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# User Guide

Day-to-day administration in the Control Plane UI.

The Control Plane UI has three groups in its sidebar:

* **Overview** – the [Dashboard](/visdom-control-plane/user-guide/dashboard-and-settings.md), the suite's Home page.
* **Manage** – [Projects](/visdom-control-plane/user-guide/projects-and-repositories.md) and [Users](/visdom-control-plane/user-guide/users-and-permissions.md).
* **Configure** – [Permissions](/visdom-control-plane/user-guide/users-and-permissions.md#granting-a-role), [Secrets](/visdom-control-plane/user-guide/secrets.md) and [Settings](/visdom-control-plane/user-guide/dashboard-and-settings.md#settings).

The module rail on the left edge is shared by every Visdom product: Home, Orchestrator, Context Fabric and Tracing, the project switcher, and the gear that opens Settings.

A typical first hour:

1. Sign in with an account that has the `control-plane-admin` realm role.
2. Create a project and add its repositories. Set the repository token and run the connection test.
3. Ask the people who will use the platform to sign in once, so they appear under Users.
4. Grant each of them sign-in access to the products they need, and a role in the project.
5. Open Orchestrator, Context Fabric or Tracing: the project is already there.


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