Dashboard Pro

Dashboard Pro turns the admin's Dashboard into Dashboards: one sidebar entry, as tabs. The first tab, Overview, is the Dashboard you know - always there, and it cannot be moved or removed. After it come your own boards of widgets, which each person arranges for themselves.

Every Tool, automatically

There is nothing to install or connect. Every Tool with widgets is available to Dashboard Pro automatically - switch a Tool on and its widgets are in the gallery straight away.

• Built in: Traffic (the last 30 days), Visitors now, Needs attention, Recent activity, Site health and Top pages.
• Every Tool with a count in the sidebar - unread email, bookings, support tickets, form submissions, pages, media and the rest - showing the same number as its badge, with the badge's details beneath.
• Widgets a Tool adds of its own - a figure, a list or a chart.

You only ever see widgets for the Tools you are allowed to open.

Your first board

1. Open Dashboards in the sidebar and press + after the tabs. Name the new board - Today, say.
2. Choose Add widget in the banner, or right-click anywhere on the board. Search the gallery and press Add on the widgets you want.
3. Arrange them: drag a card by its grip, or use Move earlier / Move later in its ⋮ menu (Alt+arrow keys on a focused card).
4. Size them: Small, Medium, Large or Full width, from the card's ⋮ menu or by right-clicking it.
5. Fold a card with its chevron; the double chevron in the banner folds or opens them all. A folded card does not refresh until you open it.
6. Remove one from its menu, or press Delete on a focused card.

Cards pack upwards, so a short one never leaves a gap. Each card refreshes on its own, and at once when its Tool's count changes.

Several boards

Keep up to twelve boards - Sales, Content, Support - as tabs after the Overview. Right-click a board's tab (or double-click it) to rename, duplicate, move or delete it. Each board has its own address, so you can bookmark it.

Settings (the cog)

• Name - what your Dashboards are called, in the banner, the browser tab and the sidebar entry.
• Greeting, Columns (3, 4 or 6), Cards (normal or compact).
• Updates - Live, Slower, or Paused (only when you press Refresh).
• Open on my boards - signing in, or pressing the sidebar entry, opens the board you used last instead of the Overview.

For administrators

• Make this the default for everyone (in the banner) - the board you are on becomes the starting point for everyone who has not arranged their own. Reset takes anyone back to it.
• Dashboards name (cog, under For everyone) - the name everyone sees unless they set their own.
• Lock the layout - everyone but administrators sees the default board and can fold and refresh widgets, but not add, move, resize or remove them.

Switching it off

Disable Dashboard Pro and the sidebar entry goes back to Dashboard at once. Everyone's boards are kept, so turning it back on brings them back exactly as they were.

For Tool authors

A Tool with a sidebar count already has a widget. For anything more, add admin.widgets to its plugin.json - a kind (count, stat, list or chart) and a data route, no code. See "Dashboard widgets" in the Domma CMS plugin guide (docs/plugin-development.md).