Navigating the dashboard
The rail and the bar
Two pieces of furniture follow you everywhere in Judicio: a rail down the left, and a bar across the top. Learn them once and you will stop hunting.
This page is about that furniture. What sits inside it, on the page you land on when you sign in, is The home screen.
The left rail
The rail is your primary navigation. Every entry is an icon with its name underneath, and the entry you are currently in is filled in rather than outlined.
| Entry | Goes to |
|---|---|
| The Judicio mark at the top | Home. It is a link, not decoration |
| Home | The dashboard home |
| Research | Research |
| Drafting | Drafting |
| Case Strategy | Case Strategy |
| Document Review | Document Review |
| Review Matrix | Review Matrix |
| Timeline | Timeline |
| Translation | Translation |
| Lookup | Lookup |
| File Library | File Library |
| Support | Getting help |
Support is separated from the rest by a hairline and pinned to the bottom of the rail.
Lookup searches external court and company records, and those exist in some jurisdictions and not others. The server decides whether the entry appears. If you do not see it, it is not available for your workspace, and nothing is wrong with your account.
The top bar
Left to right, the bar holds the project selector, the current feature's name, and the Files pill. On the right sit Projects, Templates, the notification bell, theme, jurisdiction, your avatar, and a trial banner where one applies.
The project selector
The pill at the far left reads My projects when you are working outside a project, or the project's name when you are inside one. Opening it lists your projects, each with a radio and a tick on the active one, with the seeded sample project badged Judicio. Add new project at the foot of the list opens the create form.
Picking a project scopes the screens that follow to it. Project mechanics, members and history live in Projects.
The feature name
Between the selector and the Files pill, feature screens show the feature you are in. Where your account belongs to an organisation, its name follows after a separator. Home, Projects, Templates, Support and Notifications show nothing here.
The Files pill
One pill, three behaviours, decided by where you are standing.
| Where you are | What Files does |
|---|---|
| A feature screen: Research, Drafting, Case Strategy, Document Review, Review Matrix, Timeline or Translation | Shows and hides the Files panel beside your work. The pill lights up and its glyph opens while the panel is showing |
| The File Library itself | Leaves the File Library and returns you Home, and arranges for the panel to be showing next time you open a feature |
| Anywhere else: Home, Projects, Templates, Support, Settings | Opens the File Library |
The middle row is the one that surprises people. On the File Library there is no work underneath for a panel to sit beside, so the pill is a way out rather than a toggle.
The Files panel itself, and everything you can do in it, is File Library.
Projects and Templates
Projects opens the full projects screen. Templates opens the shared template library used across every tool. See Projects and Templates.
The notification bell
The bell opens a panel of your recent notifications, and carries a dot while any are unread. It is covered in full in Notifications.
Theme settings
The sun or moon glyph opens a menu of three: System, Dark mode, Light mode, with a tick on the one in force. System follows your operating system. Your choice is saved to your account, so it follows you to another machine.
The jurisdiction switcher
The jurisdiction button shows the current country’s flag and name with a dropdown chevron. Wider top bars also show the Jurisdiction label and, for the United States, the scope, such as United States: California +1. Opening it lists the jurisdictions on your profile, with a checkmark beside the selected country. The heading reads Switch jurisdiction when more than one option is available.
When the United States is selected, the popover also sets its scope: Nationwide, Federal only or Selected states. Selected states adds a search field and a list of states to tick, and research then looks in those states’ courts and official sites. Relevant federal law is always kept. Until you tick a state, the scope you had before stays in force.
When an EU member state such as Germany is selected, the popover notes that the EU law that applies there is always included. There is nothing to set: new work for that country covers both its own law and EU law.
Every choice applies at once. The footer reads Applies to new work. Its information tooltip explains that templates, examples, suggestions and new AI runs follow the selected jurisdiction and scope, while running and past work keep the scope they started with. Manage jurisdictions opens Profile settings, where you can add or remove the available jurisdictions.
The switcher is hidden entirely while your profile has no jurisdictions.
Your avatar
The circle at the right opens your account menu. It leads with your name, your email address, and a tile naming your plan.
| Row | Goes to |
|---|---|
| The plan tile's Upgrade or Manage | Upgrade while you are on a trial, Billing and invoices once you are on a plan |
| Profile | Profile settings |
| Security | Security settings |
| Preferences | Preferences |
| Organization | Organisation settings. Administrators only |
| Billing & Invoices | Billing and invoices |
| Usage & Analytics | Usage and analytics |
| Take a tour | Restarts the guided walkthrough. Desktop only |
| Show getting started | Brings the Getting started checklist back to the home after you dismissed it. Only while it has steps left |
| Sign out | Signs you out and clears this browser |
The plan tile also carries a second line: days left while you are on a trial, or your seat count and renewal date once you are on a plan. Members of an organisation who cannot manage billing do not see the billing rows at all.
The trial banner
While your trial is running, a banner sits at the right-hand end of the bar reading Trial ends in the number of days, with your credits used out of your allowance underneath, and an Upgrade button. Trials, credits and plans are covered in Account and billing.
Things that appear over the page
A few surfaces are not part of the bar or the rail, but show up on top of whatever you are doing.
- A card in the bottom right during a trial, headed Your trial ends in the number of days, with Upgrade now. Its close control dismisses it for good on this browser.
- A tour prompt in the same corner the first time you open a feature, headed New to Research? and so on. Show me runs the walkthrough; Not now retires that prompt.
- An invitation banner above the page content on any dashboard screen when a colleague has invited you, reading You're invited to their organisation, with Accept. It hides itself once nothing is outstanding.
- An upload summary while files are uploading, on any screen with nowhere else to dock it. See Uploading files.
On a narrow screen
The rail collapses behind a menu button at the top left, and the Files, Projects and Templates pills are hidden. The bell, theme, jurisdiction and avatar stay. The guided tour is desktop only, so Take a tour does not appear in the account menu on a phone.
Next steps
- The home screen - the page inside all of this.
- Notifications - the bell and its full page.
- Getting help - the Support entry at the foot of the rail.