The Manage Menu in ChanTan Studio: Where Everything Is

Find your app's data, users, files, code and error log in one place. A plain-English tour of the Manage menu — and why there is no Cloud tab to look for.

Your project has just two tabs at the top: "Preview" (your app running live) and "Manage ▾" (everything behind your app).

Everything else — your data, the people who sign in, your files, your code — lives inside "Manage ▾".

⚠️ Looking for a "Cloud tab" or a "Database tab"? Neither exists. Some older messages still use those words. Open "Manage ▾" at the top of your project instead — that's not your mistake, it's stale wording.

1. Open your project

From your dashboard, click the project you want to look inside.

2. Press "Manage ▾" at the top

It sits right next to "Preview". A menu drops down.

On a phone, the bottom bar reads "Chat" / "Preview" / "Manage" — tapping "Manage" opens the exact same menu.

3. Pick what you want to see

The menu is split into two groups. Each item says in plain words what it is.

"Your app data"

"Advanced"

A seventh item, "Domain", appears in the "Advanced" group once your app is published (badge "When live", description "Connect your own web address.").

✅ Done. You should now see the drop-down with "Your app data" on top and "Advanced" underneath — and clicking any item opens that screen.

The "Engine room" — the hub behind Database and Analytics

"Database" and "Analytics" both open the same manager. Its home screen is called "Your app's engine room" — "Everything behind your app in one place — tap a card to open it."

You can return to it from anywhere inside using the "Engine room" pill.

From there you reach:

There's also a quieter "Advanced" row: "Sign-in settings", "Secrets", "SQL Editor", "Edge Functions", "Scheduled Tasks", "System logs", "Activity" and "Suggestions". Most owners never open any of these.

Across the top runs a live band of numbers: "total users", "rows of data", "storage used" and "active last 30 days". While a number is still loading it shows "—" — you'll never be shown a fake zero.

Quick "where do I find…?" table

Honest limits

• "Code" is read-only. No typing, no Save, no rename, no delete. To change your app, describe the change in the chat or use click-to-edit on the Preview tab.
• There is no ZIP download of your project anywhere. The way to take your code out is the "Push to GitHub" button in the project header — it creates a private repository you own.
• "Errors" has nothing to press. It's a diagnosis log. If your app is broken, describe the problem in the chat instead.
• You don't need any of this for normal use. The AI sets up your database, writes the saving code and turns on data protection for you. Manage exists so you can see what it did.

If something looks wrong