or delete. Click Connections to choose a database: either Local (scans stored in a SQL Server Express Edition database on your machine) or Remote (scans stored in a SQL Server Standard Edition database configured on your machine or elsewhere on the network), or both. For more information, see Manage Scans.
Manage Schedule	Displays a list of scans that are scheduled to be performed. You can add a scan to the schedule, edit or delete a scheduled scan, or start the scan manually. For more information, see Managing scheduled scans.

Button

Displayed List

Home

Displays a list of recently opened scans, as well as scans scheduled to be conducted today, recently generated reports, and messages downloaded from the OpenText server.

If you hover the pointer over a scan name, OpenText DAST displays summary information about the scan. If you click the scan name, OpenText DAST opens the scan on a separate tab.

Manage Scans

Displays a list of previously conducted scans, which you can open, rename, or delete. Click Connections to choose a database: either Local (scans stored in a SQL Server Express Edition database on your machine) or Remote (scans stored in a SQL Server Standard Edition database configured on your machine or elsewhere on the network), or both. For more information, see Manage Scans.

Manage Schedule

Displays a list of scans that are scheduled to be performed. You can add a scan to the schedule, edit or delete a scheduled scan, or start the scan manually. For more information, see Managing scheduled scans.

Panes Associated with a Scan

Each time you open or conduct a scan, OpenText DAST opens a tab labeled with the name or description of the target site. This work area is divided into three regions, as depicted in the following illustration.

Item	Description
1	Navigation Pane
2	Information Pane
3	Summary Pane

If you have a large number of scans open at the same time, and there is no room to display all tabs, you can scroll the tabs by clicking the arrows on the extreme right end of the tab bar. Click the X to close the selected tab.

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