--- title: "What a circle page shows" description: "Opening a circle in Talkspirit gives you one page with up to nine tabs. Four are always there, five depend on your organisation's settings, and a side rail lists the circle's roles and sub-circles." category: structure-governance section: chart-and-circles type: Reference lastUpdated: 2026-08-05 locale: en canonical: https://support.talkspirit.com/en/structure-governance/circle-page-tabs --- # What a circle page shows ## What a circle page shows Opening a circle gives you one page, and everything the circle holds sits behind one of the tabs across its top. Four of those tabs are on every circle. Five more appear only if your organisation has switched them on, or if you have access to the app behind them, so the strip on your screen can be shorter than the one described here. ![The top of a circle page: the breadcrumb, the circle name, and the tab strip reading General, Members, Working agreements, Attachments, Metrics, Checklists, Projects, Goals and Meetings](/images/structure-governance/circle-page-tabs/01-circle-page-tab-strip.png) **Talkspirit does not call this page a dashboard.** The product keeps that word for one specific screen: **Circles dashboard** is a tab in Structure settings, and all it holds is a searchable list of every circle in the organisation with an **Add Circle** button. It is where an administrator creates a circle, not where anyone reads one. [Configuring circle settings for my organisation](/structure-governance/how-to-configure-circle-settings-for-my-organization) covers that page and the tabs beside it. ![The Circles dashboard tab in Structure settings, showing a card titled Circles list with a search box, an Add Circle button, and the organisation's circles listed alphabetically](/images/structure-governance/circle-page-tabs/02-circles-dashboard-settings-tab.png) ## Which tabs does every circle have? **General**, **Members**, **Working agreements** and **Attachments**. These four are on every circle in every organisation, and no setting removes them. ## Which tabs are conditional? Five more, each on its own condition: - **Metrics** appears when your organisation has switched metrics on. It does not need the Holacracy add-on. - **Checklists** appears when your organisation has the Holacracy add-on *and* has switched checklists on. - **Projects**, **Goals** and **Meetings** appear when you can open those apps at all. Two things follow from that. The strip is a configured list rather than a fixed one, so a colleague can see a tab you do not. And a tab you cannot see is not a restriction on the circle: it is your organisation's configuration, or your access to another app. ## What is on the General tab? The circle's own fields, one card each: **Purpose**, **Domains**, **Accountabilities** and **Policies**, followed by any custom fields your administrator has added, and closing with **Relations**. A field with nothing in it says so rather than disappearing, which is why an empty circle still shows every card. [Circles in Talkspirit](/structure-governance/circle-overview) explains what each field is for and who may change it. The General tab is also the only tab with a side rail down the right. The rail holds two things: - A **Map**, a small chart centred on this circle. You can collapse it to a single bar, or expand it to fill the window. - A **Composition** and **Activity** pair. Composition lists **Roles** with a count, each role showing who fills it or **Vacant**, and a **Core** chip on the roles that came from a main-role template. **Sub-circles** follows, also with a count. Members of the circle who hold no role sit at the foot of the Roles list under **No role attributed**, not in a section of their own. Activity shows what has changed recently. > **Note:** there is no separate "Main roles" section in the rail. Core roles are pinned to the top of the single Roles list instead. ## What do the other always-on tabs show? **Members** lists everyone assigned to the circle, whether through a role or with no role at all. The columns are Name, Roles, Scope and Time spent, and a member who is not a decision maker of the circle carries a **Non-Decision Maker** marker. The row menu is where you change someone's circle admin or decision-maker status, or remove them from the circle. **Working agreements** lists the circle's own documents, working agreements and policies among them. The columns are Name, Type, Role and Publish date, and a document nobody has published yet reads **Not published** rather than showing a blank date. **Sort**, **Group** and a search box sit above the table. ![The Working agreements tab of a circle, showing a table with Name, Type, Role and Publish date columns and one policy row that is not published](/images/structure-governance/circle-page-tabs/03-circle-working-agreements-tab.png) **Attachments** holds what the circle has pinned to itself: files you upload, grouped by kind, and links to documents that live elsewhere. You can read it as a grid, a list or a table. ## What do the conditional tabs show? **Metrics** and **Checklists** each list the circle's own items and let you record a value or tick an item without leaving the page. Opening one slides its detail out over the tab. Both also offer **Bring to a meeting**, which is how an item reaches a tactical meeting's agenda. **Projects** stacks two blocks: the circle's projects, with a **New project** button, and the tasks attached to the circle underneath. Clicking a project swaps the list for that project's board without taking you off the circle. **Goals** lists the goals the circle owns, and **Meetings** lists its meetings. All three are windows onto the other apps, filtered to this circle, so what you can do in them follows those apps' own rules. ## What can I do from the page itself? The breadcrumb above the circle name walks you back up through the parent circles to the top of the chart. Beside the tabs sit a translation control and a **More actions** menu. What that menu offers depends on your standing in the circle. **Copy URL** is always there. **Assign member** appears if you may assign roles, and **Add role** and **Add sub-circle** appear if you are a decision maker of the circle. **Edit** and **Move circle** cover the circle's own fields and its place in the chart. **Settings** appears if you may manage the circle's settings, and **Delete** sits at the foot, marked as destructive. > **Note:** on the circle at the top of your chart, Edit saves straight away and Move and Delete are absent. On every other circle, those entries open a proposal for the parent circle to decide, even though the menu still calls the first one Edit. Being an organisation administrator does not by itself put the governance entries in that menu. [Decision makers in a circle](/structure-governance/what-is-a-decision-maker-of-a-circle) explains why, and [Circle Admins](/structure-governance/who-are-circle-admins) covers the settings side. ## What's Next? - [Circles in Talkspirit](/structure-governance/circle-overview) - [Personalising a circle's settings](/structure-governance/personalizing-your-circles-settings) - [Decision makers in a circle](/structure-governance/what-is-a-decision-maker-of-a-circle) - [Configuring circle settings for my organisation](/structure-governance/how-to-configure-circle-settings-for-my-organization)