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Getting around Omaya
This page is about finding your way once you are signed in: the side rail, the page list it opens, search, and the controls along the top. It describes the Omaya look that every organisation uses from October 2026.
The side rail
The dark rail down the left-hand side is the whole platform, one icon per section: Dashboard, Monitor, OAIA, Reports, Entity, Device, Space, Apps, Rules and the rest further down. What you see depends on your role and on which apps your organisation has, so two colleagues can have different rails. The menu is not the same for everyone explains why.
The section you are in is lit, with a violet edge beside it.
Opening a page
- Click a section on the rail, for example Reports.
- Its page list opens beside the rail, over the page you are on. Long sections are grouped; click a group's heading to fold it or open it again.
- To narrow a long list, type into Filter reports (the box at the top of the list says the section's name) — only the pages whose name contains what you typed stay.
- Click the page you want.
The list closes as soon as you pick a page. Clicking anywhere outside it, or pressing Esc, closes it without going anywhere. The page underneath never moves or changes width while the list is open.
Check it worked: the page you chose is highlighted in violet the next time you open that section's list.
All your reports on one page
The Reports section has more pages than any other. At the top of its list, All reports → opens the Reports page, where every report you may open is a card with a line on what it answers:
- Search reports finds a report by name or by what it is about.
- The chips under the search box show one group at a time (All shows every report).
- Pin on a card keeps it in Pinned at the top; Recently opened lists the last reports you looked at.
Pins and the recent list belong to your browser: another computer, or a colleague, has their own.
Pages that open each other
What a page names — a person, a device, a gateway, a zone, a floor, a rule, a day — is usually a link to the page about it, already set to that thing. You should rarely need to go back to the menu and search again:
| On | Click | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| A report's person or asset | the name | Entity Tracker on them, or Attendance / Asset Utilisation with their card open |
| A device anywhere | the name | Live Monitor on it, or the device on the Sensor page |
| A device's panel | the links under its name | the person carrying it, Live Monitor, Sensor Trail, Battery, Sensor Status, Alerts, and Button presses or Distance where it has them |
| A zone, floor, location or gateway panel | the links under its name | Right Now, Space Utilisation, Room Usage, Heatmap, Environment, Gateway Availability, Sensor Status or Battery, set to it |
| An outage on the Gateways page | the outage | the gateways involved, then Gateway Availability on that day |
| A rule | Its alerts | Central Alerts showing only that rule's triggers |
| The Activity Log | a person's name, or the link after an entry | only that person's activity, or the device, zone, rule or incident the entry is about |
The page you land on keeps the choice in its address, so you can bookmark it or send it to a colleague and it opens the same way for them (they see only what their own role allows).
Lists you can shape
On the Sensor and Gateway pages, Columns on the right of the list's toolbar shows a tick beside each column that is showing; click one to hide or show it. The Sensor page remembers a separate choice for each of its tabs. Your choice belongs to this browser.
Along the top
| What you see | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Search [CTRL + K] | Find a page, a device, a gateway, a person or asset, a zone, a venue or a location by name, from anywhere. Type two letters or more. Press Ctrl + K (⌘ K on a Mac) to open it without the mouse. |
| Your organisation's name with your role beside it | Which organisation you are working in, and your role in it. If you can look after more than one organisation, it is the one whose data every page is showing. |
| Language | Switches the console's language. |
| Sun / moon | Light, Dark or Zero (a true-black theme). Your choice stays on this browser. |
| Bell | Notifications for you. |
| Your picture | The account menu: your profile, Change Password, Logout, and the look switch. |
Confirming an action
When Omaya needs you to confirm something, answer a question or read a message, a box opens over the page. The page behind it stays as it was.
| You see | What it means |
|---|---|
| A purple ? and a purple button | An ordinary question. The button names what will happen, such as Send or Turn off. |
| An orange triangle | It can be undone, but check first. |
| A red bin and a red button | It deletes or removes something, or cannot be undone. The box opens with Cancel selected. |
| A green tick | Something was done. |
| A red circle | Something went wrong. The box says what, and what to try. |
| A link and Copy | A link for you to copy, such as a door-display or sign-in link. Copy puts it on your clipboard and the box closes. |
Hold to confirm. A red button only works when you press and hold it for a moment: a bar fills along the bottom of the button, and the action happens when it is full. A quick click shows Hold to confirm (or Hold to delete) and does nothing. On a phone, keep your finger on the button. With a keyboard, press Tab to reach the button and hold Enter.
Questions with an answer. Some boxes ask for a reason, a name or a choice from a list. If the answer is required, OK with the field empty shows This field is required. under it, and the box stays open.
Changing your mind. Cancel, Esc, or a click outside a question closes it and nothing happens. A message closes with OK or Esc. A box opened from inside a panel or another box closes on its own: the panel stays open behind it.
On a phone or tablet
Below laptop width there is no rail. Tap the ☰ button at the top left and the same sections slide in from the left; tap a section to see its pages and tap one to open it. Everything else — the pages, colours, light and dark — is the same as on a computer, and wide tables scroll sideways inside their card rather than pushing the page off the screen.
Motion
Pages open with a short fade as their cards come in, numbers count up to their value, and lists that refresh on their own (Right Now, Entity Tracker) slide changed items into place instead of jumping. If your computer or phone is set to reduce motion, Omaya shows everything at once instead.