A Tour of the Workstation

When you sign in, the platform root (/) loads the workstation: a full-screen 3D globe wrapped in the controls you use to read and shape the operational picture. This article names every region of that screen so the rest of the knowledge base can refer to them without re-explaining.

The layout is the same in every workbench; what changes is which tabs and panels appear. This tour describes the Conflict workbench — the default and richest. Health and Disaster trim the set down — see Choosing a Workbench.

How the regions relate. The globe is the canvas. The header holds global actions and live status. The activity rail (left edge) and the sidebar (right) are how you open and read panels. The Tools menu is the full index of everything else. The help panel is always one click away. You'll spend most of your time moving between the rail, the sidebar, and the globe.

The globe

The centre of the screen is a 3D globe. Events, intel, units, actors, and layers all render here as map features. You can pan, zoom, and tilt; the 2D / 3D toggle (in the Tools menu) flattens it to a planimetric map when you prefer. The current camera altitude is shown as a readout in the top bar.

The globe always reflects your current scope: with a battlespace focused, it shows only that situation; with none focused, it shows everything you have access to. If the map ever feels overwhelming, that's usually the cue to focus a battlespace.

The header (top bar)

A single strip across the top, read left to right.

Left

• ☰ — collapses and expands the right-hand sidebar.
• KRATAXIS logo.
• Live status — a dot that pulses green (LIVE) when the real-time feed is connected, grey (CONNECTING…) while reconnecting. Beside it are running counts of Events and active Layers — a quick gauge of how much is on the map.

Centre

• Workbench switcher — the coloured pill (⚔️ Conflict Tracking by default). Click to change operational domain.
• Location search — type a place name or coordinates and press Enter to fly there. Press / anywhere on the map to jump straight to this box.

Right (the action cluster)

• + Event — create an event by hand.
• Battlespace context — your focused battlespace (or 🗺 Battlespace when none is focused). Click to open the battlespaces manager. In Health this becomes the Outbreaks button.
• ⚡ Intel — open the Intel Fusion Engine panel. 📡 toggles the live intel feed dock.
• ⇢ Graph — open the Intel Causal Graph. 🎯 Queue — open the Analyst Review Queue.
• Alert buttons — Deception Flags, Watchlist, and Triage each carry a badge with their unread count, so time-sensitive items are noticeable at a glance. Beside them sit the Collaboration feed and Replay (historical playback).
• ⊞ Tools — opens the Tools menu (below).
• Status readouts — camera altitude, current threat level, and a live clock.

Far right

• 👤 user menu — your name, with links to My Profile, Preferences, and Sign out.

The activity rail (left edge)

A thin, always-visible icon column down the left side, grouped into three sections separated by rules:

1. Sidebar tabs — one icon per sidebar pane. In Conflict that's Events, Feeds, Layers, Annotate, Actors, AOI, Stats, Intel (Health adds Cases). Clicking one opens that pane in the sidebar.
2. Overlay panels — one-click access to floating panels: Battlespaces, Intel Fusion, Causal Graph, Triage, Analysis, SAT Workbench, Link Analysis, Analyst Queue, Coverage, Intel Products, and Escalation Signatures.
3. Utilities — pinned to the bottom.

The rail is the fastest way to move around; the same panels are also reachable from the header and the Tools menu.

The sidebar

The right-hand pane shows whichever tab you selected. Each tab has its own article — for example Events, Actors & Territory, and Feeds & Sources. Collapse the whole sidebar with ☰ to give the map more room.

The Tools menu

Clicking ⊞ Tools drops a menu of icon tiles in three sections:

• Map & Layers — News ticker, Layers tree, Timeline, 2D / 3D toggle.
• Intelligence — Analysis, Predict, Escalate, Confidence Matrix, Intel Products, Links, SAT, Graph, Queue, Coverage, Escalation Signatures.
• Systems — Infrastructure, Webhooks, and (for permitted users) Admin.

Think of the Tools menu as the full index of secondary panels — anything not pinned to the header or rail lives here.

The help panel

A floating ? button sits in the bottom-right corner of every screen. Click it to open the Knowledge Base slide-over: search the same articles you're reading now, browse by category, or jump to recently updated pages — all without leaving your work. Many panels pre-seed the search with a relevant query, so opening help often lands you on the right article immediately. Each article has an Open in new tab ↗ link to pop it out to the full /docs site.

Common first actions

Where to next

• Choosing a Workbench — what changes when you switch domains.
• Battlespaces — the container that organises everything you see on the map.