Windows & Layouts

On a wide (desktop) screen, PRISM is a multi-window workspace: a freeform canvas of windows you can open, move, resize, and arrange. The same views adapt down to a single-screen drawer on phone-narrow windows.

The Top Bar

• Add Window — opens a list of every available window, grouped by category (Programming, Playback, Stage, Library, Monitor, Setup). Pick one and it appears on the canvas at its default size.
• Help — a menu with two items:
  • Open Manual — the bundled user manual, offline.
  • Send Feedback… — describes a problem and uploads it with the server log attached. If the upload fails (venue networks often block it), a readable copy is saved locally and the app tells you where.
• Status indicator — live connection state to the server: Connected / Reconnecting / Disconnected.

Windows on the canvas can be dragged to move, resized by their edges, maximized, closed, and clicked to bring to the front. The full list of window types is described in Data Views.

Named Layouts

Above the toolbar is a row of layout tabs — one per saved layout.

• Create — the + button at the right of the tab row asks for a name (for example “Concert Setup”) and creates a new empty layout.
• Switch — tap a tab to load that layout; the canvas switches to its saved windows, positions, sizes, and maximize states.
• Rename / Delete — the small menu on each tab.

Changes to the window arrangement save automatically (a half-second after your last move or resize) into the layout that is active. Layouts are stored on the server per show, so every console that joins the show sees the same layouts. On startup the most recent layout loads; if no layouts exist, PRISM creates a default “Untitled” layout with a single Controls window.

Phone-Narrow Mode

When the app window is narrower than about 600 px (phones, small tablets), the freeform canvas is replaced by a single-screen shell: one full-screen view at a time, with a hamburger drawer listing the same window set. Your last screen choice is remembered when you switch back and forth.

Not yet available: layouts save which windows are open and where they sit; per-window options such as column visibility are not yet part of a layout.

Related Documentation

• Data Views — the windows available to add
• System Overview — server and clients
• Multi-User Sessions — shared layouts on a shared show