Overview#
Operators arrive at a workspace with a task in mind, not a menu map: Cross-Domain Workflow Launchpads turn each major domain home page into a place to start work from intent, with guided actions and bridges to neighbouring capabilities.
The module reworks the landing pages of six domains, evidence, entities, operations, inventory, digital footprint, and body-worn camera, so each opens with a launchpad of tiles for that domain's most common workflows. Selecting a tile opens a guided workflow dialog, and a bridge panel on every page links the current domain to related capabilities in adjacent domains. New operators, investigators, and administrators start tasks by answering "what do I want to do?" instead of hunting through navigation menus.
Key Features#
- Intent-First Launch Tiles: Each domain landing page presents its most common workflows as clearly labelled tiles, so users start from the task they want to accomplish rather than from a navigation tree.
- Guided Workflow Dialogs: Every tile opens a guided dialog that walks the user through the workflow step by step, using one consistent dialog experience shared across all domains.
- Bridge Panels Between Domains: Each domain page carries a bridge panel linking to adjacent capabilities, for example from evidence to cases or from digital footprint to entities, so related work is one click away.
- Six Domains Covered: The launchpad pattern spans the evidence, entities, operations, inventory, digital footprint, and body-worn camera home pages.
- Body-Worn Camera Parity: The body-worn camera application was brought to parity with the same launchpad pattern, so camera programme workflows start the same way as every other domain.
- Consistent Cross-Domain Experience: Because the launchpad and dialog experience is shared, a workflow learned in one domain transfers directly to every other.
- Full Localisation: Launchpads and their dialogs are fully localised, including Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, and Polish additions alongside the platform's existing languages.
Use Cases#
- New Operator Onboarding: A new operator lands on the entities page and starts a resolve-duplicates workflow immediately, without knowing the menu structure or where the deduplication tools live.
- Investigator Pivoting Across Domains: An investigator reviewing an evidence item jumps to the related operations picture in one click through the bridge panel, keeping the thread of the investigation intact.
- Body-Worn Camera Programme Administration: A camera programme administrator opens the body-worn camera home page and starts routine workflows from launch tiles, in the same way as every other domain.
- Multilingual Teams: An analyst working in Dutch or Portuguese uses the same guided launchpads in their own language, with no capability hidden behind untranslated screens.
Integration#
The launchpads sit on top of the platform's existing domain capabilities rather than replacing them: evidence tiles lead into digital evidence management workflows, entity tiles into entity resolution and review, operations tiles into the common operating picture, inventory tiles into asset and stock management, digital footprint tiles into online-presence analysis, and body-worn camera tiles into recording and analytics workflows. Bridge panels connect these same capabilities to one another, so the module acts as the connective tissue between domain workspaces. Every workflow started from a tile runs under the signed-in user's normal permissions and organisation scope.
Open Standards#
- WCAG 2.2: Launch tiles, bridge panels, and guided dialogs are designed for accessible operation, with keyboard navigation and clear labelling consistent with the platform accessibility baseline.
- IETF BCP 47: Language selection for localised launchpad content uses standard language tags, so translations resolve predictably across all supported languages.
- Unicode: All localised tile and dialog text, including Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, and Polish content, is stored and rendered as Unicode for correct display in every language.
- OAuth 2.0 and RFC 7519: Workflows launched from tiles execute through the platform's authenticated API using token-based sessions, so the launchpads never expose an action beyond what the signed-in user is authorised to perform.
Last Reviewed: 2026-07-16 Last Updated: 2026-07-16