Getting Started

In this section, you learn who's the audience of this guide, what to expect from this guide, and basic pre-requisities to get started with using the platform.

Who Is This Guide For?

This guide is primarily designed for Super Admins of the platform. As a Super Admin, you can create roles, assign permissions, and govern access across all modules. You are the primary owner of how users experience and use the platform.

However, you assign roles and permissions, the same guide can also be used by the following:

• Assigned Users: Users who inherit module access and permissions granted by a Super Admin. These users can follow task-based chapters (for example, working in Workspaces, running Analytics Jobs, or importing Reports) according to their assigned capabilities.

• Module-specific Contributors: Users such as Analysts, Managers, Annotators, or Operators who are tasked with completing workflows inside the platform. Their access level depends entirely on the roles configured by a Super Admin.

To summarize, the audience of this guide are:

1. Primary Audience: Super Admins are the primary audience. They define the ecosystem of roles and permissions and shape how users interact with the platform. The first and foremost user.

2. Secondary Audience: End Users (Analysts, Managers, Operators, Annotators, Contributors, etc.). These users come into play only after the Super Admin configures the roles and permissions. Once permissions are granted, these users get started with using same modules and need the same guide to perform their tasks.

What This Guide Covers?

Since the primary audience of this guide are the Super Admins of the platform, the guide is designed around the modules shown in the platform's navigation sidebar. Each module has a dedicated section that explains:

• Core concepts - What is the module is and why it matters.
• Task-focused instructions - How to perform common workflows step-by-step.
• References - Links to other chapter or modules.

How To Use This Guide?

This guide helps you to move quickly from question → task → outcome for both the primary (super admins) and secondary users of this platform.

What To Read First

• New to gIQ?: Start with the Introduction chapter. Then move on the Prerequisites section. Once you are done, view the Overview sections of each of the modules (e.g., Workspaces, Analytics Jobs, Search Map).

• Super Admins: Get to know the Roles and Permissions section thereby enabling you to set the right access for the authorized users. Then you can focus on the tasks and managing sections of the modules.

• Users with roles: Go straight to **Overview and **Tasks** sections.

How the Docs Are Structured?

This documentation follows a very simple information architecture that anybody can understand and use:

• Overview: Purpose, scope, and role relevance.
• Viewing/Doing: Task-based instructions for end users.
• Managing: Admin and lifecycle tasks for Super Admins.

Some of the modules for example, Search Map, Contextual Details Panel add feature-specific subsections for faster navigation and information access.

Conventions Used in the Guide

• Bold for UI elements. For example, Filter, Publish
• Exact naming for tabs/dialogs. For example, Queued, Target dialog
• Callouts: Note, Important, Warning.
• Annotations: Clearly annotated screenshots to help you navigate better and faster.
• GIFs: Video elements explaining procedure steps.

Supported Browsers & Basic Prerequisites

The platform works best on the latest versions of the following browsers:

• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Edge

For optimal performance, enable JavaScript, cookies, and ensure pop-ups are allowed for the platform domain.

Basic Prerequisites

• Desktop or Laptop - A modern workstation with at least 8 GB RAM and a graphics-capable browser for rendering geospatial visualizations.
• Stable internet connection - A minimum of 10 Mbps is recommended for smooth interaction with geospatial data.
• User credentials - You must have either Super Admin access or a user role assigned by a Super Admin.