Getting started

A short orientation for anyone opening SimOps for the first time. Work through it once, in order, and you will have found the three things every other page assumes you can reach: the map, the timeline, and the dock.

Your first ten minutes

Everyone — staff, coordinators and contractors — signs in the same way, and everyone lands on a site plan. What differs is only which panels your role can open.

Open SimOps and click Sign in. The landing page hands you to the site's single sign-on provider; there is no separate SimOps password.
You land on the site you most recently worked on — the choice is remembered per user, per browser. On a first-ever sign-in, pick your site from the list.
Get your bearings on the map. The site plan is the centre of everything: work areas, zones, plant, deliveries and people are drawn in their real positions over the background map. Pan and zoom to move around it, and use the floor selector to change level inside a building.
Move the timeline scrubber along the bottom of the screen. A site is a moving thing, so SimOps is time-aware: the scrubber sets the moment you are looking at, and the map redraws to show who and what is on site then. Drag it forward an hour and watch the plan change (The timeline scrubber shows the whole site moving with the clock).
Open a dock panel. Nearly every dock panel has a keystroke of its own — press N for the Noticeboard, B for the entity browser, D for properties. Press the same key again to close it. The dock reads left to right in four bands — the view panels, then surfacing (Noticeboard and your own T task list), then the work homes (Permits, Work, Commercial, Health & Safety, and the Site Diary on a site that has a designated principal contractor), then site ops. Three of those homes open full screen rather than as a side panel: Health & Safety (H), Commercial (I) and the Site Diary (Y) — each landing on a grid of tiles you pick from. Escape steps back out of them a level at a time.
Look at what your role can reach. The dock only shows panels you have permission to open, so a read-only account sees fewer buttons than a coordinator. Nothing is hidden to be mysterious — a missing button means a missing permission, and the backend enforces the same rule regardless of what the screen shows.

Two controls decide what that plan actually shows you while you are finding your bearings in step 3 — the layer list, and the background map underneath everything else:

Note: Every dock key is listed on the keybindings reference. The two modal keys are worth knowing early: A enters add mode (then one more key picks what to add — W worker, C plant, A area) and S enters select mode (B box, L lasso, Q query). Both exit on their own after one action.

Where to go next

A contractor — see your zones, your people and your deliveries: For contractors.
A coordinator — run the day's clashes, permits and reports: For coordinators.
Anyone recording a stoppage — Blockers & delays.
The main contractor's squad, filling in today's record — The site diary and Filling in your round.