Contents¶
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- What is this manual?
- Release information
- Legal information
- Authors and Contributors
- Original CATS/Cognizo developers and contributors listed
- OpenCATS Developers and contributors
- Introduction and Overview
- What is an Applicant tracking system (ATS)?
- How is it free and what is Open Source software?
- OpenCATS vs CATSOne vs “open source”
- What can OpenCATS be used for?
- How does OpenCATS compare to other free software and paid Applicant Tracking Systems?
- OpenCATS General Features
- Windows-OpenCATS Installation instructions
- Windows Prerequisites
- Downloading software and preparing your system
- Start Xampp
- Moving your OpenCATS Applicant Tracking System directory
- Optional-Renaming your OpenCATS default directory
- Launch PhPMyAdmin
- Set up OpenCATS
- Install on Shared-hosting (Bluehost, GoDaddy or similar)
- Download OpenCATS to your computer
- CPanel-File Manager
- CPanel-PHP
- CPanel-MySQL
- Install the OpenCATS software
- Install on MacOS
- OSX Prerequisites
- Downloading software and preparing your system
- Configure and start MAMP
- Create database
- Moving your OpenCATS Applicant Tracking System directory
- OPTIONAL - Renaming your OpenCATS directory
- Set up OpenCATS
- Install Scripts, Ubuntu Linux
- Get the correct script for your distribution
- Install the OpenCATS software
- Screens in-depth
- OpenCATS Dashboard/Home screen
- Activities screen
- Job Orders screen
- Candidates screen
- Companies screen
- Contacts screen
- Lists screen
- Calendar screen
- Reports screen
- Settings screen
- Using OpenCATS-The building blocks
- The modules
- Add a new company
- Add a new contact
- Add a new job order
- Adding a candidate and attaching to the job order pipeline
- OpenCATS Backup/Restore and Upgrade Instructions-THIS SECTION INCOMPLETE!
- Backup/Restore best practices and things to consider
- About this documentation/different environments
- Pros and Cons: GUI vs. Non-GUI
- GUI (Graphical, point and click)
- Non-GUI
- Testing your backups/Setting up a test environment to reuse
- Changing your user passwords in phpmyadmin
Short overview of original OpenCATS Source code
F.A.Q. for OpenCATS applicant tracking system
The remaining items need to be done
- Using OpenCATS
- Overview
- Handling customers
- Handling talent
- Reporting and exporting data
- Configuring and administering OpenCATS
- Managing users
- Email and templates
- Calendars
- Backing up and restoring the OpenCATS database
- Special tables
- Customizing OpenCATS
- Branding
- Localization
- Using extensions
- Creating extensions
- Further reading
- Academic stuff
- The user/developer community