Application Guide

Click an application tile on the dashboard and the map opens. This is where the work happens: looking at layers, finding records, editing them, measuring, printing and exporting.

This page is the lay of the land. Everything on it is covered properly somewhere else, and the links say where.

Four panels round a map

The map is the middle. Everything else opens, closes and resizes around it.

Where	What it is	Read about it
Left	Search for an address, a place or a record, and jump to it.	Search
Top	The attribute table for the active layer.	Data Table
Middle	The map, its toolbar and its readouts.	Map Navigation, Map Tools
Right	Your workspace, its layers, your bookmarks and your georeferenced images.	Workspaces, Layer Control

The active layer ties it together

One layer at a time is the active layer, chosen on the right. The table across the top shows that layer's records, the editing tools work on it, and clicking the map puts its record first. Change the active layer and the whole screen follows. See Layer Control.

The tabs on either side

One panel, several tabs

The panel on the right has three tabs:

Tab	What it holds
Workspaces & Layers	The workspace you are in and the layers it holds.
Bookmarks	Views you have saved so you can come straight back. See Bookmarks.
Georeferenced Images	Scanned plans and diagrams placed on the map. See Georeferenced Images.

Tabs you do not recognise

Modules built for your organisation add their own tabs to these same rows, and their own buttons to the map toolbar. They are not part of this guide: look for their own pages in the menu, or ask whoever set the system up for you.

Making room

Collapse it, drag it wider, or float it free

To do this	Use this
Get a panel out of the way	The caret in its header. It folds down to a narrow strip that still shows its name; click the strip to bring it back.
Give a panel more room	Drag the bar between two panels.
Float a panel	The diagonal arrow in its header lifts it out into a window you can move and resize. Available on the Data Table and on each of the right-hand tabs, on a wide screen.

On a phone

The panels move onto the map as buttons

The panels do not disappear on a small screen, they move onto the map:

• the magnifier opens the search panel;
• the grid opens the data table;
• the layers stack, bottom right, opens the workspaces and layers panel.

What you do not get on a phone is the toolbar above the map, the Lat/Lon readout, and undocking. Long-press takes the place of right-click, and gives you the same menus.

A first session

From signing in to something worth keeping

1. Sign in and land on the dashboard.
2. Open an application from a tile.
3. Pick a workspace, or start from Default. See Workspaces.
4. Add the layers you need from the Layer Repository.
5. Click a feature on the map and read its record. See Feature Selection.
6. Save the workspace so it is there tomorrow.

Step six is the one people forget

Adding layers, hiding them, reordering them and setting their opacity all change the workspace, and none of it is written down until you press Save. Sign out without saving and you get the workspace back exactly as it was. See Saving changes.

Stuck?

Every panel has a ? button in its header. It starts an interactive tour that walks you round that panel, one control at a time. There is one for the map panel too, at the end of the toolbar. See Support.

Everything in this guide

Page	What you'll learn
Workspaces	Creating, switching, saving and managing workspaces
Layer Repository	Adding and removing layers, and connecting to external services
Layer Control	Visibility, labels, opacity, the active layer and drawing order
Map Navigation	Panning, zooming, rotating, and the readouts under the map
Map Tools	Measuring, the magnifier, elevation, recording, street view
Searching	Finding addresses, places and records
Feature Selection	Clicking the map, and the popup that comes back
Printing Maps	Composing and printing or saving a map page
Reports	Running, creating and downloading reports
Data Table	Searching, sorting and managing attribute data
Column Filters	Narrowing a table down to the records you want
Import Layers	Bringing your own data in
Export Layers	Downloading layer data in GIS and spreadsheet formats
Background Jobs	Watching imports, exports and reports run
Editing Records	Inline editing, record dialogs and drawing on the map
Attachments	Uploading, viewing and managing files on a record
Georeferenced Images	Placing scanned plans and diagrams onto the map
Bookmarks	Saving and restoring map views
Keyboard Shortcuts	The full list of shortcuts