The application window
The application window has two full-width bands above a sidebar and a content area. This page names every part of it.
The top bar holds, left to right: the sidebar toggle, the Radd brand, the query slot, the inbox bell, and your avatar. The query slot shows a page's own query bar when it has one. Otherwise it shows a search pill that opens the command palette.
The pins bar sits below the top bar. It always starts with My Work, then your pinned tabs, then the New item button at the right edge.
New item creates a work item from any page. If you are in a project, or you can create in only one project, it creates there directly. Otherwise it lists every project you can create in, so you choose. The button appears only when you can create in at least one project.
The sidebar lists, top to bottom: a Search row, Inbox with its unread count, and My Work. Below them, Radd shows Submission Portal, Projects, Reports, and Timesheet only when they apply to you. Each page still checks your permission on its own, so hiding a link here is a convenience, not the only guard.
Below them come sections you can fold:
- Views — all-projects saved views.
- Dashboards — the composable report dashboards.
- Queues — appears only when a queue view exists.
- Pages — wiki spaces.
- Cycles — cycles that are not complete. See Settings → Cycles for the rest.
- Projects — every project you belong to.
Radd shows most of these sections only when they hold something, or when you can create in them.
Click the chevron beside a project to show its views. The project also links to its Reports page, its Settings (if you manage it), and New view. Radd folds every project by default. The project of the page you are on opens automatically, unless you folded it yourself.
Click the panel icon at the left of the top bar to collapse the sidebar to a narrow rail of icons. The rail keeps Search, Inbox, and your main destinations. It drops the named sections, because a name does not fit a 20-pixel icon. Click the icon again to expand the sidebar.
Your browser saves this preference. It does not follow you to another browser or computer.
Right-click any link in the sidebar to pin it to the pins bar, or to unpin it if it is already pinned. Every sidebar link supports this except My Work, whose tab is permanent.
A pinned view resolves live: its tab always shows the view's current name.
If two pinned views share a name, Radd adds the project key to both tabs,
for example RADD · Board. A pinned link, such as a project page or the
timesheet, keeps the text and the address you pinned.
If the owner deletes a pinned view, or stops sharing it with you, its tab disappears. The pin itself stays in your preferences, so the tab returns if the view comes back.
Right-click a tab on the pins bar for two more actions:
- Rename tab… — set your own label for the tab. Leave the field empty to show the original name again.
- Unpin from top bar — remove the tab.
Radd saves your pins and your renamed labels to your account. They follow you to any browser you sign in from.
A page with its own query — My Work, a view, or the timesheet — puts its query bar in the top bar's query slot.
The query bar has two modes, SLQ and Ask. Switch between them with the buttons at the bar's right edge. Ctrl+I (⌘I on a Mac) does the same while the bar has focus.
- SLQ is the full query editor. Type SLQ, an autocomplete menu suggests fields and values, and Enter runs the query.
- Ask takes a question in plain language, for example "open bugs assigned to me". Press Enter to turn it into an SLQ query. The bar then switches to SLQ mode and shows the query it built.
An empty query bar opens in Ask mode. A query bar that already holds a query — for example, one carried in the page's address — opens in SLQ mode instead. The applied query then stays visible.
The SLQ/Ask toggle appears only when an administrator has turned on the Ask feature. Without it, the bar is the SLQ editor with no toggle.
Press Ctrl+K (⌘K on a Mac) to open the command palette from anywhere. You
can also click the search pill in the top bar, or the Search row at
the top of the sidebar. A bare / key opens it too, unless you are typing
in a field.
Type to search. The palette lists, in this order:
- Matching issues.
- Matching wiki pages.
-
New issue in
<project>— one action for each project you can create in. - Go to destinations — My Work, Inbox, Projects, Reports, Timesheet, Settings, and each project's Project and Roadmap pages.
Radd hides a Go to destination you have no use for, the same rule the sidebar follows.
Once you have typed something, Radd may add an Ask row at the end of the list, reading Ask: "…" — search by meaning. This row appears only when an administrator has turned on semantic search. Select it to search by meaning instead of by keyword. Each result then carries a match score. Click the back arrow, or press Esc, to return to keyword search.
Move the selection with the arrow keys. Press Enter to open it. Esc closes the palette.
The bell in the top bar shows how many notifications you have not read. Click it to open the inbox as a drawer on the right.
Click a row to mark it read and open its work item in the item panel. The drawer closes so the item panel takes over. Click Mark all read to clear every unread notification at once. Click Open inbox at the bottom of the drawer to see the full inbox page. It holds more history than the drawer.
My Work is the page Radd opens after sign-in. It lists, in order, only the sections that have something in them:
| Section | Shows |
|---|---|
| Submit a request | Intake forms you are eligible to submit |
| My requests (and one section per team) | Work items you reported, grouped by the team it was shared with |
| Awaiting my approval | Approval requests waiting for your decision |
| Due soon | Work assigned to you, due within the next 7 days |
| Assigned to me | The rest of the work assigned to you |
| Starred | Work items you starred, up to 8 |
| Recently viewed | The work items you last opened in this browser, up to 8 |
| Inbox | Your 5 most recent notifications |
The query bar at the top of the page narrows every section at once. For
example, project = RADD limits Due soon, Assigned to me, and Starred to
that project.
Click your avatar at the bottom of the sidebar for a quick Dark theme/Light theme switch.
For both settings together, open Settings → Profile, then the Appearance section. Select Theme (dark or light) and Density (normal or compact).
Your browser saves both settings. A different browser or computer starts you on the defaults: dark theme, normal density.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+K (⌘K) | Open the command palette |
/ |
Open the command palette, when you are not typing in a field |
| Ctrl+I (⌘I) | Switch a focused query bar between SLQ and Ask |
| Esc | Close the open menu, dialog, or drawer |
TODO(verify): the interface has no single page or dialog that lists every keyboard shortcut. This table covers the shortcuts confirmed in the application window; other pages, such as the item page and the editor, may add their own.
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