Apptifi Product Tour: Getting Around the App

Hi, and welcome to Apptifi. Apptifi helps you schedule, order and keep track of Lumen Internet on Demand bandwidth, so your network can scale up when you need it and back down when you don't. In this first lesson, we'll sign in, take a quick tour of the main menu, and look at a few handy controls. To sign in, enter the email address your administrator set up for you, then your password, and click Sign in.

If it's your first time, you may be asked to choose a new password before you continue. After you sign in, Apptifi opens on the Calendar. Everything else lives in the menu on the left. The tab you're on is highlighted, and you can jump to any other tab with a single click.

The first group is all about planning. Calendar shows your scheduled bandwidth events by month, week or day. Events lists the same events in a table, where you can sort them and link them to circuits. Templates saves reusable schedules.

And Pricing estimates what your schedule will cost. Order is where you turn your scheduled events into a Lumen order. Inventory tracks your active circuits and any orders that are still in flight. Costs shows your estimated bandwidth spend over recent weeks.

Reports gives you a usage report you can review. And Expense Management brings together billing, contracts and related spend tools. Blackout lets you set periods when automatic bandwidth changes are paused, such as maintenance windows. Audit Log records every change the scheduler made, or skipped.

Circuit Groups lets you bundle circuits together, so one event can cover several sites. Security covers threat intelligence, security posture and notifications. EoD Orders is for Ethernet on Demand circuits. IoD API shows calendar sync and API activity.

And Settings holds your preferences and account details. At the bottom of the menu you'll see the email address you're signed in with, along with a few small buttons. The sun and moon button switches between dark mode and light mode. Pick whichever is easier on your eyes.

Apptifi remembers your choice on this browser. The question mark button opens the keyboard shortcuts list. You can also press the question mark key at any time to bring it up. For example, pressing R refreshes the view you're on.

When you're done, click Sign out to end your session. That's the tour. In the next lesson, we'll take a closer look at the Calendar and create our first bandwidth event.