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UI basics

When you first sign in to Opaque, you'll land on a clean, minimal interface designed to help you manage sensitive data, work across teams, and perform secure computations.

While the features available depend on your role—organization admin, workspace admin, or workspace member—the overall layout remains consistent across the platform. Here’s a quick tour of the main elements to help you get oriented.

Core interface elements

The Opaque interface includes the following core components, visible to all Opaque users:

  1. Primary navigation
  2. Page view
  3. Utility nav
  4. Opaque version

Core Opaque user interface elements

Primary navigation

Use the left-hand navigation panel to access the platform’s main sections. What you see here depends on your role:

  • Workspaces: View and switch between workspaces you’ve joined or created (workspace admins only).
  • Data Management: Connect datasets for use in workspaces.
  • Audit Logs (org admins only): Track all actions on the platform for compliance and security verification.
  • Admin (org admins only): View and manage organization members.
  • API keys (workspace members only): Retrieve keys for accessing Opaque services.

Secondary navigation

When you enter a workspace, the primary navigation collapses into an icon-only menu, and a secondary navigation panel appears with workspace-specific options that enable you to choose the types of job you want to run, access shared datasets and job results, and look up workspace details and collaborators, among other options.

Page view

This section updates based on the item selected in the navigation panel. It’s where you’ll complete tasks, view data, and interact with different features based on your role and the page you're on.

Utility nav

Use the icons in the top-right corner to access:

  • Help (): Open the Opaque user guide.
  • Notifications (): View alerts and system messages.
  • User account (): View your sign-in email and log out.

UI differences by role

The following figures show examples of the default admin and user (workspace member) views after signing in to Opaque.

Organization admin view

Organization admin view after first sign-in

  • Workspaces to view, switch between, and manage workspaces (as workspace admins or members).
  • Data Management to connect datasets for use in workspaces.
  • Audit Log to track all actions on the platform for compliance and security verification.
  • Admin to view organization members and promote members to workspace admins.

Workspace admin view

Workspace admin view after first sign-in

  • Workspaces to create new workspaces, invite users, and switch between existing workspaces.
  • Data Management to connect datasets for use within assigned workspaces.

Workspace member view

Workspace member view after first sign-in

  • Workspaces to switch between existing workspaces and collaborate they've been invited to.
  • Data Management to connect datasets for use in the workspaces.
  • API key to access services.

Configuring your view

Each page in Opaque includes a table displaying relevant data, which you can customize using sorting and filtering options. You can click the menu in most columns to sort or filter rows in a table:

  • Sort by ASC sorts rows in ascending order based on that column's values (A to Z, or earliest to most recent date and time).
  • Sort by DESC sorts rows in descending order based on that column's values (Z to A, or most recent to earliest date and time).
  • Unsort re-sorts rows by their default order. Each table on a page has its own default order.

  • Filter enables you to set conditions based on that column, to display only rows that meet the specified condition.

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    A table accepts only one active filter at a time.

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