This section will give an overview of getting started with Camms.Meeting and the overall features of the navigation, login process, user profile, and home screen.

2.1 Top Navigation Menu 

The top navigation can be accessed by clicking on the navigation hamburger icon at the top right-hand side of the screen. The menu options will vary based on the user roles. Given below in figure 01 is the complete accessible menu, only to the system administrator. This depicts all menu options.

2.1.1 My Workspace

• My Agenda Items – allows creation, submission, Copy/move and delete.

• My Approvals – allows approval of agenda items, meeting minutes assigned to self for review.

• My Actions – allows update of own Actions.

2.1.2 Meetings

• Meeting Centre – allows search, view, edit of all meetings. 

• Agenda item search – allows search, creation, submission, Copy/move and delete of agenda item. 

2.1.3 Committees

• Committees – allows search and view for committee records.

• Teams – allows search and view for teams.

• Member List – allows search and view for any elected member records.

2.1.4 Action

• Action Centre: allows search, view, edit of all actions.

  • Meeting Type (i.e. Formal Public, Formal Internal and Informal) 

  • Report Title 

  • Action Title 

  • Meeting Title 

  • Start 

  • End

  • Action Owner 

  • Secondary Action Owner 

  • Status 

  • % Complete

  • General Manager 

  • Corporate Manager

2.1.5 Administration (only accessible by Administrators)

• Set up

• Manage Users

• Teams

• Committees

• Locations

• Legislations

• Report Templates

• Agenda Templates

• Email Notification

• Retrieve Deletion

Quick Links Panel placed on left hand side of the screen would provide you quick access to each phase within the meeting process workflow.

Quick Link Icon	Description
Image Modified	Create New Meeting – Used to create a new meeting.
Image Modified	Meeting Preparation – Prepare and finalise the meeting agenda.
Image Modified	Join Meeting – Conduct meetings that you have organised or join a meeting that you are requested to participate.
Image Modified	Meeting Minutes – Edit meeting minutes prior to finalising and distributing the minutes among participants.
Image Modified	Follow-up Actions – Monitor/ update actions that was derived from meetings.

Following common icons would be available in the page header:

Many areas of the meeting portal are available for public (unregistered) access. However, it is recommended that staff assigned with user accounts remain logged into the system to ensure that all relevant functionality is available.

The following steps to be followed to sign in to the system:

• STEP 1: Open a web browser, type the URL in the address bar and hit enter. Save the URL link in favorites for faster access.

• STEP 2: Click the Sign In button in the top right-hand corner. A pop-up window will appear as shown in the figure below.

• STEP 3: Enter the Username and password provided by the system admin and click Sign in. If the wrong username or password is entered an error message will display as 'The Username and password is incorrect'.

• STEP 4: Click the Remember me tick box. This will save the username for future logins. 

If the password is forgotten, the user can click on Forgot password. This will redirect the user to enter the email address to receive a link to reset the password.

The Administrator can also reset a user password upon request. Refer topic ‘Manage users’ (Section 4.2) for more information.

Each user will have his/her personal profile. The user can edit the user profile information by following the steps given below.

• STEP 1: Click on the profile pic icon in the header as shown in the figure below. 

• STEP 2: Click on the Profile Button in the profile window. Then the User profile page will load.

• STEP 3: The user profile page has three sections (User profile, My setting, Change Passwords). Click on the User profile tab as shown in the figure below, to update personal information. Click Save.

• STEP 4: Click on My setting tab to update settings such as Time zone, Out of office etc. Click Save.

• STEP 5: Click on Change password Tab to update password. Click Save. Password has to be minimum of six characters.

The commonly used are listed below:

The homepage displays a list view and a calendar view of all upcoming meetings as shown in the figure below. Each user will have a different view of the meetings.

The homepage comprises the following components:

• Upcoming meetings list  – Formal public meetings are viewable by all. The Formal internal and informal meetings will show only to the participants who are eligible to join those meetings. Users can join the meeting, if the join meeting button is made visible.

Image Modified	– Join Meeting

• Meeting Schedule – This view is available in day, week, month and list view. 

• Meeting Summary – The meeting summary will be displayed in the left side panel, Click on the meeting title from the calendar and the summary will show. The following actions can be performed.

Action Icon	Description
Image Modified	Add this meeting to your calendar. This will get added to your default email client.
Image Modified	Downloads – Can download the Agenda draft or finalised, Minutes Draft of finalised excluding confidential items. IF the user is a global confidential user or has been assigned confidential rights, the reports will include the confidential items.
Image Modified	Preview Outputs – Can preview the Agenda draft or finalised, Minutes Draft of finalised excluding confidential items. IF the user is a global confidential user or has been assigned confidential rights, the reports will include the confidential items.

• Print Quick link.

To exit the system, the following steps, have to be followed.

• STEP 1: Click the User Profile on the header.

• STEP 2: Click on the Sign out button.