Home dashboards
Build at-a-glance dashboards from chart, list, activity, and action tiles that aggregate across every project in your company.
Your home is a set of dashboards — grids of tiles that roll up data from across your whole company, not just one project. Each tile pulls live from a real source: Projects, Contacts, Client Finances, Payments, Client Agreements, Requests, Schedule Tasks, Daily Logs, Records, and your Project Metrics / Company Metrics.
Open your dashboards
- From the sidebar, click Home.
- You'll land on your default dashboard. If your company has more than one, you can switch between them.
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Switch and manage dashboards
- In the toolbar, click the dashboard name to open the switcher dropdown.
- Pick any dashboard in the list to open it. A star marks your current default.
- To create one, open the switcher and click New dashboard, then give it a name.
- To rename, duplicate, set as default, or delete the current dashboard, click the actions button next to the switcher.
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Add a tile
- Click Add Tile in the toolbar. Foreman drops a starter tile on the dashboard and opens the Edit tile window on it — a form on the left, a live preview on the right.
- Set the Title.
- Pick a Data source. This is the primary choice — it's both the real sources (Projects, Contacts, Client Finances, Payments, Client Agreements, Requests, Schedule Tasks, Daily Logs, Records, Project Metrics, Company Metrics) and the fixed tile kinds:
- Action items — overdue invoices, open bid requests, and records needing review.
- Activity feed — a running stream of recent records and payments.
- Text / Note — a note or heading to label a section of the dashboard.
- Project map — every active project with a mapped address, as a pin.
- Optionally add Filters to narrow what the tile counts.
- When the source is a real one, choose the Tile type:
- Chart — bar, line, pie, table, or single value, grouped and summed however you like.
- Data list — a sortable table of raw rows from the source.
- Click Save. Closing any other way discards your edits. Delete and Duplicate for the tile also live in this window.
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Arrange the grid
Drag a tile by its header to move it, and drag any edge or corner to resize. Layout changes save as you go.
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What a tile can show you
Tiles only ever show data you're allowed to see. A tile points at a source (say invoices), and if your role can't read that source, the tile shows a permission message instead of numbers. If your access is limited to assigned projects, tiles only count those projects.
For reading the money columns behind the budget-based tiles — budgeted, committed, invoiced, collected, and profit — see Reading your budget roll-ups.