Dashboard

Dashboard is where you land after signing in, and what you return to from the top of the sidebar. It gathers widgets that answer one question: what needs attention today.

What you get is not the same for everyone. Each widget has a default per role, so an admin sees different things than a technician. Today holds the day’s figures; the rest of the page is your widgets.

What the widgets show

Most people get Your week across the top, with Next event, Your timesheets, Your leave and Notifications below it. That is the daily core: what you are called to, and what is waiting on you.

If you lead other people, Pending approval and Open shifts join them — timesheets needing an answer, and shifts nobody clocked out of. Admins also get Accounts expiring, Email failures (7d) and Recent admin activity.

If you run projects, there are Projects, Project budget burn and Project events this week. Quick links and News are open to everyone.

Three widgets are off until someone turns them on. Makeup times shows this week’s chair times, production by production. Disabled accounts and Expired logins are the two admin counts you can pin from the admin overview. If you have a makeup time before your next show, Next event says so on its own line: “Makeup 17:30”.

The page refreshes itself every minute while the tab is visible, and at once when you come back to it. A hidden tab makes no requests.

Your shortcuts

Quick links shows your shortcuts as tiles: the pages you open most. Until you have added any, it shows Productions, Planner and Drafts, with a Choose your shortcuts link.

The quickest way to add one is from the page itself. Next to the pin button at the top of a production, a person, the planner, or any other pinnable page sits Add to dashboard. One tap stores the page under its own title, and the button shows On your dashboard from then on. That is how one production or your own person page becomes a tile.

Edit shortcuts opens the list on its own page: Move up, Move down and Remove per shortcut, and Add a shortcut with a picker of the navigation pages you are allowed to open. You can hold up to 12. On a phone the tiles move to the top of the dashboard as soon as you have one.

Shortcuts are not sidebar pins

The two lists are separate. Pinning a page to the sidebar does not add a dashboard shortcut, and removing a shortcut leaves the pin alone.

Customising your own dashboard

Customise opens the list of your widgets. Use Move up and Move down for the order, and Hide to drop a widget without losing its position — it stays in the list as Hidden and comes back with Show. Done closes the list.

Each widget is marked Follows org default or Overridden, so you can see what is your own choice and what comes from your role. Reset to defaults clears all your overrides at once.

An override lasts until you reset

The moment you move or hide a widget, it stops following the org default. If an admin changes the default for your role afterwards, you will not see it until you reset.

Defaults for the role

Admins with permission to manage the dashboard set the starting point per role under Dashboard defaults. That is what new users meet the first time they sign in, and what everyone who has not overridden anything keeps following.

If your dashboard is empty, it is usually because your role has no defaults yet. Add widgets yourself under Customise, or ask an admin to set them for the role.