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Arrange Your Command Center

Add, move, resize and remove the panels on your dashboard home, and point each one at a project.

Qaid Team
TL;DR

The Command Center is a grid of panels you choose. Add one with + Panel, move and resize it under Arrange, and point any project panel at one project or all of them. The layout saves to your account, so it follows you to any browser.

The Command Center is the page you land on after you sign in. It is a grid of panels, and you decide which ones it holds and where they sit.

Read your command center

The grid holds seven kinds of panel. A new account starts with one of each, except Quests.

Panel What it shows Click it to One project?
Projects Every project you can open, with its unread count, domain, your role and its feedback count Open that project, or make one with + New project No
Inbox Unread, Escalated, Assigned to you, Total open, and how many are archived Open the project’s inbox, when the panel is on one project Yes
Recent Activity The 12 newest items, unread ones in bold, escalated ones tagged Esc Open that item Yes
Feedback Trend 30 days of positive and negative feedback, and the change from the 30 days before Nothing Yes
Sentiment A dial of positive against negative, with ▲, ▼ and ⚑ escalated counts Nothing Yes
Quests A completion ring, how many quests are live, responses and submissions Open quests →, when the panel is on one project Yes
Subscription Your plan, its status, seats, and projects used against your limit The pricing page, on Free No

The counts leave out archived feedback. Unread means items you have not opened, so each teammate sees their own number.

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Add a panel

  1. Open the list

    Click + Panel in the Panel Array strip above the grid. Each panel kind is listed with one line on what it shows.

  2. Pick one

    Click a panel kind. It lands on the left side of the grid, in the highest spot it fits. Arrange turns on, so you can move it straight away.

You can add the same kind more than once. Two Inbox panels, each pointed at a different project, sit side by side.

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Move, resize and remove panels

Click Arrange. Each panel gets a grip (⠿) in its header, a resize corner at the bottom right, and a ✕. Drag the grip to move a panel, drag the corner to resize it, and click ✕ to take it off the grid. The other panels move out of the way and close up any gap. Click Done when you finish.

The keyboard works on the same two handles. Tab to the grip and the arrow keys move the panel, while Shift with an arrow resizes it. On the resize corner it is the other way round.

A chip in the strip reads “Saving…”, then “Layout saved”. The layout is saved to your account a moment after your last change. If it reads “Save failed”, your next change tries again.

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Point a panel at one project

Every panel except Projects and Subscription has a menu in its header. It starts on All projects, which adds up every project you can open. Pick a project to narrow the panel to it. The menu works whether or not Arrange is on.

An Inbox panel on one project turns its tiles into links to that project’s inbox. If you lose access to a project, its panels go back to All projects.

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Refresh and reset

Panels load with the page and do not update on their own. Click Refresh to load them all again.

Reset layout shows under the strip while Arrange is on. It puts back the six panels a new account starts with, in their first places, and drops everything you added.

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Use it on a phone

On a screen narrower than 768 pixels the panels stack in one column, in the order they sit on the grid. The grips and corners go away, and Arrange only shows a note asking you to arrange on a wider display. The project menus still work. Arrange on a wider screen and the phone picks up the new order.

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