A tidier sidebar, account menu and top bar - Product News

The Administrator portal's frame has had a round of tidying. Every page, permission and setting is still there; a few controls have moved to where you would look for them.

What's new

• The Backed mark in the sidebar. The sidebar now opens with the Backed mark and the BACKED. wordmark, as on our website. A long organisation name shows in full when you point at it, and scrolls to its end every 10 seconds. See Getting started as an administrator.
• A line under Dashboard and Tasks. In the sidebar, a line now separates Dashboard and Tasks from the sections below them.
• Help Centre opens the guide for this page. Help Centre at the foot of the sidebar now opens the guide for the page you are on, so the separate help icon in the top bar has gone. The accessibility statement is linked from the sidebar's foot too, after Help Centre. See Getting help.
• Support is in the top bar. The Support button has moved from the bottom-right corner to the right end of the top bar. It opens the same Get help panel, just below the bar. On a phone, Support is in the menu under your initials. See Getting help.
• Light or dark from your account menu. The theme switch has moved from the top bar into your account menu, as Appearance (Light or Dark). It is the same setting as Appearance in Your account. The account menu no longer lists Help Centre or Accessibility, which are at the foot of the sidebar.
• My access is a tab of Your account. My access, the list of the access permissions you hold, is now a tab of Your account instead of a row in your account menu. Old links to it still work. See Administrators and permissions.

Fixed

• Clicking anywhere on the search bar now puts the cursor straight into the Search by number, title or name field.