The homepage of the toolbox is organised in different areas:

• The top area (banner) is dedicated to the organisation of the various operational interfaces that will be available depending on the user (End User of National Focal Point); these interfaces will be explained later in the guide. In particular, Figure 3-3 shown the National Focal Point version of the toolbox.
• The bottom left part (mainpage) is dedicated to the description of the ERS initiative
• The bottom right part (gallery) is dedicated to the maps gallery showing examples of ERS products that can be evaluated by the users for reference with respect to their use of ERS.

Figure 3‑3: homepage of the linkER toolbox web interface. By clicking on the grey buttons, the different operational interfaces are activated. The black button on the top right of the homepage is dedicated to the login of users.

In particular, from the homepage it is possible to access to the various operational interfaces of the toolbox by clicking on the grey buttons represented above (Request Product, Manage Orders etc.).

In order to use any functionalities of the linker toolbox, the user has to sign in the portal using the top right black button.

Figure 3‑4: Sign in into the portal, the user id is normally the personal email address. The login page is loaded by clicking on “Sign in” button.

In this “Getting started guide” it will be shown how to search for a product and view a product in the Web-GIS interface. These functionalities are common to all user profiles.

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