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Once you have started NocoDB, you can visit the dashboard via `example.com/dashboard` .
Click `Let's Begin` button to sign up.
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Enter your work email and your password.
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Your password has at least 8 letters with one uppercase, one number and one special letter
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## Initialize Your First Project
Once you have logged into NocoDB, you should see `My Projects` .
To create a project, you can click `New Project` .
< img src = "https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/86527202/144373314-9146e855-0791-4815-a03f-303e5ffb2a63.png" width = "60%" / >
### Creating Empty Project
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A local SQLite will be used.
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### Connecting to External Database
Click `Create By Connecting To An External Database` , you need to specify the project name, API type, and other database parameters.
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Tip 1: If you are running NocoDB on Docker and your local DB is running on your host machine, your Host Address would be host.docker.internal instead of localhost.
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Currently it supports MySQL, Postgres, MSSQL and SQLite.
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You can also configure associated SSL & advanced parameters.
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Tip 1 : You can click Edit Connection JSON and modify SSL settings in "ssl".
Tip 2 : You can click Edit Connection JSON and modify SSL settings in "ssl".
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```json
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```
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Tip 2 : You can click Edit Connection JSON and specify the schema you want to use in "searchPath".
Tip 3 : You can click Edit Connection JSON and specify the schema you want to use in "searchPath".
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```json
@ -97,7 +98,9 @@ Tip 2: You can click Edit Connection JSON and specify the schema you want to use
Click `Test Database Connection` to see if the connection can be established or not. NocoDB create's a new **empty database** with specified parameters, if the database doesn't exist.
### Creating Project from Excel
<!-- ### Creating Project from Excel
Click `Create Project from Excel` , you can either upload / drag and drop Excel file (OR) specify Excel file URL.
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- Xlsm
- Ods
- Ots
-->
Wing-Kam Wong
3 years ago