Logging in to Visualization Platform
The following section describes how to log in to Visualization Platform as a regular user with an assigned home folder, accessing the default volume.
How to log in to Visualization Platform
1 Launch a web browser.
2 In the address bar, type the URL you obtain from your administrator, such as:
http://localhost:8700/iportal
3 In Account Login, in the first field, type the user name, for example, pcastillo. In the next field, type the password for the user, as shown in
Figure 1‑4.
Figure 1‑4 Logging in to Visualization Platform as a user
When a user with an assigned home folder logs in to Visualization Platform, the user’s home folder appears, as shown in
Figure 1‑5. If a user does not have a home folder, the volume root folder, named Documents, appears. The administrator typically creates a home folder for a user when creating the user, and assigns the privileges the user needs.
Figure 1‑5 Viewing the home folder of a user named pcastillo
Accessing a different volume
An out-of-the-box BIRT iHub installation contains a default volume, named Default Volume. If you do not specify a volume name when logging in to Visualization Platform, you log in to the default volume. To access a different volume, specify the volume name during login, as described in the following section.
How to log in to a different volume
1 In the Visualization Platform Login page, in the first field, type the volume name, followed by the backslash (\) character, and the user name.
Figure 1‑6 shows Administrator logging in to a volume called sales_volume.
Figure 1‑6 Logging in to Visualization Platform to access sales_volume
2 Type the password for the user in the next field.
3 Choose Log In.
Modifying user profiles
Using Visualization Platform, users can manage their profile information by changing their e‑mail address, password, time zone, language, home folder path, and dashboard URL. The following section describes how to modify a user’s profile information.
How to modify user profile information
1 Log in to Visualization Platform as a user.
2 Select the user icon to display the menu, then choose My Profile. My Profile appears, as shown in
Figure 1‑7.
Figure 1‑7 Managing user profile information
3 In My Profile, complete the following steps:
Type an optional description for the user.
Type a new e‑mail address.
A user can update or add an e-mail address that Visualization Platform associates with the user. This e-mail address is used to notify a user of document job completion or failure.
The notification can include the generated document as an attachment to the e‑mail message. If e-mail notifications do not arrive, contact your administrator to see if the e-mail service is available.
Select a new language from the list.
Select a different time zone from the list.
Specify a new path to the user’s home folder.
Specify the URL to a dashboard file to which you have access. For example, you can access the /Home/MyDashboard.dashboard file using a URL in the following format:
http://localhost:8700/iportal/dashboard
where <localhost> is the host name or IP address of the BIRT iHub server.
Modify your password.
The administrator sets an initial user name and password for each user. To change the password, complete the following steps:
In Current Password, type your current password.
In Password, type a new password.
In Confirm Password, type the new password once again.
Logging out of a volume
In Visualization Platform, select the user icon to display the menu, as shown in
Figure 1‑8. Then, choose Logout.
Figure 1‑8 Logging out of Visualization Platform
