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Logging in to AmCAT brings you to the AmCAT home page. You can access and manage your AmCAT projects by clicking on 'Manage Projects'. Here all your AmCAT projects are stored. You can choose to list either your 'Active Projects', your 'Archived Projects' or 'All Projects' by clicking on these tabs (see Figure 3.1). AmCAT displays your active projects by default, listing all the AmCAT projects you are currently working on. This list is empty for a new user, but you can create a new AmCAT project.
To create a new AmCAT project you go to the AmCAT home page and click on 'Manage Projects'. In the upper left corner you find the button '+ Create Project'. Clicking on this button directs you to a form where you can create a new project (see Figure 3.2). Enter the name and the description of the project, mark the project either as active or not, and select the role of project guests. Click 'Save' to save your new AmCAT project.
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After saving your new AmCAT project, you are directed to your new project page. This page looks very similar to the project management page, but rather than your projects, this is the place where your project article sets are stored. Again, this list is empty for a new user, but you can create a new Article set.
Being the owner of this new AmCAT project, you can perform all management tasks and decide which other users you want to give permission to your project The owner is the person who ‘owns’ the project, meaning he or she can perform all management tasks on the project. The owner can later add other users to the project with various rights. The Guest Role is the role that a user has in the project if he or she is not added to the project. By setting this to ‘reader’ (the default), all AmCAT users on this system can see the project and all information in the project. ‘Metareader’ means that all users can see the project and all information except for the texts of the articles (this is useful for copyright reasons). Finally, by leaving the role blank, users that are not explicitly added to the project will not be able to access it at all. After pressing ’Save project details’, the project details screen is opened for the newly created project. This is the same screen that opens when you click on a project in the project list. On this screen, the project number is listed, as well as the details entered in the previous step. An important extra piece of information is ’index by default’. If this is enabled, which is the default behaviour, new articles will be automatically added to the full-text index. All these details can be changed using the Edit Details button.
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