What Usivity Handles
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The Core Principle
Usivity changes how your product looks. Not what it does. Every Usivity customization lives in the UI layer. It changes what users see and how they interact with the interface. It never touches your database, your APIs, your business logic, or your application code.
Layout and Display
In scope: reordering columns, sections, or panels; showing or hiding UI elements a user does not need; pinning rows, tabs, or menu items for faster access; changing label text, date formats, or number display; adding visual emphasis to specific rows or values.
Data Presentation
In scope: adding calculated columns that derive values from existing data; sorting or filtering tables to match a user's workflow; injecting summary KPIs above a table or list view; color-coding rows based on status or value thresholds; reformatting currency, dates, or identifiers to local conventions.
Workflow Shortcuts
In scope: adding export buttons scoped to a specific view or filter; inserting progress indicators tied to visible data; adding countdown timers based on displayed date fields; creating quick-action buttons that operate on visible rows; adding column toggles to show or hide detail on demand.
Contextual Enhancements
In scope: injecting tooltips that explain fields or values in context; adding banners or callouts to surface important information; pulling in live data from approved external sources and displaying it inline; highlighting values that fall outside a user-defined range; masking or formatting sensitive fields for display purposes.
Out of Scope: Database Writes
Usivity never creates, updates, or deletes records. It personalizes how data is displayed, not the data itself.
Out of Scope: Business Logic Changes
Workflow rules, calculation engines, approval sequences, and backend processing are untouched. Usivity operates entirely on the rendered UI layer.
Out of Scope: Security or Access Policy
Usivity cannot grant access to data a user cannot already see. Permissions and roles are enforced by your system, not overridden by Usivity.
Out of Scope: Navigation and Routing
Usivity works within pages, not between them. It does not modify your app's navigation structure, URL scheme, or page routing.
Gray Zone: Pulling from an Internal API
In scope if your team has approved that API endpoint through the Usivity vendor dashboard. You control which endpoints are available.
Gray Zone: Changing a Label Used in Reports
Usivity changes the display label only. If your exports pull from the same rendered text, they will reflect the change. If they pull from a database field name, they will not.
Gray Zone: Hiding a Required Column
In scope. Usivity can hide any element a user has access to. If the column is business-critical, you can exclude that zone from Usivity's reach using your SDK configuration.