Chapter 1: The app at a glance

In this chapter you’ll get to know the NappAI screens and where everything is. You don’t need to configure anything yet: the goal is to know where to go at each moment.

What you’ll learn

• What is in the side menu and what each screen is for.
• The difference between a credential and an API key.
• Where to check what your flows have done.

The home screen

When you sign in to NappAI you see Home. It summarises your plan usage (runs, projects and members), the recent activity of your flows, and a Tutorials and FAQs section.

More detail in The home screen.

The side menu

The side menu sits on the left of every screen except the flow editor. It is organised in three groups.

Working with flows

Option	What you’ll use it for
Projects	Create, open and organise your flows in folders. In NappAI every flow is a project. See Projects.
Templates	Start from a ready-made flow for a common case. You’ll see it in chapter 3.

Monitoring

Option	What you’ll use it for
Executions Logs	See every run of your flows, step by step, and find out why one failed. See Executions log.
LLMs Uptake	See how much your flows use language models. See LLMs Uptake.
Activity log	See who did what in the account. It only appears if your role allows it. See Activity log.

Configuration

Option	What you’ll use it for
API Keys	Let another application run your published flows. See API keys.
Credentials	Store access to the services your flows use: your Google account, an AI provider’s key, a bot token… See Credentials.
Environments	Store sets of variables, for example some values for testing and others for production. See Environments.
Execution profiles	Set limits on runs: maximum time, runs per minute, allowed components and models. It only appears if your role allows it. See Execution profiles.
My Skills	Create reusable instructions and knowledge for your agents. See My Skills.
Scheduler	Run a flow automatically on a date or at regular intervals. See Scheduler.
Voice Agent	Review your voice agents’ calls. See Voice agents.

Credential or API key

A credential is what NappAI uses to sign in to another service on your behalf, for example your Gmail. An API key is the other way round: another application uses it to get into NappAI and run your flows.

Your user menu

Your user sits at the bottom of the side menu. From there you reach your Profile, the Storage for your files, Notifications, the Theme and Language switches and Logout. If you belong to another account’s team, this is where you choose which account to work in.

What you can do depends on your role

If you work in someone else’s team, your role decides what you can do: build flows, only run them or only view them. When a button appears disabled, hover over it: NappAI tells you which permission you’re missing. See Roles and permissions.

Summary

• Projects and Templates are the starting point for building.
• Credentials connects NappAI to your services; API Keys lets other applications use your flows.
• Executions Logs is where you check what happened in each run.

In the next chapter you’ll open the editor and build your first flow.