Navigation & Search

The admin panel holds a lot of features, all tidied away into clearly labelled groups down the left-hand side. This page shows you how the menu is organised, how to jump straight to anything with the search box, and how residents search the public website.

The left-hand menu

Everything you manage lives in the menu down the left of the screen. Related features are gathered into groups, each with a heading. Select a group heading to expand it and reveal its items; select it again to collapse it.

Group	What's inside
Parish Council	Councillors, committees, meetings, policies, reports and audits.
AGAR	Your annual governance return and the asset register. Only appears if AGAR has been switched on for your site.
Content	Pages, news, events, notices, FAQs, amenities, history and more.
Media	The image and document library.
Community	Resident issues, venues, grants and local features.
Blogs	Multi-author blogs, posts and the comment moderation queue.
Communications	Contact submissions, subscribers and newsletters.
Finance	Payments, ticket orders and donations. Only appears if online payments have been switched on for your site.
Analytics & Audit	Visitor analytics and the audit log.
Users & Access	User accounts and roles.
Settings	Branding, theme, communications, integrations and more.

Collapsing and expanding groups

All groups start collapsed so the menu stays short and tidy. The panel remembers which groups you leave open, so the next time you sign in your menu looks just as you left it.

Beneath the search box you'll find two handy buttons:

• Collapse all — tidies every group away at once.
• Expand all — opens every group so you can scan the full menu.

Searching the menu

The quickest way to reach any feature is the search box at the top of the sidebar. Start typing and the menu instantly filters to matching items, opening whichever groups contain a match.

1. Press / anywhere in the admin panel to jump straight to the search box.
2. Type a few letters of what you're looking for — for example news or venue.
3. The menu narrows to matching items as you type.
4. Select the item you want to open it.

Features reached from a button

Some related features don't have their own menu item. Instead, you reach them from a button along the top of the page they belong to. This keeps the menu uncluttered.

To manage	Open	Then select
Committees	Councillors	Manage Sub-Committees
Meeting types	Meetings	Manage Meeting Types
Policy categories	Policies	Manage Categories
Report categories	Reports & Audits	Manage Categories
Staff types	Personnel	Manage Personnel Types
News categories	News	Manage Categories
Notice categories	Notices	Manage Categories
Issue categories	Resident Issues	Manage Categories
Venue bookings	Venues	View All Bookings
Grant applications	Grant Schemes	View Applications
Ticket orders	Events	Ticket Orders

If you can't find something in the menu, check the related page for a button along the top.

Search on the public website

Residents have their own search, built into the public website. It looks across all your published content at once — news, events, meetings, policies, FAQs, amenities, venues, councillors and more — and inside your documents too: Documents covers files in the Media Library, and Meeting Papers covers agendas, minutes and other meeting documents.

• As a resident types into the search bar, live suggestions appear to help them refine what they're after.
• The full results page groups matches by type, with filter pills so visitors can narrow down to, say, just news or just meeting papers.
• A second row of pills narrows results by date: Last 30 days, Last 12 months, This year or Last year.
• Matching words are highlighted in each result so it's clear why it appeared.