Control Rooms

Defining the Control Room and its functionality

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

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

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

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.