The ControlPoint Configuration Site
The ControlPoint Configuration site is a SharePoint site that is integral to your ControlPoint installation.
This site is used primarily for managing ControlPoint users and permissions and menus that display in the ControlPoint left navigation pane. To manage groups you either need direct rights to manage the groups or be a site collection administrator.
If you are a site collection administrator for the ControlPoint Configuration site collection, you can access the site's administration pages and ControlPoint value-added features from the Hierarchy panel. See ControlPoint Security for more detail.
If you have sufficient permissions (regardless of whether you are the site collection administrator), you can access the site's home page:
·from the SharePoint Hierarchy tab, by right clicking the ControlPoint Configuration Site - Root Site and choosing Open Site.
·from the Manage tab, by choosing ControlPoint Configuration Site.
The ControlPoint Interface
The ControlPoint interface employs a two-pane design. From the left (navigation) pane, you can select the SharePoint object(s) on which you want to operate and available functionality. The right (workspace) pane is where the feature you choose is displayed.
Icons
ControlPoint uses the following icons to identify items that display in the left navigation pane.
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The SharePoint Farm |
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A ControlPoint Search feature See also Searching for SharePoint Sites. |
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A SharePoint Web application |
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A SharePoint Site collection NOTE: If you are a farm administrator, icons for site collections to which you do not have access may appear grayed out. You can, grant yourself access to these site collections. If you are not a farm administrator (or if the ControlPoint Application Administrator has changed the default configuration to prohibit "super user" privileges for farm administrators), only site collections for which you are a site collection administrator (or site collections that contain sites for which you are an administrator) display. See also ControlPoint Security. |
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A Site collection's root site |
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A SharePoint Site or Subsite whose permissions are inherited from its parent |
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A SharePoint Site or Subsite whose permissions are unique (or not inherited) |
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A SharePoint List NOTE: Variations of this icon are used to represent different types of lists (Document Libraries, Calendars, Announcements, and so on). |
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A SharePoint page |
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SharePoint Users |
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SharePoint Groups |
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A ControlPoint value-added action |
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A ControlPoint value-added (Visual Analytics) analysis. |
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A Server on which SharePoint components are installed |
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A SharePoint Server Service |
ControlPoint Left Navigation Panels
The standard ControlPoint left navigation frame consists of the following four option sets:
·SharePoint Hierarchy
·Manage ControlPoint
·Favorites
·Search
When a ControlPoint operation is initiatedor ControlPoint For Site Admins is launched from within a SharePoint site the left navigation frame provides access to a set of ControlPoint actions and analyses that can be customized for business administrators.