# Discover the Console

## What is the Console?

Crystal’s Console allows users to set up the advisor autonomously. Via the Console, the project owner and the admins can manage permissions, integrate data sources, and create topics in minutes. 

The Console is the crystal area where Admins are likely to spend most of their time, because it’s here where topics are created, edited and prepared for the conversation.

Here the Admins can also add and manage a Crystal project’s users.

## Access the Console

To access the Console, an Admin user will click on the label **Console** in the profile menu.

![](https://crystal-1aa63e8abb35.intercom-attachments-7.com/i/o/368025993/fe86e33a7ccdeafd2391e0f8/TRpoupUOL_-_7LdpF3zjG2rQZ3cD2F_Kwmvn38kK6x8aXLtmV9kZkY1rbcvzf3Wmn9I7KY7efylEel076-bc5E_xZKEAvIGU0gWHS8yym-hj-NAUi6IAc9Vg_7pnINZUcfVXPEUI)

## Discover the Console

The Console is divided into two areas: the **Topic area** and the **User area.**

The **Topic area** is where the created topics are shown and an Admin can go to add a new topic or to edit an existing one.

From here, admins can also access the management of entities (an entity is a name variation or trigger word that refers to the metrics used when talking to Crystal) and data sources connected to the project.

![](https://crystal-1aa63e8abb35.intercom-attachments-7.com/i/o/368026002/02accd4096c6b14142a362c4/jdrDvl2ZXODelI62q8q8VoZxqd1Kinr0eF3_AILq89eud_9wAyN_TN_5QdbWMT9PlS0uA1JciDV7EctcH6o8VGvRU6byi_8XADTSIXv_PLGKvHYbjZYLkPoS72MeRHKyWUHhD4xk)

To add a new topic, Admins will click on the corresponding link and start the process of topic creation, which is made of **four steps**: **connection** of the data source with the data to retrieve, **configuration** of the topic settings, set up of **filters** (which is optional) and **train —** where Crystal is trained to recognize the topic.

At the end of this process, and after deciding who will be able to bring up this topic in the Advisor by **assigning permissions**, the Admin can choose to publish the topic, which will be shown here with the status **published**, or to keep it in the status **ready,** waiting to publish it at a later moment.

When a topic is published, it will be available for the Advisor’s conversations and every member with permission to see it will be able to ask Crystal about it.

The **User** area will allow the admins to add and manage users for a project.

![](https://crystal-1aa63e8abb35.intercom-attachments-7.com/i/o/368026016/e57459df577aee1325e1b1fc/2p4-nwPO5cbAOx82syeyAGIKO9led-HuMkUL8fazFf-1ST3uy7AYy9XgHO2WJuPAmNDE86IiHxQxanNo4e0oIWrOOnLc_tS5RyX7oE4aatHvaWeGTLNjmmc9EnvTTtyJY9PQ8CFW)

To know more about this area, check [the dedicated article.](/crystal-console/users/user-area.md)

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