Dashboard

The dashboard is the first screen after you sign in. It's a snapshot of what's happening today, and what it shows depends on your role — staff and administrators see how the whole shelter is doing, while volunteers and fosters see their own tasks.

For staff and administrators

The operational dashboard is built from cards, each answering one question:

• Total animals / Active roster / Checked out / Offboarded — the headline counts. Active roster is animals currently in your care; checked out is animals in an activity right now; offboarded is animals that have left (adopted, transferred, etc.).
• Safety alerts queue — open safety concerns raised by volunteers or staff that still need a response. Admins can resolve an alert here with a note.
• Activity minutes today — how many minutes of activity have been logged so far today.
• Daily goals and Goal progress — how animals are tracking against their daily activity targets, broken down by category (see the math below).
• Pending surveys — completed activities that are still waiting for their survey to be filled in.
• Recent activity — a live feed of activities being started and finished.

For volunteers and fosters

Non-operational users get a personal dashboard instead:

• Account status — whether your account is in good standing.
• My pending surveys — surveys you still need to complete.
• Upcoming events — what's coming up at the shelter.
• My recent activity — the activities you've logged.
• Favorited animals — quick links to the animals you've starred.

You'll only see cards your role can use — the dashboard hides the rest rather than showing an error.

Understanding the goal-progress card

This card can look like a fraction (for example 3 / 13) and a percentage. Here's the simple math:

• Pick a category (like Enrichment or Exercise) with the selector on the card.
• The bottom number is how many animals have a daily goal set for that category today.
• The top number is how many of those animals have already met today's goal — meaning the activity minutes logged for them so far today have reached their target.

So 3 / 13 means: of 13 animals expected to get enrichment today, 3 have hit their target so far. The numbers update through the day as activities are logged.

The targets themselves are configured on the Activity goals page (a default per species, with optional per-animal overrides).

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