After you've signed in to Acrolinx, you land on a central site where you can easily manage the whole Acrolinx process.
Learn more about Acrolinx access in Sign In to Acrolinx.
Remember, depending on your privileges, you might not see all the options mentioned here. For instance, if you're only assigned to the role of managing terminology, you might not see the Analytics section.
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The menu options that you see depend on your privileges.
You'll find the following sections in the side menu:
From the home page, you can quickly get an overview of the options in Acrolinx and navigate to all areas of the product.
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Style guides (formerly Targets) |
Style guides make it easier for you to set up Acrolinx for your content. This section lets you Create and Edit Style Guides based on your audience or content type. Here you can align your style with your content needs. |
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Terminology |
Terminology is where you can get an overview of your terms. You can manage words and word groups that are important to your company. Before you start adding terminology, visit the articles Terminology Explained and the Terminology Quick Start. |
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Import and export terms |
Do you already have terminology that you'd like to add to Acrolinx? Import it in CSV, ACTIF, OLIF, or custom XML-based exchange formats, so Acrolinx can include them in a check. Learn more in Import Terms. If you need to download your terms visit Export Terms. |
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Reuse |
Reuse helps you maintain consistent authoring standards throughout your content. When Acrolinx checks your content with the Reuse category, it looks for similarities and suggests the replacements you've added here. Get started with our Reuse Quick Start |
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Guidance wizard |
The guidance wizard takes you through the process of fine-tuning your guidance. You can fine-tune how your guidelines work and add words to your terminology or spelling exception list. Get started with the Guidance Wizard Quick Start. |
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AI Assistant |
Create content directly in Acrolinx with the help of AI. Ask a question or enter a prompt to create content that aligns with your company style. Learn more in the AI Assistant Quick Start. |
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Term browser |
The term browser is a reference tool for anyone who needs quick access to terminology. The Term Browser provides the same search and filter tools that are visible in the Terminology section. |
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Translation browser |
The translation browser gives you a simplified set of search tools to quickly locate translations. Learn more in Translation Browser. |
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Contribute a term |
Use the Contribute a term option to quickly suggest terms. Read on in Contribute a Term. |
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Content Cube |
Track the quality of your web content. Content Cube aligns web analytics data with Acrolinx check results to help you track content quality. Use the insights that you get to tweak your style guides, improve under-performing content, and keep track of results. Learn more in Content Cube Quick Start. |
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Content Cube settings |
Set up web crawling for your website to start tracking content. Acrolinx automatically crawls added domains weekly. You can also import analytics data for content monitoring based on key metrics. |
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Analytics |
Acrolinx Analytics is a suite of dashboards that let you visualize and analyze your content progress and categories. With Analytics you can assess performance, pinpoint problems, and optimize your system. See trends over time, analyze your content groups, review the guidance for your writers, and check up on the health of your deployment. If needed you can retrieve results for specific documents from the archives. |
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Analytics settings |
Create content groups and set up custom fields for your Analytics. Learn more about custom fields in Create, Edit, and Delete Analytics Custom Fields. |
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Users |
In the Users section, you'll see administrative information about all Acrolinx users. Here you can view a user's assigned roles, track checking activity, and generate API tokens. Find out more Add, Find, and Remove Users. |
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Roles |
Assign roles to different users according to their relevant areas of expertise. You can use roles to group sets of privileges that are relevant to a particular task or set of tasks. Read on in Assign and Unassign Roles. |
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Privacy |
You can secure access to your organization's Scorecards or enable anonymous checking. Read on in Protect User Information. |
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License |
View information about your license or request a new one via email. Learn more in.License Types. |
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Troubleshooting |
Use our troubleshooting options if our Support team needs you to capture your server workload or create support packages. |
In the top-right corner of Acrolinx, you'll find a ribbon menu. There, you'll see your username, and right next to it you'll see the following tabs:
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Open-source licenses - Open the Acrolinx OSS license statement and get an overview of used licenses.
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Help - Get to our support page and documentation with a single click.
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Company notifications - Create notifications for your Acrolinx users. Learn more in Set Up Company Notifications.
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My settings |
In My Settings, you can change your password, update your display settings, edit your user information, and view your roles and privileges. |
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Sign out |
Always sign out when you're ready to leave Acrolinx. |