# Control Panels

> Operator surfaces built from widgets, bound to page data, never sent to air.

Glider documentation · Logic · Web page: https://cgglider.com/docs/control-panels/

Sections of this page: [Building a panel](https://cgglider.com/docs/control-panels.md) · [Widgets](https://cgglider.com/docs/control-panels/widgets.md) · [Wiring](https://cgglider.com/docs/control-panels/wiring.md) · [Operating a panel](https://cgglider.com/docs/control-panels/runtime.md)

The scene is the panel.

A control panel is a control-panel scene and the widgets placed on it, whether it was made with + Panel or by an agent. You build and edit it on that scene, in Arrange mode.

- Deleting a panel deletes its scene, and deleting the scene deletes the panel.

> **Never on air:** Operator-facing controls bound to page data — operate them in the editor; they drive graphic scenes and are never sent to Live.

![A control panel scene in Use mode.](https://cgglider.com/docs-shots/control-panel.png)