# Using the mobile app

Sign in to the Open Core HR mobile app and use its main areas.

The HR app has five tabs. Each feature has one place, so you always find it in the same tab.

- **Today** shows your workday, your shortcuts and the cards your role needs, such as your next customer visit, your team's attendance or approvals waiting for you.
- **Calendar** combines your meetings and events.
- **Work** lists everything you can open, grouped into Workday, Pay & expenses, Your records and Your team. Use the search box to find a feature by name.
- **Inbox** holds approvals you can decide (**To do**), notifications (**Updates**) and the status of your own requests (**My requests**). The tab shows a count while something is waiting.
- **Me** holds your profile, appearance, language and sign-out.

![Today shows your workday, shortcuts and the cards your role needs.](https://media.czappstudio.com/screens/mobile/today/light-9532238cee-1206.webp)

When chat, calls, Outlook Email or the company feed are enabled for you, **Connect** on Today opens them together, with **People** for finding colleagues.

## On a tablet

The app runs on Android tablets and iPads with a layout made for the wider screen. The five tabs sit in a bar down the side, and lists stay in view while you work: choose a request, a chat or a setting and it opens beside the list. Choose another to replace it, or **Close** to put it away. Today and Work use two columns, and Calendar shows the whole month next to the day you picked. Turn the tablet either way and the app keeps your place.

## Shortcuts

Your administrator chooses the shortcuts you start with for your role. To change them, choose **Edit** beside **Shortcuts** on Today, pick up to four in the order you want, and save. The same choice appears as favourites in Work and on the web dashboard. **Use my profile's** returns to your administrator's choice.

![Work lists every feature you can open, grouped by area.](https://media.czappstudio.com/screens/mobile/work/light-e1572e5211-1206.webp)

Shortcuts only open features you already have access to. If you lose access to a feature, its shortcut disappears.

## Sync status

The cloud button at the top of Today shows whether everything you recorded on this phone has reached the server:

- **Green**: everything is synced.
- **Amber with a number**: changes are saved on the phone and waiting to send, for example attendance or field visits recorded without signal.
- **Red**: the server refused a change. Open the sync sheet, then open the item to correct it.
- **Grey**: the phone is offline.

Saved changes send automatically when the connection returns. Choose **Try now** in the sync sheet to send them immediately. A waiting change is not confirmed until the server accepts it, so keep the app installed and signed in until the button turns green.

## Appearance

In **Me**, choose **System** to follow your phone's light or dark setting, or choose **Light** or **Dark** to keep one appearance.