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# Custom layouts

> Split your work area, add extra panels, and share layouts with other users

Every service panel has a **work area** you can split into extra pages and panels. Use this to keep Run, radio, calls, and units visible at the same time, then save or share that layout.

## Work area tabs

On Police, Fire, EMS, and DOT:

| Tab | Default content |
| - | - |
| **Home** | Assigned call, plus units and groups on the side |
| **Map** | Live ER:LC map |
| **Units** | Active units table, plus groups |

The Law panel is a single work area with hearings, warrants, licences, bonds, jail, and unpaid fines. Dispatch has its own work area with calls, units, radio, and the call editor.

Each of these (except Map) is a layout you can customise independently.

## Add extra panels

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open a layout tab" icon="table-cells">
    Go to **Home**, **Units**, Law, or Dispatch — not the map.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Click +" icon="plus">
    Use the **+** control on a layout panel.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Pick a panel and place it" icon="arrows-up-down-left-right">
    Choose what to add, then place it above, below, left, or right of the current panel.
  </Step>
</Steps>

What you can add depends on the panel. Common options include **Run**, **Records**, **Calls**, **Active Units**, **Unit Groups**, **Radio**, **Tone Board**, **Signal Manager**, **Timers**, **Live Map**, and your criminal code / 10-codes. Dispatch can also add the **Call Editor**, **Call History**, and **Radio Quick-Actions**. Law can add **Pending Hearings**, **Warrants**, **Licences**, and **Bonds**.

<Tip>
  Drag splitters to resize. Close a panel if you do not need it; use the empty-pane control to restore the original card.
</Tip>

## Save, share, and load

Open the Melonly CAD logo menu → **Layout**.

| Action | What it does |
| - | - |
| **Apply Preset** | Dispatch only. Switch to a built-in dispatch arrangement |
| **Save Layout** | Store the current split under a name for this panel |
| **Saved Layouts** | Load or delete a layout you saved |
| **Share Layout** | Copy a layout code you can send to someone else |
| **Load Layout Code** | Paste a code to apply someone else's layout |

Saved layouts stay on the panel you saved them from (for example, Police Home is separate from Police Units and from Dispatch).

<Note>
  Sharing a layout shares the arrangement of panels, not live call or unit data.
</Note>

## Call editor layout

The call editor can also be split — for example, call details next to assigned units. That layout is remembered per editor and works with [Auto Save](/CAD/User/dispatch#call-editor-auto-save) on Dispatch.

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