Navigating in OpenGoo

If you look at typical screen in OpenGoo, you will see basically the following four areas:

• Content area
• Tabs and toolbar
• Left sidebar (filtering: workspaces and tags)
• Right sidebar (help)

The content area is obviously the main area of the whole application. Here get access to the information stored in OpenGoo to read, edit, add or delete it. There are basically two different views within this area: a list view and a detail view.

• List views are tables of records, but sometimes they offer an alternative presentation of these records as well. For an example, take the screen called “Overview”: Here the information is grouped according to the group type, and events are even presented in a calendar.
• Detail views offer - hence the name - more details of one single record, and it gives you additional commands for editing a record.
• Edit views consist of forms that allow you to edit all details of a single record. They are usually divided in subsections that can be made visible or invisible according to your needs.

The tabs on top of the content area are the main navigation element in OpenGoo. Here you choose the information type you want to work with. The labels on these tabs give you a good impression of what type of information you have to expect.

There is a special tab called “Overview”. Think of it as the starting point or homepage of your OpenGoo installation. The overview offers you a selection of the most important, most urgent or most recent information. You can call it a dashboard, if you like.

Depending on the tab you select you often get a toolbar right below the tabs. Clicking on a tool either executes a certain command directly, or you get a dropdown menu to select one of several options.

The left sidebar offers two different methods for filtering the information presented in the content area: workspaces and tags. These two have been introduced before, so if you can't remember how the work, please re-read the according section on this page.

Selecting a workgroup or a tag is as simple as clicking on it. Please note that you can select only one single workgroup or tag at a time. To reset a filter simply click on “All” again.

You can use workgroups and tags simultaneously. Please keep in mind that these two filters will add up and narrow the results of your filtering process (like in search that uses two search terms connected whith a logical AND condition).

If you have a lot of workspaces or groups, you can even filter your filters by filling in the “Filter workspaces…” or “Filter tags…” field.

Please note that you can move the divider between the workgroups and the tags section to your needs. If you need more space on your screen, you can always hide the tags box or even the whole left sidebar by clicking on the arrow buttons.

To learn more about tags, please read “Working with Tags”.

The right sidebar will contain help texts in the future. Right now (OpenGoo version 0.9.1) it's still empty. So usually you want to hide it, using the arrow button.