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Workspace styles

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PortSpace, the Tabbed layout or the Project-first layout: the firm’s choice, your own, what changes and what stays the same.

In the manual: Workspace style

Transcript

0:01Workspace styles.

0:03A team coming from other specification software can keep the layout it knows. Owners and administrators choose it under Settings, Firm, Workspace style.

0:14PortSpace is the default: the item list with pictures, by area,

0:18and each item’s page with its spec and picture side by side.

0:22Pick one, and it’s saved at once.

0:25The Tabbed layout, familiar from web-based spec systems with tabbed item pages, puts the modules in two rows on one blue bar, and every item in one grid, by item number.

0:37Each item opens in tabs.

0:40Each person can choose their own style on their profile,

0:43or keep Use my firm’s style.

0:46The Project-first layout is familiar if you’ve used a desktop spec database. You pick a project, and work from a main menu,

0:54and each spec is one dense form, with its print buttons beside it.

0:59A style changes the words, the menus, the item list, the item page and the colors.

1:05It doesn’t change your data or features: the same records sit underneath, and switched-off modules stay off.

1:12And clients and contractors always see PortSpace, whatever your team uses.

1:18While a familiar layout is on, a line on the start page says which one it is and where to change it. Got it closes it.

1:26Its guide, Coming from a tabbed spec system,

1:29or from a desktop spec database, shows each screen you knew, and where it is here.

1:34That’s workspace styles. More videos: portspace.io/videos

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