The preview pane
The preview pane — the document tabs beside Files, Review and Index; the PDF, Text and Summary views of a document; and the full-screen pop-up viewer.
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tabs, the right-hand side of the screen is the preview pane. It holds a tab for each document you have open, and shows the document you have selected in one of three views. This page describes the pane, its views and the full-screen pop-up viewer; for the buttons above the document itself, see Previewing documents.
On the Index tab the pane shares its space with the bundle and download panels, so it is hidden while either of those is open.
On the Files and Review tabs, the button on the divider between the list and the pane collapses the pane and brings it back.
Document tabs
A strip of tabs runs across the top of the pane, one per open document. Each tab shows the document's file name, shortened with an ellipsis if it is long; hover over the tab to see the name in full.
A tab with no close button
The document you last selected in the list. There is only ever one of these, and opening another document from the list — by clicking a row, or by moving through rows with the arrow keys — replaces it. It cannot be closed; to put it away, open a different document.
A tab with a close button (×)
A document opened alongside the one you have selected. Hovering the button shows Close tab.
"Click on a file row to view it"
Nothing is open yet. Click a row in the list to fill the pane.
"File not found in this workspace."
The document behind this tab is not in the matter you are looking at.
To open a document alongside the one you already have open, middle-click its row on the Review tab — it appears as an extra tab with its own close button. Middle-clicking a row on the Files tab opens the full-screen pop-up viewer instead of adding a tab.
Tabs are kept only for the session. They stay as you move between the Files, Review and Index tabs, but reloading BriefTech clears them, and so does switching to another matter.
Views of a document
Each open document has three views, chosen from the tab strip directly above it.
The document itself, with the preview toolbar above it — see Previewing documents.
Text
The text BriefTech extracted from the document, one page at a time, with its own page controls above it.
Summary
What the Organise agent found in this document — a Summary heading, a Key Dates heading, or both, depending on what it produced.
The page you are on carries across the PDF and Text views, so switching between them keeps your place. The Text view can have fewer pages than the PDF view; when it does, switching to it lands you on its last page rather than an empty one.
The Text view has three controls of its own, above the text:
Previous page
Go to the previous page. Greyed out on the first page.
Page box, and the count beside it
The box shows the current page; the count beside it shows the total, or a question mark when BriefTech does not (yet) know the total. Type a page number and press Enter, or click away from the box, to jump to it. Press Escape to leave the box as it was.
Next page
Go to the next page. Greyed out on the last page. While the count still shows a question mark the button stays clickable: the page number goes up, but the text on screen does not change.
A document BriefTech has extracted no text from shows the word loading in place of the text, with a page count of ?. The Text view looks the same whether the text is still being extracted or none could be extracted, so if it has not changed after a while, try the PDF or Summary view.
The Summary view is empty for a document the Organise agent has not analysed — see AI agents.
When a document does not appear
Two of the things the PDF view can show instead of the document mean it is not going to appear on its own:
Preview unavailable for this file type — BriefTech has no version of this file it can show in the preview. The Text and Summary views may still have something for it.
Click to preview — the document is about 10.5 MB or larger (the size BriefTech shows in the Size column), so it is waiting for you to ask for it rather than loading on its own. This is not an error; see Previewing documents.
Separately, if BriefTech cannot open a document at all, a message reading Failed to load document appears briefly. The tab stays open, so you can switch to the Text or Summary view.
The full-screen pop-up viewer
Middle-clicking a row on the Files tab opens the document in a window that fills the screen, instead of putting it in the pane. Inside it the document has the same PDF, Text and Summary views as the pane.
The window takes the document's file name as its title. Down the left it lists the documents from the same view — click a name to switch to it, or use the button beside the title to hide the list. Down the right is the document's properties, grouped under Identity, Document Details, Organisation, Processing Status and System Metadata; Expand all opens every group at once. Close the window with the × in the top right.
Up to three buttons sit in the top right, to the left of the ×. They belong to the window itself; the buttons directly above the document inside it are the preview toolbar's — see Previewing documents. Each is an icon on its own, so hover to see what it does.
Download Original File
Downloads the document in the format it was uploaded in.
Download PDF
Downloads the PDF BriefTech made of the document. It is not always there.
Move to bin
Moves the document to the bin, after asking you to confirm. It is hidden for a document that is already there. Its hover text reads Move (1) to bin — the number is always 1, because the window acts only on the document you are looking at.
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