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Current source: in-app help · The detailed manual is currently available in English.

01Getting startedWhat ARGUS is, signing in, choosing a workspace and finding your way around, on the web and on the phone.↗02Workspaces, people and rolesCreating workspaces, adding people, giving roles, groups, API tokens and access reviews.↗03Equipment (assets)Registering equipment and positions, types and attributes, relations, labels and QR codes, attachments, history and provenance, bulk changes.↗04Guided and AI-assisted entryThe checklist beside every form, and Describe it, which fills a form from a sentence, a photo or a file; writing a document by voice or from a photo, and Tidy with AI.↗05Importing dataBringing equipment, tickets and documents in from EPIK8s, Jira, Confluence, DokuWiki, Git and Markdown; re-running imports, by hand or on a schedule; mapping imported records.↗06The review queueDeciding on inferred facts, AI proposals, conflicts between sources and proposed installations.↗07Service desk (tickets)Reporting a fault or a request, working tickets through their workflow, the board, watchers, notifications and subscriptions.↗08Activities and capture by voiceRecording work planned, under way and done — one-off or recurring — and capturing a fault or a piece of work by voice, proposed as a ticket or an activity for you to confirm; the workspace's activities by planned or done date, as a calendar or a list.↗09Documents and the knowledge baseWriting procedures, manuals and reports; the first revision and later ones, review, approval and publication; confidentiality, sharing, retention and where a document applies.↗10The knowledge graphSeeing how records are connected, what is about the same thing by meaning, what stops if something fails, and what could cause a fault.↗11The beam modelThe machine's beam-transport model: importing it from MAD-X and other codes, markers and vacuum elements, editing it, removing it, and linking its components to the equipment.↗12Ask ARGUSAsking questions in your own words, checking the answers, following up, letting the assistant propose changes you confirm, and using it on the phone.↗13AI settingsConnecting an AI endpoint, choosing models, the output-token limit, keeping the knowledge index up to date automatically, and evaluating models for guided entry.↗14Export and import (portability)Moving workspaces or a whole instance between ARGUS installations, step by step: by downloaded file or through a GitHub or GitLab repository, and from a local ARGUS to production.↗15Workspace bundles and demo workspacesCopy one workspace into a new one, here or on another ARGUS, as a readable ZIP — and install the two synthetic demo workspaces, IT Services and Medium Linac Facility.↗16Administration and the production installationThe administration pages, the production installation (addresses, sign-in, releases, the mobile app's distribution), backups, and where operators find the details.↗17My account, API tokens and the mobile appSeeing who you are to ARGUS and what you may do; personal access tokens for your scripts; robot tokens for machines such as a facility's daily-logbook uploader; and where the mobile app is described.↗18The mobile app (ARGUS Field)Installing ARGUS Field, signing in, finding equipment by scanning its label, registering units, tickets and documents on the phone, attaching photos, video, notes and places, notifications, working offline, and withdrawing a phone's access.↗19Map and locationsWhere equipment and places are: positions, routes (cables, pipes, beamlines) and outlines (buildings, halls, rooms, zones, with heights a volume) and their history, what lies inside or crosses an area, the map, searching near a point, reporting a position from the phone, reviewing what the field saw, and importing locations from a file.↗20Advanced querySelecting tickets, equipment and documents with a query — fields, operators, dates, functions, ordering, and searching several workspaces.↗21Domain packagesWhat a workspace can hold, by domain: safety and radiation protection, vacuum and cryogenics, buildings and access control, lasers and alignment, environmental monitoring, contracts and administration, technology transfer, IT — and how to choose them, what they bring, and what they do not promise.↗22Migrating records to a package typeMove records from a custom type, or a shared catalogue's type, to a standard type of a versioned package — previewed, in batches, verified, reversible.↗23GLPIBringing a GLPI 10 or 11 into an IT workspace: connecting it, what discovery finds, mapping entities to workspaces, approving GLPI's own types and fields, previewing and importing, who wins when both sides changed, and deciding about records GLPI no longer lists.↗24Importing a spreadsheetTurning an Excel or CSV list into records — the type found or created (with every default property), where each column goes by rules and the AI, checking every row first, and updating records already imported.↗25IOC engineerGetting help with EPICS IOCs built with ibek: find a driver, write a beamline IOC entry, check it before deploying, start a new driver.↗