Office and map

The map is the office itself: where people walk, meet and work. This guide shows how to pick a ready-made map or compose your own, organize workstations and publish changes without interrupting the team.

Where to find it

Open Office & maps from the sidebar or from the Office menu, under Administration. What you see depends on your permissions:

• The Compose office permission unlocks the composer.
• Manage team unlocks the Office map with the Map library and Room access.

What comes from the catalog and what is yours

Team Connect maintains a catalog of ready-made rooms, furniture, objects, floors and complete maps. You use this catalog but don't edit it: new items arrive with product updates. On self-hosted installs, people with Manage license fetch the latest version under Map catalog, with Sync now.

What belongs to your company: the room layout, names, doors, placed objects, workstations and who owns each one.

Use a ready-made map from the library

1. Under Office map, browse the maps in the Map library.
2. Click Apply this map and confirm with Confirm and apply.

Workstations that exist in the new map keep their owners. Workstations that no longer exist are released and their owners get a notification.

Compose the office

Under Compose office, choose how to start:

• Build from scratch: enter the width and height in tiles. The office starts empty.
• Edit current office: start from the map the team uses today.

The composer opens full screen. The tools are on the left, with keyboard shortcuts:

On the right, the details panel shows the current selection. On a room you can change the Room name, drag its corners to resize it, or use Delete room (objects stay; delete them separately). On a door, use Remove door. You can also adjust wall colour and type.

Fix problems before publishing

The Problems panel points out anything that blocks publishing, such as a room with no door to an accessible area. Click a problem to jump to it. When two rooms touch, the Add a door on the shared wall button fixes it in one click. When everything is fine, the panel shows "All good: the office can be published."

Workstations

Each workstation takes 3x3 tiles: desk, chair and the space around them. In the composer you only place workstations. Each person picks their own with Claim workstation on the map, and the owner can personalize it under Customize workstation (direction, desk, chair and items on the desk).

If you remove a workstation that had an owner, it is released and the person gets a notification. The number of workstations is shown as the office's capacity.

Publish and live refresh

1. Click Publish to the office.
2. Confirm with Confirm and publish.

Everyone sees the new office right away, without reloading the page. Workstations that stay on the map keep their owners.

Go back to an earlier layout

If you applied a library map after composing your own, your company's layout is still kept. Under Compose office, use Edit saved layout to continue from it or Go back to this layout to publish it again.

Ambient sound

The office has synthesized sounds for footsteps, doors and people sitting down or standing up. Footsteps depend on each room's floor, which comes from the catalog. There is nothing to configure for the company: each person turns sounds on or off or adjusts the volume under Ambient, in the Office menu. Sounds are generated in the browser and nothing leaves the person's computer.

To learn how people use the map, see Map and moving around. To lock rooms and grant access, see Rooms and access.