---
title: "Tour of the interface: the shell and the tabs"
description: "Stage 1 of the interface tour — the top bar with the logo, the search box, Recent, the bell and the user menu, the tab strip with its 19 possible tabs in order, and how tabs remember where you were."
type: "tutorial"
audience: [network-manager, publisher, advertiser, admin]
keywords: [interface, navigation, tabs, tab strip, top bar, shell, bottom bar, more sheet, help and support, referral program]
ui_path: "Account"
---

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# Tour of the interface: the shell and the tabs

**Goal:** in a couple of minutes, know what the account shell holds — the top bar and its
controls, and the tab strip with every tab it can carry — so the rest of the tour has a map.
This is one stage of the [Tour of the interface](https://epom.com/ad-server/docs/start/ui-tour.md); the tour needs no data and changes nothing.

## Steps

1. **Orient on the shell.** After signing in you land in the account area: a top bar with a
   tab strip underneath. In the top bar, the logo (it takes you back to your home section)
   sits at the start, the search box in the middle, and your controls at the end — **Recent**,
   the notification bell (only while you have alerts) and the user menu. Two more icons
   appear only when they apply: a **Referral program** shortcut, for roles that may use the
   referral program, and a **Help & support** link, when your network administrator has set a
   support page. On a phone the strip becomes a bottom bar with four tabs and a **More** sheet for
   the rest.
   ![Account shell](https://epom.com/docs-images/ad-server/ui-tour/shell-overview.webp)
2. **Walk the tabs.** The strip can hold 19 tabs, in this order: **Dashboard**,
   **Publishers**, **Header Bidding**, **Advertisers**, **Media Library**, **Analytics**, **Notes**,
   **AI assistant**, **Traffic Quality**, **RTB**, **Conversion Actions**, **Shares**, **Templates**,
   **Users**, **Pending sites**, **Pending banners**, **Billing**, **Referral program** and
   **Preferences**. A role sees only the tabs whose permissions it holds, and **Notes** only once
   there is a note for you — the next section lists the permission behind each. A strip wider than the window scrolls sideways behind a
   **›** button at its end. Tabs remember where you were: leave Advertisers while editing a
   campaign, come back, and you return to that campaign, not the section root.

## What next

- [Tour of the interface: trees, grids and entity pages](https://epom.com/ad-server/docs/start/ui-tour-browse-entities.md) — the next stage
- [Tour of the interface](https://epom.com/ad-server/docs/start/ui-tour.md) — the whole tour, which tabs your role gets and the gotchas
- [UI navigation reference](https://epom.com/ad-server/docs/reference/ui-navigation.md) — every route and shortcut