The Authoring Dashboard

Every book in Pressbooks includes an admin menu, a set of links and options, that will display on the left hand side of your browser when you’re logged into your book as an administrator, editor, or author.

Dashboard

The book dashboard gives you quick access to the most important admin options for your book. It also provides links to support resources.

Subscription

NOTE: This page only exists for Pressbooks.pub users and won’t be seen on Pressbooks Enterprise networks or self-hosted networks.

The Subscription page is where you can purchase, change or cancel the subscription for your book on Pressbooks.pub.

Organize

From the Organize menu, you have access to all of your parts and chapters. You can also set your global privacy at the top of the page, select which chapters to show in your web output, and select which chapters to show in your exports. Learn more about the Organize page.

Book Info

This section is where you set the details of your book, including title, author and language and other metadata. You can also create ‘contributors’ and give them credit for helping to create your book. Learn more about Book Info and Contributors.

Appearance

Appearance allows you to select a book theme and set theme options which control the output of your webbook and various export formats. You can also use the custom styles feature to provide custom CSS to control the display of your book. Learn more about your Appearance options.

Export

This section allows you to produce book exports in a wide variety of file formats and provides an interface for viewing and downloading previous versions of any export files you’ve created. Learn more about producing exports.

Import

This section allows you to import content into Pressbooks from a wide variety of file formats. Learn more about the Import options.

Publish

This section allows you to add information about where your books will be sold. Learn more about the Publish options.

Media

This is your media library, where you can upload images as a batch, and manage your images. You can also upload images directly when you are editing your chapters. Learn more about managing media in your book.

Users

This option allows you to view and edit the users who have access to your book, and control the permission levels given to each user. Learn more about managing book users.

Settings

These options allow you to configure settings for your book or various activated plugins. Learn more about various book-level settings.

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