Welcome to the EspressDashboard Quick Start Guide. This guide is the recommended starting point for users who are new to EDAB and would like to get up to speed fairly quickly. This guide can also help users to quickly evaluate the product capabilities.
This guide provides step-by-step tutorials for basic administration features, report and chart creation, and publishing features. Only a small portion of the features are described in this guide, so for more information and detail, please reference the other sections in the User's Guide.
The QuickStart assumes that you are working with EDAB in default configuration. This means a clean installation using the Tomcat server that comes with EDAB and running connected to the default HSQL database. For more information about installation options, please see Section 1.3.1 - Installing EDAB. The information and exercises in this guide can be used in other configurations; however, references to certain options and file paths may not be applicable.
For more information about EDAB components and architecture, see Section 1.1.1 - EDAB Components.