The dashboard is what Invantive Estate for Windows opens on after logging on. The top entry of the [[Invantive Estate/Screens/Navigation Tree|navigation tree]] returns to it. The dashboard holds a few cards, each covering one thing which is looked at often enough to deserve a place before anything is chosen from the tree. ## The Cards The dashboard offers three cards: - "Your Calendar": the appointments of the user logged on. - "Active Projects": the projects which are not closed, shown as a [[Invantive Estate/Screens/Lists|list]] and read page by page like any other list. - "You": the details of the person the user is registered as. Every card sits behind a function right of its own. A card for which the user holds no right is left out of the dashboard instead of shown and refused, as everywhere else in the product. See [[Authorisation Matrices]]. ## Opening a Card A card which is not open shows its icon. Clicking the icon opens that card. Its contents then take the room of the dashboard, and the other cards move aside into a strip. Opening another card closes the first one, so one card is open at a time. The dashboard opens with its first card already open, "Your Calendar" for a user who holds the right on it, and the remaining cards in the strip beside it. The contents of that first card are therefore fetched while the dashboard appears, which is what the dashboard spends most of its opening time on; the stop window names the card it is busy with. Up to and including release 26.0 the dashboard opened with every card showing its icon; that was an unintended consequence of an upgrade of the user interface toolkit years earlier, not a choice. A user who holds the right on one card only sees the contents of that card at once. Nothing has to be clicked first, because a single card fills the dashboard anyway and there is nothing to choose between. Up to and including release 26.0 that card showed its icon, which had to be clicked before the one thing the user was authorised for appeared. ## See Also - [[Invantive Estate/Screens/Navigation Tree|Navigation Tree]] - [[Invantive Estate/Screens/Lists|Lists]] - [[Authorisation Matrices]]