Sidebar
The sidebar lists the places you can go. The row for the page you are on is highlighted. The first rows have no heading. Each one gathers work from across the rescue, and shows you only the parts your role can read.
Under Workspaces is one row for each area of the rescue’s work. You see a row only if your role can read that workspace.
Under Administration is Settings. It shows only for a role that can manage at least one workspace, such as Organization admin. See Settings.
Pages without a sidebar row
Many pages belong to a workspace but have no row of their own, so the sidebar stays short. Search finds each of them by name, if your role can open it:- In Animals: Applications, Adoptions, Reconciliation, Reports, Transports, Transfers, Foster homes, Medical due, Intakes, Contract templates, Housing and Locations.
- In Organizations: Our organization.
- In Communications: Inboxes and Sending.
- In Fundraising: Donors and Wish list.
- In Shifts: Schedules, Sign up, Cancellation requests, Roster and Volunteers.
- In Settings: Activity, Forms, Workflows, Record layouts, Cage cards, Payments, Settings history and Webhooks.
On a phone or small screen
The sidebar folds away. Press the menu button at the left of the header to open it. It closes when you choose a page, when you tap outside it, or when you press Escape.What a volunteer sees
A person whose only role is a volunteer’s gets a sidebar of their own, with three rows:
A volunteer lands on My shifts when they sign in, and search offers them only these three pages. Someone who is a volunteer and also holds a staff role gets the full sidebar instead.
Search
Search jumps to a page, a person or an animal by typing part of its name. Open it by pressing Ctrl K (on a Mac, ⌘ K), or by pressing Search in the header. On a small screen, Search is a magnifying glass. Press Ctrl K again, or Escape, to close it. The box reads “Jump to a page, or search people and animals…”. As you type, results appear in groups:
People and animals are searched once you have typed two characters. Until then the palette says Type 2 characters to search records. People appear only if your role can read People, and animals only if it can read Animals.
Use the up and down arrow keys to move through the results and Enter to open one, or click it.
Breadcrumbs
The line above each page shows where you are, starting from Home: for example, Home / Animals / Biscuit. Every part except the last is a link, so you can step back up. Home takes you to the page you land on when you sign in. On a record, the last part is the record’s name. It can show the record’s ID for a moment while the page loads.The header
The header runs across the top of every page. From left to right:- Your rescue’s name and logo, and the plan your rescue is on.
- Search (see Search).
- On a wide screen, the roles you hold.
- The theme button, the notifications bell, Feedback, the What’s new button, Help, My account and Log out. Help opens this documentation at the page for the screen you are on, in a new tab.
Theme
The theme button switches how RescueConsole looks. Each press moves to the next of Match the device, Light and Dark. Your choice follows you to other browsers and devices when you sign in there. You can also choose it under Appearance on My account (see Your account).My account and Log out
My account opens your own profile, password and preferences. See Your account. Log out signs you out on this browser. Other browsers where you are signed in stay signed in.Notifications
The bell in the header shows what you have been told: when somebody assigns you a submission, an application or a task; when a partner rescue invites you or offers you an animal; and when another rescue asks for your review of a registry flag. A number on the bell counts the ones you have not opened yet, and the list checks for new ones every minute while RescueConsole is open. Press the bell to see your most recent 20. Unread ones are in bold. Click one to go to the record it is about; that marks it read. Mark all read clears the count without opening anything. On My account, under Being told about assignments, you choose how you hear about them: In the app and by email, In the app only, or Not at all. The default is In the app and by email.Changes to RescueConsole
The What’s new button, with a sparkle icon, shows what has changed in RescueConsole lately. A dot on it means there is something you have not opened yet. Press it to see the five most recent days with changes, each with a short summary and its lines grouped under their headings. Everything opens the full list of changes. Opening the panel clears the dot for you on every device, not for anyone else using the same computer.Feedback
Feedback in the header is how you tell RescueConsole’s team what you need, what went wrong, or anything else. Everyone who can sign in has it.What people have asked for
Pressing Feedback first opens What people have asked for: a list of requests from rescues, so you can back one instead of writing it again. Each item shows its title, a short summary, how many votes it has and how many rescues are behind it. No names are shown. Press the vote button beside an item to add your vote. Press it again to take your vote back. An item may also say what has been decided about it:
An item that is built, decided against, not planned or already asked for takes no new votes, though you can still take back a vote you gave it.
Tell us something
If your request is not on the list, press Tell us something (or Say something else below the list).
Press Send. The address of the page you were on goes with it, so you do not need to say where you were.
What you send is read by RescueConsole’s team. It appears on the list only if they give it a title and publish it. Other rescues see only that title and a summary the team writes, never your message or your name.