The Dashboard

The Dashboard keeps an eye on what matters to you without opening a view: your statuses as tiles, and charts you’ve pinned from views. This topic covers opening it, adding and removing tiles, and arranging them.

Opening the Dashboard

Choose Dashboard above the list of views (see Getting started). Grindstone also shows the Dashboard when no view is selected.

Each person has their own dashboard. Adding, removing and moving tiles changes only yours.

A preset can start your dashboard with tiles when you set up a workspace from it. See Presets.

An empty dashboard says “Your dashboard is ready for pins,” and offers Add Status when there are statuses to add.

Status tiles

A status tile shows a status’s name and what it says for you right now. See Statuses and alerts.

To add one, choose Add Status at the top right of the Dashboard and pick a status. The menu lists only the statuses not already on your dashboard, and it doesn’t appear once they all are.

A bell beside a tile’s name means the status is alerting you. The tile’s menu offers:

• Alert Me or Stop Alerting Me, which turns alerts from that status on or off for you, just as the Alerts menu does. See Statuses and alerts.
• Remove from Dashboard, which takes the tile away without changing the status.

Chart tiles

A chart tile shows a chart you pinned from a view with Pin to Dashboard. To add one, set up the chart in the view and pin it. See Charts.

The tile shows the view’s name and a summary of the chart, such as “Sum of Time by Client.” It keeps the chart as it was when you pinned it, while its numbers stay current with the view’s entries.

If the view has parameters, the tile shows them, and you can set them there. They’re the view’s own parameters, so setting one on the tile sets it in the view too.

If some entries couldn’t be charted, the tile says how many were left out, as the view’s chart does. See Charts.

The tile’s menu offers:

• Open in View, which opens the view with this chart showing, replacing the chart the view had.
• Export CSV, for Table charts, which saves the table’s numbers as a CSV file. See Exporting.
• Remove from Dashboard, which takes the tile away without changing the view.

Arranging tiles

Drag a tile by its top strip, where its name is, and drop it where you want it. A line shows where it will land.

When a status or view is deleted, its tiles are removed from the dashboard.