A tour of Orkyo

Orkyo’s layout is a sidebar of main areas plus a top bar of cross-cutting tools. This page maps them; each area has its own documentation chapter for the details.

The main areas

The sidebar navigation lists the main areas, plus settings for those with the rights to see them. Spaces and People have pages built around what makes them distinctive — floorplans, teams and skills. Every other resource type, including the built-in Tools, gets an entry of its own in the same group:

Utilization — the home page and the scheduling board. A calendar, the drag-and-drop Spaces grid, and a timeline per resource type; drag requests into place and review how resources are used over time. See The Utilization board.
Spaces — manage spaces, floorplans and groups. Draw spaces onto an uploaded floorplan and describe their capabilities.
People — manage people, teams, and absences, including skills and working availability.
Tools, and your own resource types — every other type, built-in or defined in Settings → Resource Types, gets an entry here with its own icon and page. See Custom resource types.
Requests — capture and organize the work that needs scheduling, as a tree or a list. See Working with requests.
Insights — conflicts and utilization analytics: KPI cards plus trend charts over a period you choose.
Settings (editors and admins) — shared definitions: criteria, resource types, templates, presets, and scheduling.
Administration (tenant admins) — tenant governance: sites, users, organization, and integrations.

The top bar

Site selector — when your organization has several sites, Select site… scopes the boards to one of them.
Search (⌘K) — the global command palette. It indexes resources of every type — spaces, people, tools, and the types you defined yourself — plus requests, groups, sites, templates, and criteria. Each result is badged with what it is, and typing a resource type’s key (tool, car) brings up that whole class. Press Enter to open a result, Esc to close; results you have no rights to open are not listed.
Import / Export — context-aware: on a page with importable or exportable content, these buttons act on that page’s data (CSV/JSON, and a PDF export on the Utilization board).
Messages — platform announcements; a badge counts unread messages.
User menu — Account, Switch Organization, Messages, Take a tour, About, theme toggle, and sign-out. Administrators also see Site Admin.

Sorting and filtering lists

Every list in Orkyo — people, spaces, requests, and each settings page — shares the same column headers. Click one to open a small menu: sort the column, or filter it with a control that fits the data — checkboxes with counts for statuses and types, a contains-box for text, a from/to range for dates and numbers. A filtered column shows a marker on its header, and Clear filter in the menu removes it.

The view you build lives in the page’s address, so a filtered list can be bookmarked, shared, or revisited with the Back button. On phones, lists render as cards without column headers; a filtered link still applies, but changing filters is a desktop/tablet affordance for now.

The guided tour

Take a tour (user menu) opens a step-by-step walkthrough that navigates to each real page as it explains it: Criteria → Templates → Groups → Spaces → People → Requests → Conflicts → Utilization → Insights. It is the fastest way to see the setup path from Getting started in the product itself. Steps that need editor rights are skipped automatically for viewers.

Roles decide what you see

What appears in the sidebar depends on your role: Viewers have read-only access to view utilization and plans; Editors can create and modify utilization, requests, and spaces but cannot access settings; Admins have full access to all features including user management and settings.