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The dashboard is “A quick look at what needs attention.” Open it from Dashboard at the top of the sidebar. It is where most people land when they sign in; a volunteer with no other role lands on My shifts instead. The dashboard is made of three widgets, in this order until you change it: Each widget shows only what your role can read. A widget, a count or a line for a workspace your role cannot read is left out, not shown as zero, so two people can see different dashboards. A box that reads “Quick search people or animals…”. Type at least two characters and matches appear below it: up to five people, tagged Person with their email, and up to five animals, tagged Animal with their species. Click one to open it. People are matched on first name, last name and email. Animals are matched on name, breed, microchip number and ID. The widget searches people only if your role can read People, and animals only if it can read Animals. With neither, it does not appear. To jump to a page as well as a record, use search in the header instead. See Search.

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Snapshot

Up to four counts. Each appears only if your role can read the workspace it comes from. Each count comes from Animals, Fundraising, Shifts and Public Registry respectively. See Animal statuses, Donations, Roster and Flags.

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Agenda

One list of what needs attention soon, from across the rescue. Each line has a tag saying what kind of thing it is, a title, a detail, and on the right the date it is due or Ongoing. Click a line to go to it. Shifts and events need your role to read Shifts; campaigns and donations need Fundraising; flags need Public Registry; duplicates need People. If your role reads none of these, the agenda does not appear.

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The order of the list

Donations, flags and duplicates have no due date, and show Ongoing. They come first, oldest first, because the longer something has been waiting the more it needs doing. Everything with a date follows, soonest first. When nothing needs attention, the agenda says Nothing needs attention right now.

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Customize

You can put the widgets in the order you want and hide the ones you do not use. The arrangement is yours alone: nobody else’s dashboard changes, and yours looks the same on every browser and device you sign in on.
1

Open the panel

Press Customize at the top right of the dashboard. A panel lists every widget with a short description of each.
2

Rearrange

Drag a widget up or down the list, or use its up and down arrows.
3

Hide or show

Press the eye beside a widget to hide it. Press it again to bring it back.
4

Finish

Press Done.
There is no save button: each change is saved as you make it. If a change cannot be saved, the panel says Couldn’t save that. Reset puts every widget back in its original order and shows them all again. Hiding a widget only tidies your own screen. It does not change what you can see anywhere else, and a widget you cannot use because of your role stays empty whether it is hidden or not. If you hide every widget, the dashboard says so and points you back to Customize. When RescueConsole adds a new widget, it appears at the end of your dashboard, even if you have customized it before.