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Navigating a specific Building

Updated over 2 weeks ago

The Building Editor is where your office truly takes shape. Once you click into a building, you're in full control. Shaping how spaces are organized, how rooms are managed, and how your setup reaches employees. It's a layered environment, built around the idea that every change you make is yours to review before it goes live. Whether you're setting up a new floor or fine-tuning an add-on, everything has its place here. This article helps you navigate the Buildings tab with confidence.

Overview

The Overview tab is your first stop. A clean, floor-by-floor snapshot of your entire building. At a glance, you see opening days, workspace and meeting room counts, and a map tile per floor. But it's more than just a summary. From here you can add floors, edit your building's core settings (name, time zone, location), and kick off the Review & Publish flow to push your latest changes live. Click any floor to get quick actions: adjust the floor number, jump into the Map Editor, or delete it. Clicking the map tile takes you straight there too.

Workspaces

The Workspaces tab is all about the areas where your people actually work. Every workspace represents a physical space, a desk zone, an open area, a dedicated team spot and this tab is where you define and manage them. Capacity is central here: you control how many people can use each area, with that data flowing directly into booking rules and reporting. Set the right booking policy per workspace (Ad hoc usage, Desk booking, or Area booking), jump straight to the map for any floor, and add new workspaces or floors as your office evolves.

Meeting rooms

The Meeting rooms tab gives you full control over every (bookable) room in your building. See room names, capacities, and policies at a glance and click any room to fine-tune it: update the name, capacity, room policy, calendar link, photo, and equipment suitability. A map icon on each room takes you straight to the right floor in the Map Editor.

Need to update multiple rooms at once? Use the Import button to make bulk changes without going room by room. You can also add floors directly from here.

Review & Publish

Once you start making changes in the Building Editor, the Review & Publish flow is always within reach. It actively checks your building setup for conflicts or issues as you go. You're never publishing blind! When you're ready, it lets you push all your changes live in one go. Batch your updates, review with confidence, and publish when everything looks right.

Add-ons

If your environment includes add-ons, they show up directly in the building view, configured at the building level, right where you need them.

Add-ons are paid service by Mapiq and can require specific integrations to be set up. In case you have a specific add-on enabled, it will be visualized underneath the Add-ons section.

Interested? Contact your Mapiq representative to discuss the possibilities.

Kiosk

Place an interactive kiosk panel in your office and let employees check live workspace and meeting room availability on the spot. The Kiosk add-on is where you configure what the panel displays and pair it to the physical device. Availability is driven by sensor data, so it always reflects what's actually happening in the space.

Sensors

The Sensors add-on puts your entire sensor network in one place. Commission sensors to specific locations in your building, monitor their status, and view a live map visualization that shows what each sensor is registering at its location. It gives you a precise, real-time read of your building's occupancy.

App Links

Make Mapiq instantly accessible anywhere in your office. The App Links add-on lets you create deep links into the app and generate QR codes to go with them. Perfect for signage, desks, or meeting rooms!

Controls

With the Controls add-on, you manage light and temperature directly through Mapiq. It requires an active integration with a Building Management System (BMS), but once set up, your physical environment is just a tap away.

Behind the scenes

  • All changes you make are saved as a draft. Employees do not see them until you publish.

  • You can batch multiple changes in one session before publishing, this keeps your setup consistent and avoids partial updates.

  • Workspace capacity feeds directly into booking rules and Insights reports. Building-level capacity is automatically calculated from the sum of all capacities set at floor, area, and desk level. You can only override it manually but only no capacity is set lower in the hierarchy.

  • You need Building Admin rights or higher (Subscription Admin) to make changes in the Building Editor.

  • Room calendar links (Microsoft or Google) are set per room and must be active before bookings sync with your calendar system.

  • All add-ons are paid features and may require additional integration work. Contact your Mapiq representative to discuss the possibilities.


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