Introduction

Last updated 29/09/2025

The Configuration view enables you to set configurations for your Five account. You can change the user interface of Five, and set key: value pairs to configure elements such as OpenAI.

Navigate to Configuration

You need to be at the top-level menu in Five. No application needs to be selected because the configurations you set will apply to your Five account, not your application/s.

1. Select Configuration in the menu.

Figure 1 - Configuration menu item

Interface

By default, Five's user interface is configured to New York and this will display the menus at the top of your screen under Five's toolbar. When you select a menu, the sub-menus will be available to select. If there are no sub-menus, the view will open when the menu has been selected.

Figure 2 - New York interface

You can change the interface to Boston which will display the menu items on the left of your screen and when you select a menu item, the sub-menus will be available. If there are no sub-menus, the view will open when the menu has been selected.

Figure 3 - Boston interface

Change Five's Interface

1. Either click the Edit button in the form app bar or click directly in the Interface field.

2. Click the lookup icon in the Interface field and select and an option.

3. Click the Save button in the form app bar.

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You will need to log out of Five and sign back in to see the change to the user interface.

Options

Options enable you to add key: value pairs to apply to your Five account.

The following key: value pair sets up OpenAI in Five's Code Editor.

Key	Value	Example
OPENAI_KEY	Contains your API key from OpenAI	sk-567ry56tE435T768960K8987756gfkjrT