Manual / Personalising the app
Personalising the app
- For
- a controller setting the app up the way they work
- Status
- current
- Covers
- the ⚙ Settings panel, and the controls on the screens that share its values
- Last checked against the app
6f7727e(2026-08-19)
Kinetic Melbourne OCC — the tool built for Kinetic Melbourne's Operational Control Centre — lets you set how it opens, how it reads the clock, which operators' routes it starts on, and what colour it says things in. Five pages, and none of them has to be read before you can use the app.
The pages here
| Page | What it answers |
|---|---|
| The Settings panel | Where it is, what is in it, where your choices are kept, and what happens when you sign in |
| What Reset actually does | Why Reset deletes your choice rather than storing today's value, and why that is the right way round |
| Colour and accessibility | The four palettes, changing one band, saving your own, and why a palette must recolour the map as well as the words |
| The clock | 12-hour or 24-hour, the +1 marker that survives both, and the times the setting does not reach |
| Your operators and your depot | The Operator filter, "Make this my default scope", and My depot |
The one idea the whole thing rests on
The panel owns your default. The control on the screen owns this session.
Some controls exist in both places, and that is deliberate rather than duplication. The headway watch and alarm lines are the clearest case: you adjust them while looking at the headway overlay, because that is where the pairs you are judging are on screen — and burying that behind three clicks into a settings panel would make the app worse. So the control stays on the overlay, and the panel edits the same value from the other end.
Which is which:
| Where the control is | What it is for |
|---|---|
| On the screen — a filter, a toggle, a threshold beside the numbers it judges | Now. It changes what you are looking at, this session |
| In ⚙ Settings | From now on. It changes what the app opens with, every time |
| A pin-style button at the foot of a panel — "Make this my default scope", "Open the map like this next time" | The bridge. It takes what you have set up on screen and makes it the default |
Anything with no natural home on a screen — the colour palette, the clock format, whether the app picks up where you left off — lives only in the panel.
Two rules that stop this being surprising
Nothing here changes what a link means. Your opening layers, your basemap, your starting Timetable view: they say where the app starts when you open it. Follow a link somebody sent you and it shows what they were looking at. If your own defaults filled in a link's silences, one link would show two different maps to two people, and neither would know.
Nothing here changes what a number is. Setting the headway alarm tighter changes which gaps get flagged, not the gaps. Recolouring a band changes what colour it is drawn in, not which band a bus is in. No setting in this app moves a band boundary, and none of them can be made to.