> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# The app tour

> The three tabs, the Search tab, and where every screen lives

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The app has three tabs along the bottom: **Home**, **Phone**, and a magnifying glass that opens the **Search** tab. Home is the day. Phone is the line. Everything else in the app lives behind the magnifying glass.

## Home

Home is the technician's day, not a menu. It shows the month, a week strip, and the day laid out by the hour with a card for each stop. The toolbar shows the weather for where you are.

A stop card carries the customer's name and the service type. Tap it and it expands to the address, with **Directions** and **Work order**. Tap **Work order** and you are on the job.

## The Search tab

Twenty-two rows in five groups, with **Agent** on its own at the top. The tab is the app's table of contents.

| Group                 | Rows                                                                             |
| --------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| On its own at the top | **Agent**                                                                        |
| **Day**               | **Reminders**, **Route**, **Mail**, **Tasks**, **Weather**                       |
| **Phone**             | **Phone**, **Voicemail**, **Callbacks**                                          |
| **People**            | **Contacts**, **Messages**, **Notes**                                            |
| **Operations**        | **Assets**, **Stock lists**, **Work orders**, **Purchase orders**, **Suppliers** |
| **You**               | **Hours**, **Time off**, **Approvals**, **History**, **Profile**                 |

Three rows need a word of their own.

* **Agent** is where you talk to the assistant ([Glossary](/reference/glossary)): ask it to make a change, or ask the equipment manuals a question. It opens over the whole screen rather than pushing, because it is a conversation you step into and back out of.
* **Route** draws the day's stops on a map in the order you drive them, and lets you reorder them.
* **Mail** is the queue of replies the assistant has drafted to customer email. You open one, then send it or discard it.

**Approvals** shows only for an admin or a super admin; everyone else sees four rows under **You**.

### What the numbers next to a row mean

A number counts what is still waiting on you, not the total.

| Row           | The number is                                              |
| ------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Mail**      | Replies drafted for you that you have not decided on       |
| **Approvals** | Timesheets and time off requests submitted and not decided |
| **Messages**  | Conversations with something unread                        |
| **Phone**     | Missed calls                                               |
| **Voicemail** | Messages nobody has listened to                            |
| **Callbacks** | Callbacks still open                                       |
| **Hours**     | 1 when your timesheet is due                               |

A row with no number has nothing outstanding, which is not the same as having nothing at all. **Voicemail** shows no number when every message has been listened to, even though the messages are still there.

### Typed search

The search box at the bottom of the tab searches across the app at once and groups what it finds: **Contacts**, **Jobs**, **Equipment**, **Tasks**, **Notes**, **Suppliers**, **Messages**, **Voicemail**, **Callbacks** and **Screens**.

Type a customer's surname and you get the person, their job and their equipment in one list. Type a work order number and you get that job. Type part of a serial and you get the equipment. Type a screen's name and you get the screen.

Results appear a moment after you stop typing. Search looks first in what your phone already holds, then asks the engine, so a list that grows a second later is normal.

## Hours, and signing out

**Hours** is empty for the owner, and says so: the owner approves hours and does not file them. Technicians see their pay period there instead; see [File hours and request time off](/handbook/hours/file-hours-and-request-time-off).

Signing out is in **Profile**.

## Related

* [The 7am app](/systems/the-7am-app)
* [Roles and what they can do](/handbook/app/roles-and-what-they-can-do)
* [Team messages and group chats](/handbook/app/team-messages-and-group-chats)
* [Notifications we send](/reference/notifications-we-send)