User Interface

The SyncPlanet user interface is designed to be intuitive and easy to navigate. Here you will find a breakdown of its main features.

Navigation

You can navigate through the different pages in SyncPlanet using the navigation bar or by clicking on an element name in the channel explorer.

Navigation Bar

You can easily navigate between different elements in SyncPlanet using the navigation bar:

The bar lets you navigate between the elements using a clickable hierarchy-like path: hub storage channel

hub/
├── storage1/
│    ├── chan
│    ├── chan
│    └── chan
├── storage2/
│    ├── chan
│    ├── chan
│    └── chan
└── storage3/
     ├── chan
     ├── chan
     └── chan

The right side of the navigation bar is composed of an icon showing the element type, a contextual help icon, and a toggle in cases of channels and storage units.

Tabs

Each page contains a series of tabs. The number and types vary from elements (hubs, storage units, teams, channels). Simply click on a tab to open it.

Icons

Many icons in SyncPlanet contains functions or are used to highlight important information.

Interactive icons

Clickable elements such as links and buttons have their icons and texts coloured in light blue . These icons are fully interactive:

• Contextual help. Click on these icons to display a short explanation about its element and a link to the relevant documentation (when applicable).
• A toggle to enable or disable the channel or storage unit. When toggled on (), the element will be read by the synchronisation when it comes to its turn on the process loop. When toggled off (), the element will not be read and will be skipped when the processing agent reaches its turn in the sequence. Toggling off a in-progress element won't kill the ongoing synchronisation process, it waits until the rsync process finishes, and won´t start it until it is switched on again.

Information only

These icons highlight important information:

• This icon shows that the element is a hub.
• This icon shows that the element is a storage unit.
• This icon shows that the element is a channel.
• and Channels only These indicate the activity and the direction of the channel. A up arrow means that the storage is sending to the hub (upload), a down arrow means the storage is receiving (download). A blinking arrow means that the channel synchronisation is in progress.

Demo

If you're unsure about the different tools and navigational options, you can try them out yourself with our freely accessible demo.

Next

Further reading :

• Learn how to start setting up SyncPlanet with our hub tutorial
• Find out more about our terminology in the glossary