Interface and navigation

The sidebar

The sidebar is always there and looks the same on every page. Most of it is taken up by the stand tree — PDM has no separate “list of all stands” page, that tree is the list. How its search and “Favorites” work is described in Stands.

Sections

Menu item	What it is for	Documentation
Dashboard	Platform summary: clusters, stands, active builds, recent releases	Home page
CI Builds	Triggering service builds and the history of triggered builds	Builds
Releases	Release history and starting a new release	Releases
Workspaces	The list of long-running operations and their step-by-step progress	Workspaces

The menu also leads to the Administration section — that one is for administrators and is not covered by this documentation — and to account settings, which is also where active sessions live.

The menu is not everywhere

The workspace page replaces the common menu with its own sidebar listing the steps.

How lists work

Search is available wherever there can be many items: stands in the sidebar, services on the stand's “Services” tab, secrets on the “Secrets” tab. There are no configurable filters and no sorting by column — the order is fixed by the system, usually newest first.

An empty list does not always mean “nothing here”

Lists only show what you have permissions for. If a stand has “disappeared”, it most likely means you were not granted access to it, not that it was deleted. See Permissions.

Statuses and colour badges

In PDM, colour always means state. The set of statuses differs from section to section.

Stand state:

Colour	Caption	Meaning
Green	Operational	Every service on the stand is running
Orange	Degraded	Some of the services are running
Red	Down	No service is running
Grey	Unknown	No data — the cluster did not answer. This is not the same as “down”

Long-running operations and releases: “Pending”, “Running”, “Completed”, “Failed”, “Cancelled”. An individual step of an operation can be “Queued”, “Running”, “Completed” or “Failed”, and a build can be “Queued”, “Running”, “Success” or “Failed”.

Stand configuration values are marked with badges: blue is the shared default value, orange is Overridden (the value is set for this stand specifically), green is Changed (your edit, not applied yet). See Stand configuration for details.

What updates on its own

PDM keeps a permanent connection to the server, so some data changes on screen by itself, without reloading the page:

• stand state — the dots in the sidebar, the status and availability in the stand header, the cards on its monitoring tab;
• the progress of long-running operations — the status of the operation as a whole, the statuses of individual steps, the logs and the graph on the workspace page, as well as the rows in the “Workspaces” list.

Everything else — builds and releases in particular — is loaded when you open the page. To see fresh data, open the page again.

No button means no permission

If you lack the permission for an action, the control simply is not rendered: Deploy changes on a stand, New release, triggering builds, the Secrets tab, the Refresh button on the dashboard. See Permissions.

What's next

• Home page — where work begins.
• Stand page — the main working screen of PDM.
• Core concepts — clusters, projects, stands and services.