> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.cymph.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Playbook Management System

The **Playbook Management System** is the central place of the platform where your private, shared, and community playbooks reside. From here, you can view, search, share and, in general, perform all actions around playbooks.

# Playbook views

There are different views for playbooks:

1. **Owned by me**: Displays the playbooks owned by you. This view is under **My Playbooks** section.
2. **Shared with me**: Playbooks shared with you. This view is under **My Playbooks** section.
3. **Recent**: Lists the playbooks recently opened or edited by you. This view is directly accessible from the navigation menu.
4. **Favourites**: Shows only the playbooks marked as favorite. This view is directly accessible from the navigation menu.
5. **Watched**: Lists the playbooks added to your watch list. This view is directly accessible from the navigation menu.
6. Public: Lists all playbooks that are publicly shared. This view is under **Explore Playbooks** sections.
7. **Trash**: Lists the playbooks marked for deletion. This view is under **My Playbooks** section.

To access each view, select it from the Navigation menu:

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# Playbook table

The playbook table lists all playbooks that match the selected view. It consists of eight columns:

1. **Name**: The playbook name.
2. **Stage**: There are 3 different stages for a playbook:
   * **Draft**: the playbook is marked as a draft.
   * **Live**: the playbook can be used
   * **Revoked**: the playbook is obsolete and has been revoked.
3. **Last Modified**: The relative time since the last update of the playbook.
4. **Status**: the current status of the playbook. Valid statuses can be:
   * **Planned**
   * **In progress**
   * **In review**
   * **Completed**
5. **Sharing status**: provides an indicator if the private is private, shared with others or shared publicly
6. **Labels**: This column lists the user-defined labels.
7. **Owner**: The avatar of the playbook owner. Hover over the avatar to see the name of the owner.
8. **Automation**: the automation degree of the playbook
9. **Steps**: the number of steps involved in the playbooks
10. **Links**: shows informations on the source of the playbook (e.g. if it is imported from a SOAR system) and how this playbook is linked to configured presets

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# Exploring playbooks

The Explore playbook section contains playbooks that are publicly shared so you can freely browse them.

## Discover area

This area proposes a set of most popular playbook collections organised around various prominent threats and incident types. It also lists the top 5 public playbooks in terms of views that can be relevant to you and your team

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/cymph/JFDIWSyjF5HO5kz2/images/discoverarea.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=JFDIWSyjF5HO5kz2&q=85&s=347ff7f33c31348422679514f3ea8946" alt="Discoverarea" width="3456" height="1726" data-path="images/discoverarea.png" />

## All public playbooks

This is a playbook table containing all playbooks shared publicly
