Signing in and the Dashboard.

Every venue gets its own address in the form your-venue.mlttp.com. Open it in a browser and you are looking at the admin panel: the same screen on a phone in the car park, a tablet at the front desk, or a laptop at home. There is nothing to install for the admin side. This chapter covers the login, the layout shared by every page, and the Dashboard you land on.

Signing in

The login card shows your venue's logo and name once you have uploaded a logo in Settings; before that it shows the Multitap mark. Because you open the panel at your own subdomain, the venue is already known, so the form asks only for Email and Password. If you ever open the panel from a plain IP address instead, a third field, Venue ID, appears so you can type it.

Press Sign In. The button reads Signing in… while it checks, then the panel opens on the Dashboard. A wrong email or password shows Invalid credentials under the title and the card gives a short shake. If the panel cannot reach the server at all you see Connection error. Please try again.

You stay signed in for 24 hours on that device. If the session lapses while you are working, the login card reappears over the page you were on; sign in again and carry on. Sign Out at the bottom of the sidebar ends the session immediately.

The layout

Every page shares the same frame.

Header

The Multitap logo and your venue name sit at the top, with a menu button on the left. How the sidebar behaves depends on the width of the screen. On a laptop or desktop it is open in full and the menu button collapses it to icons. On a tablet it shows as a rail of icons and the menu button opens the full menu over the page. On a phone it is hidden, and the menu button slides it in as a drawer.

Themes

The admin panel comes in seven themes. Pit Wall (carbon black with signal red) is the default, Multitap Livery is asphalt with hi-vis yellow and square edges, and Night Race is midnight navy with timing amber. Race Day has light surfaces and deep blue for bright venues and reception desks, High Contrast has bright text, clear outlines and larger labels for easier reading, Endurance is slate and cool blue, and Clubhouse is warm charcoal and champagne. Pick one under Settings › Venue › Admin theme. It saves the moment you click and applies to everyone who signs in to your venue's panel. The theme only changes the admin panel: your public screens, booking pages and emails keep your venue colour. The screenshots in this guide use Multitap Livery.

Sidebar

The sidebar is the map of this guide. Its items are grouped under six headings: Race control (Dashboard, Launcher, Groups, Open Track), Competition (Leagues, Challenges, Leaderboard), Results (Drivers, Laps, Import, Reports), Content (Cars & Tracks, Content Sync, Sponsors), Marketing (Events, Bookings, Email, Discord, Links) and Venue (API, Settings). Each item is a chapter. Leagues and Bookings carry a Soon badge and are greyed out until they switch on for every venue. On Cloud Lite the sidebar keeps only Leaderboard under Competition, Drivers, Laps and Import under Results, Links under Marketing and Settings under Venue.

If you leave a page with unsaved changes, the panel asks You have unsaved changes. Leave without saving? and gives you Cancel and Leave. Enter confirms leaving; Escape stays.

Stats bar

The bar along the bottom of every page refreshes every thirty seconds. After the Live badge come the live numbers: Sims connected right now, Sessions running, and Groups, the group races and traffic sessions in progress. Broadcast PCs are not counted as sims. Then your inventory: Drivers, Cars, Tracks and Laps, counted across every game you have enabled. On a phone the two sets sit on two rows.

Messages

Short confirmations appear as a toast at the bottom of the screen for three seconds, coloured green for success, red for errors and amber for warnings. Anything that needs a decision appears as a confirmation with Cancel and an action button; destructive actions get a red button. Enter and Escape work on all of them.

Dashboard

The Dashboard is the page you land on. It refreshes itself every thirty seconds and is designed to be glanced at. Today always means your venue's own day and hours, set from your venue's location, wherever you happen to be looking from.

The header

Under the title are today's date and the time at your venue. On the right, Customize dashboard lets you choose which cards and sections your team sees and which measure the hourly chart shows first; saved choices apply to everyone signed in to your venue, on every device. Next to it a chip counts the rigs on track right now, Check all rigs runs a rig check on every connected rig at once, and Launch session takes you to the Launcher.

Today

Rigs

A card for every rig with its name and its state: On track, Ready, Idle, Not ready or Offline. A rig on track shows the driver and, for a timed session, a bar with the time left. Launcher at the top of the panel opens the Launcher page.

Who played today

Today's activity per game, then a table of every driver who played, with their games, what they did (laps, traffic or just a rig login), their laps, traffic scores, rig time and when they were last seen. A driver still at a rig is marked Logged in.

Activity by hour

A bar for each hour of today, so you can see when the venue was busy. The Show list switches the bars between drivers, rig minutes, laps and traffic scores, and a note names the peak hour.

Recent activity

The latest activity, newest first: when it happened, the driver, the game and the kind of activity, the result (a lap time, marked invalid when the lap did not count, or a traffic score in points), the car and the track. All laps opens the Laps page. For a TV, the activity feed leaderboard display calls out records, personal bests and first laps as they happen.

Needs attention

Either a green All clear or a short list of links, each taking you to the page where the fix lives.

Below the links come the most recent launch failures, up to five. When a rig cannot start a game because the car or track is missing on that PC, it reports the failure here: which rig, what kind of launch, and what was missing. A rig that appears here repeatedly needs content copied to it, which Content Sync does for every rig at once. Two other reasons show up here in plain words: Content sync in progress when someone tried to launch on a rig that is copying content, and Motion off: followed by the fix when a motion rig started without D-BOX motion. A group race or traffic server that fails to start is listed here too, as Race server, with Show log for the details.

System

Four lines with a coloured dot each.

• Telemetry tells you when the last lap arrived from any rig: green within five minutes, amber up to thirty, red beyond that, and grey if nothing has ever been received. If rigs are busy and this line is red, the in-game app on the rigs is not talking to the server.
• Email says in a few words whether your email is working, for example Email: sending as Demo Lounge <[email protected]>, last email 3m ago. Click it to open the Email page; Chapter 14 lists every state.
• Discord does the same for Discord, for example Discord: posting to #bot-tests, last post 4h ago. Click it to open the Discord page; Chapter 15 lists every state.
• Game servers shows how many server slots are in use across the platform, for example 0 of 80 slots in use. Group races and traffic sessions each take one. You will rarely need to think about it; it is here so support can see it at a glance.

Global activity and upcoming events

At the bottom, Global activity shows the latest laps from venues around the world on VenueLaps, and Upcoming events lists events on VenueLaps, with a link to plan your own.