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The bar across the top of every application

What each part of the bar does, from the logo on the left to the light and dark switch on the right.

Updated 31 October 2026

Every Core application, and Core home itself, has the same bar at the top.

From left to right

  • The logo takes you back to the website.
  • The application's name says where you are.
  • Sandbox appears in the middle when the page is a sandbox: fictional data, reset every night.
  • Search everything searches every application you can open on this site. See Search across your applications.
  • Help opens this help centre at the application's own page.
  • Applications (the grid of four squares) switches to another application. See Switch applications and ask for access.
  • The bell shows how many notifications you have not read, and opens Waiting for you in Core home.
  • Your account menu shows your initials and first name.
  • Light or Dark switches the theme.

The account menu

With an account of your own, the menu holds:

  • your name and email address;
  • the organisation you work in, or Working in with a button for each organisation if you belong to more than one;
  • Core home, and Waiting for you with the number unread;
  • My applications, Account settings and Password and sign-in, on your account page;
  • Sign out.

Choosing another organisation under Working in reloads the page with that organisation's data. Every application then works in it until you switch again.

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