Boards and folders
What a board holds
Section titled “What a board holds”A board is one network or system, drawn. It keeps:
- devices — with addresses, hardware details, and what your team writes: a description, a Markdown runbook (up to 20,000 characters), an owner, classification, recovery, support and lifecycle details, your organization’s own fields;
- connections — cables and flows, and the relations between layers;
- zones — networks, sites and hosts that group devices;
- notes and documents beside the diagram.
The same board reads as a diagram, an inventory, registers and a document. A device’s description and runbook are encrypted at rest.
A board holds at most 1000 devices and 5000 connections when saved by a person. A board an agent has grown past that still opens and saves.
Spaces
Section titled “Spaces”A board lives in exactly one space: your personal space, or an organization. Inside an organization a member creates boards and folders at the root; a viewer cannot.
- Transfer moves a personal board into one of your organizations. It is the only move between spaces.
- Duplicate copies a board — into your own space, for instance. Anyone who can read a board can duplicate it: a reader can always copy what is on screen.
Folders
Section titled “Folders”Folders file boards inside a space, nested up to four deep.
| Action | Needs |
|---|---|
| Create a folder or board | Edit on the folder it goes into (or a writer’s role at the root) |
| Rename | Edit |
| Move | Edit at both ends — and manage when the move changes which restricted folders are above it |
| Restrict | Manage — see restricted folders |
| Delete a folder | Only when it holds no folder and no live board |
Access granted on a folder reaches everything inside it. The folder list shows what you may open, plus folders that are only a way through to something inside them.
The trash
Section titled “The trash”Delete sends a board to the trash; anyone who can edit it can do that, and restore it. Delete forever takes manage — the board’s owner, or an admin of its organization — and so does emptying a space’s trash.
The trash lists what you may restore, and each entry says whether deleting it forever is yours to do. Boards are purged after 30 days in the trash.
An agent attributed to a trashed board keeps sweeping; its results are recorded but not drawn until the board is restored.
Archive and star
Section titled “Archive and star”Archived boards leave the main list without leaving the space. Starred boards are yours to find quickly; starring changes nothing for anyone else.