Control Panel

Control Panel is the page where you can create and manage your integrations, APIs and execution environments centrally. It includes all the tools you need to create, test and monitor your integrations, as well as perform user administration tasks within your Tenant.

Control Panel is often identified by its URL, which makes it completely separate from other Tenants. Direct URL such as yourtenant.frendsapp.com can be used to access your Frends Control Panel directly.

Home view

You can find most of the help and resources available to get going with your Frends tenant from the Home view. It is the first page you arrive to in your Frends Tenant, and you can also access it through the Frends logo in your Frends Control Panel.

Search

Home view contains a powerful global search tool, able to search for everything in your Frends environment, as well as from the documentation. It also includes integration to an AI assistant, able to give you more specific answers from our docs to your queries.

Onboarding

Our onboarding section includes interactive walkthroughs to your Frends Tenant, giving you hands-on experience in getting familiar with Frends. We highly recommend checking them out if you're new to Frends or coming from older versions, as some things have changed and there's a lot of new features to get excited about.

The onboarding tours start from general overview of the Control Panel and where to find everything you might need and go all the way to guiding you to creating whole integrations for common use cases as well as managing your environment, so they cater to many different roles and different situations you might encounter with Frends.

Documentation & more

As you're already reading this, you have either already found this from the Home view, or stumbled across our docs site otherwise. The documentation category pulls its contents from here and gives you easy and quick access to whatever you might need, be it reference documentation about a shape or instructions on how to deploy a new Agent.

From here you can also find your way to our recorded and upcoming webinars as well as to our Academy courses, to learn more about Frends and even become a Certified Frend™ if you take on the certification exams.

Finally, at the very bottom, you can find out about our upcoming features, suggest new features and most importantly, if you ever encounter any issues when using Frends, please let us know about it. We are doing our best to provide you the best experience possible and these are some of the channels you can use to help us help you.

Main navigation

At the very top of the page, you can find the main navigation bar, visible on all pages.

Navigation items

Dashboard is a comprehensive tool within the Frends Control Panel designed to provide users with a clear and concise overview of their system activities. It includes key metrics such as performance statistics and integration execution logs, presented using customizable widgets.

APIs contain the pages for API Management. In here, you can create and manage your APIs and endpoints, monitor the APIs as well as set up API Policies for access control and authentication.

Processes is the bread and butter page of Frends, giving you access to Process list and all Processes related topics. Majority of integration development is done through this page.

Along with Processes, Subprocesses contain the Subprocess list. These are used as reusable parts in Processes and other Subprocesses, and are developed in the same way as Processes are.

Templates give you access to importing Templates and making them into Processes and Subprocesses. Templates are created to cover many different use cases, from having a starting point for your own Processes and speeding up development for known cases, to allowing running Processes from Business Automation Portal by business personnel, without requiring extensive knowledge to develop and manage integrations otherwise.

Environment Variables are variables used in Processes, that have varying content depending on the Environment the Process is deployed to. These allow for example to configure different credentials and API endpoints for test and production environments, making for easy deployment and version control. It's also the centralized location to save credentials and other more sensitive data as well as global constants used in Processes.

As last item of the navigation, there is the Administration menu. Here you can find the global settings and Environment details for your tenant, such as user, Agent and Task management and connected authentication providers.

Profile, notifications & help

From the right hand side of the navigation bar, you can find the Notifications bell icon, showing you all important or new information about your Tenant.

Help button will open a chat window for you, where you can ask AI for answers and also contact the support team for help. It's also a quick way to access the documentation.

Under your username, you can enable or disable Dark mode if you prefer. The menu also provides access to the onboarding page, and if you want to give feedback, you can do it from here as well. Please note that any feature requests or bugs should be reported using the specific tools on homepage instead.