Items in the Standard View
The navigation pane is located on the left. It gives you access to sets of administrative functions:
- Home. This is where you modify settings related to your account, manage Web sites and e-mail services.
- Sessions. When site and mailbox owners log in to control panel, or connect to the server via FTP protocol, they establish sessions that you can monitor and terminate.
- Global Account. This shortcut appears in your Plesk Control Panel when the single sign-on capabilities are switched on the hosting server. Single sign-on technology allows you to log in to different Parallels products using a single global login name and password. This shortcut is used for changing the global login settings.
- Help Desk. This is the help desk system integrated with your control panel. If your provider uses it, then you can use it to report your problems to provider's technical support staff.
- Help. Provides context sensitive help.
- Log Out. When finished working with control panel, click this icon to close your session.
- Desktop in the SiteBuilder group. The Desktop screen is divided into two areas: Tasks and Statistics. In the Tasks area you can see an overview of main functionalities of the Administrator Panel. In the Statistics area you can see how many users, sites, are currently in the system.
- Sites in the SiteBuilder group. On this screen you can see the list of available websites created in SiteBuilder and manage them.
- Server in the SiteBuilder group. This page allows you access to the SiteBuilder's server administration functions.
Below the Help icon, there is a context help tip area. It provides a brief description of the current screen or available operations. When you place the mouse pointer over a system element or status icon, it displays additional information.
To navigate through Plesk, you can also use a path bar: a chain of links that appears in the right part of the screen, below the banner area. To return to a previous screen, use
Up Level in the upper-right corner of the screen.
To find items in lengthy lists, use search boxes located above every list of items: type a search criterion into the input box, and click Search. A list will show the items matching the search criteria. To return back to viewing all items, click Show All. You can hide the search area by clicking Hide Search. To show the hidden search area, click Show Search.
To sort a list by a certain parameter in ascending or descending order, click on the parameter's title in the column heading. The order of sorting will be indicated by a small triangle displayed next to the parameter's title.
To customize your control panel in Standard view, refer to the Customizing Your Control Panel section.