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Permissions and Navigation

Wondering why a sidebar item appeared, disappeared, or went read-only? Scryer’s left navigation is permission-aware and state-aware — two users can see different sidebar items on the same server.

Top-Level Visibility

Section titled “Top-Level Visibility”
  • Movies, Series, Anime, Calendar, Wanted, and Settings are part of the signed-in navigation shell.
  • Catalog pages show data and actions based on library permissions such as view, manageTitles, and resolveImports.
  • You’ll see Activity only if you have manageTitles or resolveImports on at least one library.
  • You’ll see System in the sidebar only if you have the manageSystemSettings app permission.

In practice, this means one operator may have a broad catalog view but no access to imports or system pages, while another operator may see the same titles plus operational and administrative screens.

Movies, Series, And Anime Navigation

Section titled “Movies, Series, And Anime Navigation”

Each of Movies, Series, and Anime always shows its Library overview in the sidebar. Import appears beneath it only when Scryer has pending manual import work for that facet and you have the resolveImports library permission.

Settings appears under each facet when you have the manageCatalogSettings app permission and contains Library, General, Quality, Renaming, and Routing.

Wanted Navigation

Section titled “Wanted Navigation”

Wanted Items, Cutoff Unmet, and Pending are standard Wanted tabs for the catalog area. Wanted History appears only when you have the manageTitles library permission. An account that can browse the catalog but can’t manage titles may still see Wanted without seeing Wanted History.

Settings Navigation

Section titled “Settings Navigation”
  • Profile — available to any signed-in user.
  • General, Indexers, Download Clients, Plugins, Notifications, Recycle Bin — require the manageSystemSettings app permission.
  • Quality Profiles, Delay Profiles, Rules, Post-processing, Subtitles — require the manageCatalogSettings app permission.
  • Security — requires manageUsers.
  • Users — requires either manageUsers or managePermissions.

When someone reports a missing Settings page, the fastest check is to split the question into account-management permissions, system-wide permissions, and catalog-behavior permissions — Scryer surfaces those as different app permission groups.

Keyboard Shortcuts And Command Palette

Section titled “Keyboard Shortcuts And Command Palette”

Scryer’s command palette is a second navigation surface that follows the same permission and state rules as the sidebar.

  • Press Cmd+K on macOS or Ctrl+K on Windows and Linux to open or close the palette.
  • Press Shift twice to open it quickly from most non-text contexts.
  • The double-Shift shortcut is ignored while focus is inside a text input, textarea, select, or other editable field.

The palette lists commands for the routes your account can currently reach, including state-aware entries like facet Import pages that only appear when the underlying queue exists and you have the required permission.

Type at least two characters to also search visible catalog titles and jump straight to a title overview without navigating through a facet first.

For the header search field, metadata matches, and add-to-catalog flow, see Global Search.

Route-Level Guards

Section titled “Route-Level Guards”

Two route groups are broader than their sidebar labels:

  • Facet Import and facet Settings routes live inside the broader configuration area, so direct links are guarded by configuration access (manageCatalogSettings or manageSystemSettings).
  • The Security route shares the broader account-management guard used for Users, so direct links accept either manageUsers or managePermissions.

Those route guards matter mostly for direct links, restored browser state, or bookmarked pages. The sidebar remains the best picture of what an account is expected to reach during normal navigation.

Section titled “Related Concepts”
  • Permissions — access grants that determine which sidebar items, catalog actions, and settings pages you can reach
  • Facet — the behavior category (Movies, Series, Anime) that organizes catalog pages and library items in the sidebar
  • Library — the boundary where library-level permissions like view, manageTitles, and resolveImports are applied
  • Installation — first-run flow including initial user setup and permission configuration
  • Settings — where app permissions, user accounts, and permission groups are managed