Hi Sina, <div dir="ltr">The doc we have is found at <a href="http://docs.openstack.org/folsom/openstack-compute/admin/content/about-the-dashboard.html#Launching_Instances_using_Dashboard">http://docs.openstack.org/folsom/openstack-compute/admin/content/about-the-dashboard.html#Launching_Instances_using_Dashboard</a>. The source is in <a href="http://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals/">http://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals/</a> if you'd like to pull it out into a true "user guide" -- a doc that has been on the wish list for a while now. </div>
<div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Agreed on the need for the details for users, though we also have discussed embedded help on the dashboard UI itself would be useful.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Your perspective of supporting Dashboard users would be valuable to lend to an expanded user doc. Feel free to write up notes, an outline, or filled in outline in any format and perhaps we can make it a priority.<span></span></div>
<div dir="ltr">Anne<br><br>On Monday, November 26, 2012, Sina Sadeghi  wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  

    
  
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    <font size="-1">Hi <font size="-1">list,<br>
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        <font size="-1">Is the<font size="-1">re a current user guide
            for the dashboard in existence or will I be writing my own
            tonight? <font size="-1">All I could find was a screencast
              <font size="-1">on vim<font size="-1">eo with someone from
                  Ra<font size="-1">ckspace demoing a rather old version
                    of the dashboard!<br>
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                    <font size="-1">To a<font size="-1"> user who hasn't
                        been exposed to cloud before, the model of<font size="-1">:<br>
                          <br>
                          <font size="-1">Login,<br>
                            <font size="-1">Create keypair<br>
                              <font size="-1">Modify security g<font size="-1">roup<br>
                                  <font size="-1">Launch VM with
                                    security g<font size="-1">roup and
                                      keypair specified<br>
                                      <br>
                                      <font size="-1"><font size="-1">is
                                          quite unfamiliar and gener<font size="-1">ally results in
                                            support requests such as "I
                                            can't ping <font size="-1">or
                                              ssh my instance<font size="-1">"<font size="-1">, "I can't
                                                  ssh into my instance
                                                  it says permission
                                                  denied<font size="-1">"<font size="-1">, "<font size="-1">I
                                                        don't know the
                                                        username for my
                                                        instance<font size="-1">".<br>
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