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Dashboard | Accessing the Dashboard! | 500 | Product | Dashboard |
Setup Your First Super Admin
Once you have started NocoDB, you can visit the dashboard via example.com
. You will be redirected to example.com/#/signup
.
Enter your work email and your password.
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/35857179/194793294-fa027496-c3c3-44eb-a613-2ba3e3bd26c1.png)
Initialize Your First Project
Once you have logged into NocoDB, you should see My Projects
.
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/35857179/194793424-c4451bf5-1486-46cf-b62f-86fc6d788d77.png)
To create a project, you can click New Project
. You can choose create an empty project or a project connecting to an external database.
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/35857179/194793457-e18e1112-2b44-4efc-8d98-5261a83a150c.png)
Creating Empty Project
Click Create Project
, you need to specify the project name. The data will be stored in NC_DB
. If it is not specified, a local SQLite will be created and used.
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/35857179/194793478-a4c20517-1c38-474d-8905-d1d3da560136.png)
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.
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/35857179/194793497-3b740bf2-ffc7-48bf-836e-e4cd26631568.png)
Currently it supports MySQL, Postgres, MSSQL and SQLite.
You can also configure associated SSL & advanced parameters.
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/35857179/189047293-05176c44-e162-495a-a7cd-e02377c1f42c.png)
{
"client": "pg",
"connection": {
"host": "<YOUR_HOST>",
"port": "5432",
"user": "<YOUR_DB_USER>",
"password": "<YOUR_DB_PASSWORD>",
"database": "<YOUR_DB_NAME>",
"ssl": {
"require": true,
"rejectUnauthorized": false,
"sslMode": "no-verify"
}
}
}
Tip: You can click Edit Connection JSON and specify the schema you want to use in "searchPath".
{
"client": "pg",
"connection": {
...
},
"searchPath": [ "<YOUR_TARGET_SCHEMA>" ]
}
Click Test Database Connection
to see if the connection can be established or not. NocoDB creates a new empty database with specified parameters if the database doesn't exist.
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/35857179/194793513-feabf14f-1f62-4896-b06d-88548251511a.png)