The Instance Settings Drawer contains a lot of an instance's information and settings including ZUID, users, team, blueprint, and more.
Overview
The Instance Settings Drawer contains many of an instances general settings. Any user who has access to the instance has access to the Instance Settings Drawer. The following items can be accessed via this drawer:
Buttons to access Content Manager, preview and live links
Domain name and DNS instructions
General instance information:
Name
ZUID
Created on date
Updated on date
Legacy Hash and Numeric IDs
User Access
Team Access
Access Tokens
Blueprint Settings
Blueprint name
GitHub Link
Change blueprint button
Accessing the Instance Settings Drawer
Access the Instance Settings Drawer via the cog icon on an instance's card in the all-instance's grid view. Click the icon and a drawer will slide out from the right-hand side of the screen.
Access instance settings by clicking the cog icon on the instance card.
From the all-instances list view, simply select an instance from the list and the settings will be shown in the right-hand portion of the screen.
Access instance settings by selecting an instance from the list.
Instance Settings Drawer Tour
The full Instance Settings drawer is shown in full below.
Instance Settings Drawer.
We'll review each section with a short description below.
Buttons to access CMS, preview and live links
Access to the CMS, preview and live links.
From left to right there is a:
Button to access the Content Manger
Preview link
Live link
These links are also available from the instance card and instance list in the all-instances view.
Domain name and DNS instructions
Instance Settings Drawer general domain settings section.
The domain settings include a field to set your domain name, as well as brief DNS instructions.
General instance information:
Instance Settings Drawer general instance information section.
The general information from top to bottom and left to right is:
Instance Name
Created On date
Updated On date
Instance ZUID
Numeric ID (Legacy)
Hash ID (Legacy)
User Access
Instance Settings Drawer User Access section.
The User Access section allows users to be invited to access the instance. When a user is invited to access an instance their role is set as well.
Team Access
Instance Settings Drawer Team Access section.
The Team Access section allows for teams to be added to an instance.
Teams are not created in this section. Learn more about Team creation with this guide.
Access Tokens
Instance Settings Drawer Access Tokens section.
The Access Tokens section allow for access tokens to be created for use with the Atom IDE as well as other workflows.
Blueprint
Instance Settings Drawer Blueprint section.
The Blueprint section allows users to change their blueprint.
When a blueprint is changed a user will lose all of their content, code, etc. If you do not want to lose the contents of your instance do not change your blueprint.
It also shows the blueprint's name and cover image, and links to its repository on Github.