DeliverPoint dashboard

When you click DeliverPoint from the Settings menu, the DeliverPoint dashboard is displayed, which allows you to complete your permission management tasks on any SharePoint object, such as a site or a site collection, depending on the permissions you have on that object.

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The dashboard page is divided into areas and commands are displayed on contextual Ribbon tabs as described below:

• Tree view area. When the DeliverPoint dashboard is first displayed, in the tree view area, each Web Application in your SharePoint farm is shown. This is known as the Farm Centric view. The tree view area can also be used to display an Account Centric view. You can switch between the two views using the View menu. Your SharePoint farm administrator can modify how the SharePoint objects are displayed in the tree view.
  

• Results pane. As you complete different permission related tasks using DeliverPoint commands, the results pane is used to display the results of those tasks. Some DeliverPoint commands do not use the results pane, but open new windows. When you first display the DeliverPoint dashboard, the result pane displays information on how to use the commands on the View Ribbon tab, navigate the tree view, and a legend of the icons that appear in the tree view.

• Interrogation status area. This area displays the date and time that the SharePoint farm was last crawled. A dialog box will from time to time be displayed, if DeliverPoint has recognised that the DeliverPoint interrogation jobs have run, and that the data on the dashboard may be out-of-date.
  
  
  
  
• Properties pane: Used to display an operation summary of the object selected. The properties pane is displayed only when using the Farm Centric view.

*Note. DeliverPoint dashboard is security trimmed so that those using it can only see information and perform DeliverPoint commands within their native scope of authority that is defined within your Microsoft® SharePoint® deployment.

The DeliverPoint dashboard consists of the following Ribbon tabs:

• View. This Ribbon tab contains the following commands:
  
  
  
  
  • Farm Centric. This command is only visible when you are in Account Centric view. Use to display the farm centric view in the tree view area
    
    
  • Account Centric. This command is only visible when you are in Farm Centric view. Use to display the account centric view in the tree view area.
    
    
  • Job Status and History. Use to display the Job Status and History page.
    
    
  • Treeview Legend. Displays a legend of the icons used in both the farm centric and account views,
    
    
  • Online Documentation. Displays the online documentation for DeliverPoint 2013.
    
    
  • Help. Displays the LightningTools support centre where you can submit support tickets and search the support knowledge base. Anyone can submit a support ticket, however if you register with the LightningTools support centre you will be able to track the progress of any support tickets you raise.
    
    
• Commands. This contextual Ribbon tab is displayed when a SharePoint object is selected in the treeview area, and contains the following contextual Ribbon groups and commands:
  
  
  
  
  • Common, which contains the commands:
    
    
    • Discover Permissions
      
      
    • Permission Inheritance split button, with the commands Inherit Permissions and Break Permissions.
      
      
    • Properties
      
      
    • Open. Use this command to open the default page for the SharePoint object in a new tab in the browser. This is an easy way of quickly navigating to the SharePoint object.
      
      
  • Account Management
    
    
    • Copy Permission
      
      
    • Grant Permissions
      
      
    • Transfer Permissions
      
      
    • Delete Permissions
      
      
    • Dead Accounts
      
      
    • Unique Permissions. This command is only available if you are using the Account Centric view.
      
      
  • Site Management
    
    
    • Compare Site Permissions
      
      
    • Copy Site Permissions
      
      
    • Unique Lists.
      
      
  • List Management
    
    
    • Copy List Permissions
      
      
    • View Folders
      
      
• Report. This contextual Ribbon tab is displayed when DeliverPoint commands use the results pane to display the outcome of the tasks. The tabs contains one Ribbon group, which contains commands relative to the results that are displayed.
  
  
  • Export to Spreadsheet. Use this command to export the outcomes of the DeliverPoint command to an Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
    
    
  • Delete Accounts

Other DeliverPoint pages may contain other DeliverPoint Ribbon tabs, Ribbon groups and commands.