As the project continues to evolve more and more people are trying to use it. This guide wants to help you understand how to use the software. It describes the user interface in detail and also tries to point out upcoming changes and improvements (marked in blue color).

The ZoneMaster user interface is web based and should work with all standard web browsers. A few JavaScript statements are used, for example to pop up a window asking for confirmation before deleting an entry. So please allow the execution of JavaScript.

You can navigate in the user interface as you are used to do on other web pages. To follow a link click at the underlined text and to start an operation click at the associated button. Of course you can use the back- and forward-buttons of your browser, but you should keep in mind that you might get a cached result and a manual reload might be necessary.

If you start ZoneMaster, a list of zones will be presented. This list is called the ZoneListView. You can see all zones and the primary DNS server associated with them.

Navigation in large lists is possible through the navigation buttons at the top. If the list is longer than one page these buttons will appear. You can use the backward and foreward buttons to move one page in either direction. The fast forward and fast backward buttons can be used to move ten pages in either direction and the forward to the end and the backward to the beginning buttons can be used to move to the last and to the first page available.

You can also use the page index at the bottom of this view to navigate to a certain page number directly. To save space on the screen only 10 page numbers before and after the current page number a shown.

To narrow the number of zones in the list you can use the keyword field in the page footer. The keyword entered here is used to search all zones containing this word at any position and case-independent. The result will be shown in a new list in which you can navigate as described above too.

You can delete a zone by clicking at the delete button in the same row as the zone name. A popup window will as for your confirmation. If you do not confirm nothing will happen. If you confirm the delete operation the zone and all data that belongs to it will be marked for deleting. The actual delete will be processed in the next jobhandler iteration. You can see a zone being in process of deleting in the list until it finally is deleted.

To view the details of a zone please click at the view button. You will be shown a new page called the ZoneView for the associated zone. It contains the details of the zone as you normally would configure in a zone file. The data is grouped by labels. This means that all data that belngs to the label www is shown in one table row. The labels are sorted in alphabetical order with the empty label first. This label represents the zone itself and is equivalent to @-label used in textual zone representation.