# Control Rooms

## A Fresh Control Room

You've signed in, seen the Launchpad and ready to start exploring Control Rooms.

Let's go ahead and create a brand new Control Room to see how it looks.

Simply:

1. Go your launchpad. You can learn more about launchpads [here](/fundamentals/launchpad.md)
2. Create Control Room.
3. Give it a name,
4. Create Control Room.

And here's what you get, a brand new Control Room:

![New Control Room](/files/igOHCMLWDxGHMLYELxhH)

Let's dig in and see what's inside:

#### Header Navigation

1. **Name of your Control Room**: Clicking this will take you back to your main screen.
2. **Sky Ledge Shortcuts**: Shortcuts to go back to your Launchpad, Manage Users or Update Control Room settings.
3. **Profile**: Access your profile information, update billing information or simply sign out.

#### Side Navigation

1. **Control Room**: View your live event stream and take action.
2. **People & Assets**: Explore assets linked to your Control Room.
3. **Places**: Create and manage places and geofences relevant to this Control Room.
4. **Reports**: Access reports about information in your Control Room.
5. **Invite Users**: Invite others to the Control Room.
6. **Collapse Sidebar**: Tuck the navigation panel to the side, you can always expand this navigation menu once it's been collapsed.
7. **Learn more**: Learn about viewing and managing Control Rooms. This will bring you to this page.

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## Populated Control Rooms

Once events begin flowing into your Control Room, it will look something like this. Everything remains the same, but we've got a few extra capabilities:

![Event Stream displayed in populated control room](/files/AIU9zypSdCLlyNdPeUBs)

#### The Event Stream

1. **An event**: The simplest building block of a Control Room. Events contain information, insights and actions. At minimum, events have a signifiance level (the coloured dot) as well as a title and description.
2. **An expanded Event**: You can expand an event by clicking it. This will provide additional information about an event as well as actions you can take.
3. **Event Actions**: Actions let you respond to an event
4. **Collapse**: Easily restore an expanded event to its simple view by clicking the collapse bar.
5. **Zoom Controls**: Zoom in or out!
6. **View All**: Sometimes you want to get a sense of where all events are. Simply click this button to fit all events on the map.

Great, you should now be comfortable navigating a Control Room. Time to look at [Assets](/fundamentals/assets.md).


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