Dashboard in a project shows important progress indicators, graphs, statistics, and other key performance indicators to quickly understand where the project stands.

Benefits:

1. View summary of work items in the project
   
2. Check progress of your project
   
3. Edit project details
   
4. View summary charts
   

Widgets

The widgets showcase the status of the team in the best possible way. You can reposition widgets, change the chart type, and access data quickly in the dashboard. You need permission to view the respective module to view the widgets on the dashboard.

Project Progress

You can view progress of your project from the project dashboard. Progress is shown as a percentage in the top left corner.

1. Based on closed bugs count - Progress is calculated as a percentage of closed bugs. ([no of closed bugs]*100/total no of bugs in the project)
   
2. Based on weightage of closed bugs - A numeric field or weightage field can be added from the Bug Layout. The project progress is calculated as a percentage sum of weightage of closed. ((sum of closed bugs weightage field values * 100) / (sum of all the bugs weightage field values)).
   

Progress Of Work Items

The widgets - Bug Status and Milestone Status show how many work items are closed and how many are open.

Performance Indicators

The widgets - Team Status and Top 5 Bug Fixers  display data that measure the team's performance.

• Team Status - It displays the count of the overdue and open work items for every user in the team. It also displays the number of bugs to be addressed by the user on the current day.
  
• Top 5 Bug fixers - The users with the maximum number of closed bugs are listed in this widget.
  

Reports and Summary Charts

The widgets - Weekly Digest, Timesheet Summary, display the work status in the form of reports and graphs.

• Weekly Digest - Get the status of milestones and bugs in the current week from this widget. Select a week from the drop-down to view its status. You can also select a different view from the lot in the upper right part of the widget.
  
• Timesheet Summary - Track the billable and non-billable hours that are logged by the team.
  

Pipeline Work Item Indicators

The widgets - Today's Work Items, Overdue Work Items, and Upcoming Events display the work that is yet to be completed.

• Today's Work Items - Get the list of the work items that are scheduled for the current day.
  
• Overdue Work Items - Get the list of the work items that are incomplete and have gone past the due date.
  
• Upcoming Events - View the events that are scheduled for the current week.
  

Manage Project Details

1. Click Projects in the left navigation panel and navigate to your project.
   
2. Click Dashboard from the top panel.
   
3. Navigate to Details tab and edit the project.
   
   

Email Project Management

1. You need to register your personal or business email address with accounts.zoho.com.
   
2. You have to be associated with that project to add bugs, comments, and files via email into the projects.
   
3. If you are not associated with the project, still you can manage your project. But, this is possible only if you own the Premium edition of Zoho BugTracker. You must configure the email settings, to forward bugs from Zoho BugTracker to your configured mail address.
   

Modify Email Alias

From the dashboard, you can also edit the project information and get the email Alias to add work items from your registered email address to your Zoho BugTracker portal.

1. Click Projects in the left navigation panel and navigate to your project.
   
2. Click Dashboard from the top panel.
   
3. Navigate to Details tab and click   in the upper-right corner.
   
4. Click Email Alias. Click the edit icon to change the email alias.
   
5. Click Save.
   
   
   

Archive a Project

1. Click Projects in the left navigation panel  and navigate to your project.
   
2. Click Dashboard  from the top panel.
   
3. Click in the upper-right and then click  Move to Archive.
   
4. Confirm your action.
   

You can also archive a project in Project Details. Click   in the upper-right corner and click Move to Archive.

Customize Widgets

Rearrange the order in which the widgets display in the dashboard by following these steps:

1. Click Projects in the  left navigation panel  and navigate to your project.
   
2. Click Dashboard from the top panel.
   
3. Navigate to Widgets tab.
   
4. Click and select Customize Widget, you will see the complete list of widgets available in the dashboard with their status.
   
5. Toggle a module to enable/disable it. You can also drag and drop a widget reorder it.