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For users in your directory, everything you configure shows up in two places: an app dashboard that launches the applications assigned to them, and a self-service account where they manage their authenticators and preferences. Use this page when you’re testing a setup or helping someone who is stuck.
This is the end-user view, not the administrator dashboard. End users reach it after they sign in; administrators get a link to switch into the admin console.

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The app dashboard

After signing in, each user lands on their app dashboard, an app launcher that shows the applications assigned to them as tiles. It opens with a welcome that notes their apps are provided by your organization, using the company name you set in the Organization Profile.
The Iru app dashboard showing a Favorites section and a Your Applications grid of app tiles.

The app dashboard: a Favorites section and the full Your Applications grid.

Each application tile shows: Selecting a tile signs the user straight in to that application; Iru completes the single sign-on, so there is no separate password to enter at the app. The tiles are the applications assigned to the user through a group, except applications hidden with Hide from users. A hidden application stays assigned, so the user still has access. It does not appear on the app dashboard or in favorites.
Because the launcher reflects access in real time, it is a fast way to verify a change: assign an app to a test user, sign in as them, and confirm the tile appears and opens the app. See the Quickstart.

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Favorites

Users can mark the apps they use most as favorites for quicker access. Hovering a tile reveals a star; selecting it adds or removes the app from their favorites.
  • Favorited apps appear in a Favorites section at the top of the app dashboard.
  • A user can switch between viewing just their favorites and viewing all their apps.
  • Favorites are personal to each user and do not affect anyone else or change who is assigned to an app.
The exact surface differs by app: the Iru Access desktop app shows apps on a Home view with favorites surfaced at the top (alongside its other tabs), while the mobile app has a dedicated Favorites tab rather than a separate Home view.

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Finding an app quickly

Alongside browsing tiles, users can search their apps by name from the app dashboard and open a match directly from the results. Recently opened apps are kept close at hand so they are one selection away the next time someone returns.

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Self-service account

From the account menu, each user opens their account settings, organized into two areas.
The Profile area shows a user’s core identity details (name, username, email, and their Iru domain), drawn from their directory profile. Core identity fields are managed for them and shown read-only here.Users can set their own preferences (a preferred name, language, time zone, whether dates show in relative form, and whether they receive email updates) and upload a profile photo.
Adding a passkey requires an existing authenticator to confirm the request. A user with no authenticator yet cannot bootstrap one from self-service alone; send them a registration link to enroll their first authenticator. See Installing Iru Access for the end-user enrollment flow. Encourage users to register more than one so losing a single device does not lock them out.

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How it ties together

What an end user sees and can do depends on how you’ve configured Iru:
  • The directory determines who they are. See Users.
  • Assignments determine which applications a user can open. Visibility determines which of those applications appear on the dashboard. See Assigning access.
  • Authentication policies determine what they must prove to sign in and to open each app. See Authentication policies.
  • The Organization Profile determines the company name and logo they see throughout. See Organization.

Authenticators

The passkeys users manage in their self-service account.

The sign-in experience

What users see and do as they authenticate to reach this app dashboard.

Assigning access

Decide which groups can open each application, and which apps appear on the dashboard.

Organization

Set the company name and logo your people see across their app dashboard.

Manage authenticators

End-user guide for passkeys, Iru Access, and backup devices

Accessing your apps

What end users see when they sign in and open apps

Installing Iru Access

First-time enrollment from an invitation