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Quick Start

Quick Start

Build a working multi-user app — schema, UI, API and permissions — in about ten minutes. We'll model a small support-ticket tool together.

Prerequisites

  • A platform tenant. Request access from your account manager.
  • A modern browser. We support the last two major versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari.
  • Nothing else. No CLI, no Node, no Docker — everything is web-based.

Step 1 — Create a datastore

Open Architect Panel → Datastores → New datastore, name it Ticket and add fields: a reference (indexed, unique), a subject (required), a status dropdown (open / pending / resolved), a severity dropdown, an owner (user search) and a created-at date/time defaulting to now.

Hit Save. The platform immediately generates a database table, auto-generated New/Edit/View forms, a browse view, search index entries, REST API endpoints and audit-log entries.

Step 2 — Add a security group

Open Architect Panel → Security → Security Groups → New group, name it Agent, and grant it Read + Write on the Ticket datastore. Add a few users to the group.

Step 3 — Try the API

Every datastore is reachable via the REST API. From the Integrations & API area, generate an API client and copy its token, then call GET /api/ticket with an Authorization: Bearer header.

Step 4 — Render a dashboard

Go to Architect Panel → Dashboards → Custom dashboard blocks and drop in a Counter block bound to Ticket filtered by status = open. That dashboard updates live for everyone with the Agent group.

Step 5 — Deploy

Click Architect Panel → Development → Deployments → Promote to production. The platform applies migrations to the production database, runs your test suite and rolls forward only if every step passes.

You're live. Your app has SSL, daily backups, monitoring and an audit log out of the box.