Manual / Getting started
Getting started
- For
- anyone opening the app for the first time
- Status
- current
- Covers
- the whole app — the top bar, the four tabs and the banners
- Last checked against the app
0963ac5(2026-08-19)
Five pages, and they are meant to be read in order the first time. By the end of them you will know what this tool is for, whether you need to sign in, what the screen is made of, and how to get back to something you were looking at ten minutes ago.
The pages here
| Page | What it answers |
|---|---|
| What this tool is | What it shows, where the information comes from, and what it will not do |
| Signing in | Whether you need an account, what you can see without one, and what happens when a session ends |
| What your role lets you do | Which buttons each kind of account gets — and which ones are missing rather than broken |
| The screen | The top bar, the four tabs, the banner column, and where each control lives |
| Finding your way back | The Recent menu, the ◀ and ▶ buttons, and the offer to pick up where you left off |
Two things worth knowing before you touch anything
They are both places where the screen looks like it is telling you one thing and is telling you another. Each has its own page later; they are here because a first-day reader will meet them on their first morning.
A grey bus is not an on-time bus. When the map is colouring buses by how late they are running, grey means no prediction was published for that bus — the live feed said nothing about it. It is the absence of an answer, not the answer "on time". A bus running twenty minutes down and a bus nobody has heard from look completely different on the map, and they should.
A greyed-out tab is not a broken tab. The Operations Analysis tab stays in the bar and goes faded when this deployment has no driver roster loaded. Hover it and it tells you what is missing. When a roster is loaded and the only problem is that you are not signed in, the tab does something different — it wears a small padlock and stays clickable, so that clicking it asks you for credentials rather than dead-ending.
Where the rest of the manual is
Everything past this section is arranged by the screen it describes — the map, the overlays, the timetable, operations analysis, diversions, the traffic radio, personal settings, and one section on reading the numbers honestly. The last section, When something looks wrong, is the one to open when the app is showing you something you did not expect.