14 articles about Platform Shell, in reading order.
Parsware Platform
The first time anybody signs in to a new Parsware tenant, it starts with an email: the welcome message for its first administrator. We followed one from the inbox to an open app: the link, choosing a password, the link refusing a second use, signing in, and the apps list.
Parsware Platform
Most of a working day in a Parsware app is spent in a view, the list of one table's records. Sort by one column or several, search, build a filter with And and Or, select records, open one, save it, and delete what you no longer need.
Parsware Platform
In Parsware every environment has its own web address, so moving from Development to Test is opening Test's address, not choosing from a menu. Bookmark each one, and two browser tabs can never be confused about which environment they are in.
Parsware Platform
Every Parsware record has an owner, a person or a team, and the owner decides who can see it once access rules are set up. Hand a record on from its Owner field on the form, pick User or Team, and save.
Parsware Platform
When a Parsware business process needs a person, it sends them a task. My tasks lists yours; opening one takes it and shows what it is about, and Decide finishes it with an outcome such as Approve or Reject, after which the process moves on by itself.
Parsware Platform
The charts on a Parsware dashboard do more than sit there. Hover over a bar or a slice for its exact number, and select a legend entry to hide that series, so the rest can be read on its own. Here is what each one tells you, and the one thing to watch for.
Parsware Platform
A report in Persian has two parts. Its words read right to left because of how the page is drawn. Its digits and dates are Persian because of who reads it: the same report prints 4,200.00 and 2026/09/29 for one reader and ۴٬۲۰۰٫۰۰ and ۷ مهر ۱۴۰۵ for another.
Parsware Platform
When a screen needs something tables, forms and views can't say, you write it in React. A custom app is built on your own machine with two downloads from the help site, packed into one file, uploaded once, and opened from the Shell like any other app. We built a visitor board for reception.
Parsware Platform
Every account that signs in to the Shell or the Admin Control Center needs an authenticator app as well as a password. We followed Alex Morgan's first sign-in: the setup screen, a code refused because it was out of date, ten recovery codes, and the next sign-in asking for a code.
Parsware Platform
A new phone doesn't need an administrator. Alex Morgan signed in with a recovery code, moved two-step sign-in to the new phone from Sign-in security, and got ten new codes. For the person with no codes left, an administrator resets the authenticator and the next sign-in sets one up again.
Parsware Platform
Parsware runs in seven languages, and two of them read right to left. Choose Persian or Arabic and the maker portal, the designers and every app mirror, while the names and data you typed in English keep their own direction. We went through the capital planning sample in both, and fixed what right to left got wrong along the way.
Parsware Platform
Dark or light, a neutral theme, an accent colour, a font and a text size: five choices each person makes for themselves, in one dialog, and every screen of every app follows. We changed all five on the capital planning app and looked at what moved.
Parsware Platform
Every screen in Parsware has a Help link in the same corner, and it opens the page about that screen, not the front of a manual. It opens it in your language, too: a Persian maker gets the Persian page, an Arabic reader the Arabic one. We followed it from the maker portal and from an app, in three languages.
Parsware Platform
The people who use Parsware apps never see three products. They sign in once to the Platform Shell, and every app in the environment is a tile on its home page: model-driven apps, drawn Studio apps and custom React apps, all in the same page, the same top bar and the same session.
