Depending on how the Agenda Player player is configured, the screen is divided into either three or four parts:
- Along the top is the Agenda Player header. It contains a customizable Agenda Player title on the left and, where appropriate, a progress bar on the top right, which shows the user's progress through the agenda. The steps completed in the progress bar will be shaded in color whereas the steps that have yet to be completed will not.
- On the left of an Agenda Player, a navigation panel (optional) shows the list of pages in the current agenda. The user's progress through the sequence is continuously displayed there (in addition to progress bar) by highlighting of the current page. The appearance and behavior of the other pages in the agenda depends on the mode used (see below). The pages in an agenda can be grouped into sections and the player provides the ability to collapse and expand visited sections.
At the bottom of the navigation panel is the summary link, which allows users to jump directly to the player summary page (they would also get there by navigating through all the pages in the agenda). The summary link is only displayed if there is an appropriate element specified in the agenda XML. The navigation panel is not displayed in the navigator-less (claimant) view of the Agenda Player.
- Along the bottom, a set of buttons is displayed to allow the user to step forward and back through the Agenda Player. There are also buttons to jump to the summary page (displayed optionally) and to quit the Player.
Note: The text used for these buttons can be customized (see below). However, for the remainder of this section they are further referred as the Back, Next, Finish and Cancel buttons, which are their default captions.
- The main area of the screen is the content area. This area displays normal client pages which might also be used outside of the Agenda Player.