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CMS Manual

Connecting to CQ

Screen shot of the main page in CQ
The CQ 5 Welcome Page

After CQ has been started, you connect using your web browser.

  1. To connect to CQ, navigate to your CQ instance using the URL supplied to you; for example http://training.libraries.psu.edu. (Training environment) or
    http://author.libraries.psu.edu (Production environment)
  2. Click on the link for CMS Author.
  3. Enter your user name and password to log in and click OK.
    Note that, in the Training environment, your userid should be used for both, while the Production environment requires your usual PSU WebAccess userid and password.
  4. By default, CQ opens the welcome page.
  5. Navigate to the appropriate window (see The CQ GUI) and start working in CQ.

Note: Please use Firefox 12 or Above or Internet Explorer 9 when authoring in the CMS.  Google Chrome and other Browsers are NOT supported.

 

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