About Dashboard

The Dashboard is the situational-overview page for the current AlloyScan site. It is the page you land on after sign-in and the page you return to when you want a single-screen read of your estate's health, audit freshness, hardware mix, software activity, and operating-system footprint.

How the Dashboard works

The Dashboard renders a fixed catalog of 15 widgets in a three-column grid. Every site has the same widget set in the same order — the layout is part of the product, not a per-user preference.

Each widget summarizes a slice of the site's audited inventory. Most widgets render as a donut chart with category bands (for example, free disk space brackets or hardware-age buckets); a few render as top-N lists with a period selector. Widgets read from the same audit data that powers Inventory, so the Dashboard is always aligned with what you would see if you opened the corresponding inventory grid.

Two interaction patterns are consistent across the widget set:

Drill-down. Click a slice of a donut, a row of a list, or any clickable counter, and AlloyScan navigates to the matching Inventory grid with a pre-applied filter. The filter is encoded in the URL, so the resulting grid view is shareable and bookmarkable.
Collapse / expand. Each widget has a collapse control so you can hide widgets you do not need on a given visit without changing the layout for other users.

For the two time-bounded widgets — Devices not audited in the last N days and Software added within the last N days — a period selector adjusts the lookback window in place.

Why the layout is fixed

AlloyScan's Dashboard is intentionally a curated, fixed read-out rather than a user-composable surface:

The widget set is chosen to cover the recurring questions an asset manager or site admin needs answered at a glance — coverage, freshness, OS mix, hardware age, software activity, and a handful of common compliance angles such as Windows 11 readiness.
Because every site shows the same widgets, training, screenshots, and runbooks transfer cleanly between sites and between roles.

Role differences

User and Administrator roles see the same 15 widgets and the same drill-down behavior. The Dashboard does not expose admin-only controls.
The Dashboard is always scoped to the current site. To compare across sites, switch sites from the header site switcher and revisit the Dashboard, or use multi-site reports (Global Administrator).

Key distinctions

Dashboard vs Reports. The Dashboard is a fixed read-only overview. Reports are printable and exportable document templates.
Dashboard vs Reports. Dashboard widgets are interactive summaries that drill into Inventory. Reports are document-style, printable / exportable templates rendered through the report viewer.
Drill-down vs filter. A Dashboard drill-down opens an Inventory grid with a server-side filter pre-applied; it does not change the Dashboard itself.

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