Module guide
Dashboards
Build a view across modules, from live data, and keep it.
Overview
Dashboards lets you compose a page of widgets that read across the whole workspace at once: tasks, projects, customer records, time and goals in one place, rather than four screens and a mental sum. Start from a template if you want a shape to work from, or build one from nothing. Every widget reads live data through the shared query engine, so a dashboard is never a snapshot somebody has to remember to refresh. You can keep several and switch between them, because the question a team lead asks on a Monday is not the question a project manager asks on a Thursday.
Highlights
The capabilities worth knowing before you dive in.
- Widgets that aggregate across tasks, projects, customer records, time and goals in one view
- A template gallery to start from, so the first dashboard is not a blank page
- Several dashboards, switchable, because different questions want different pages
- Live data through the shared query engine, so nothing here is a snapshot that goes stale
- A guided create flow rather than a prompt box, so a dashboard is named and shaped deliberately
Important to know
Limits, permissions, and sharp edges to keep in mind.
- Dashboards are part of the analytics module. The whole route is gated on it, and nothing is fetched at all for a workspace without it.
- A widget shows what you are allowed to see. Two people on the same dashboard can legitimately see different numbers, because permissions apply to the underlying data.
- Deleting a dashboard removes the page and its widgets. Nothing it was reading is affected.
- A dashboard reads and never writes. Nothing you do here changes a task, a project or a record.
How to use it
The primary workflow, start to finish.
- Open Dashboards. If you have none, start from the template gallery rather than an empty page.
- Name the dashboard for the question it answers, not for the person who made it.
- Add widgets for the numbers that question needs, across whichever modules hold them.
- Switch between dashboards from the tabs at the top as the question changes.
FAQ
- Why can I not open Dashboards?
- It is part of the analytics module. If your workspace does not have that module, the route is closed and nothing is loaded.
- Why does my colleague see a different number?
- Because a widget shows what the reader is allowed to see. The dashboard is shared; the data behind it still respects permissions.
- Do I need to refresh a dashboard?
- No. Widgets read live data. A dashboard is a question rather than a saved snapshot.
- Does deleting a dashboard delete anything else?
- No. It removes the page and its widgets. Every task, project and record it was reading is untouched.
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