Overview

A Carbon workspace is a curated collection of applications and resources that can be configured to optimize a user workflow.

Carbon workspaces can be used to promote the discoverability of Foundry resources, which can be linked on the home page, discovered with search, or added to the Open in menu in Object Explorer.

By configuring navigation in Carbon and customizing the menu bar, a workspace builder can create a workflow where a user seamlessly steps through the resources in which they can interact with a particular object.

Home page

Carbon provides a configurable home page as an entry point to each workspace. The home page displays an Ontology-aware search bar as well as configurable sections for links to modules, object types, and other Foundry resources. Alternatively, any module can be chosen as a workspace's home page.

Administrators can configure the logo as well as the content and layout of the home page's links. For more information, see the home page configuration documentation.

Menu bar

Each Carbon workspace has a customizable menu bar that consists of the following components:

• The Navigation Menu, which is a configurable dropdown containing promoted workspaces and external application links.
• Tabs containing anchored modules that are key to a workspace's use case.
• An optional button to open additional modules in workspace tabs.
• Utility buttons for help resources and, optionally, notifications, as well as a utility button with options to view one's user profile or log out of Foundry.

Read more about menu bar configuration.

Promoted workspaces

Promoted workspaces are those that are displayed in the Navigation Menu. Promoted workspaces are configured at the organization level.

In the Navigation Menu, each user will see all of the promoted workspaces to which they have access, for all organizations in which they are a member or a guest.

Non-promoted workspaces can be opened in a Project or via direct link.