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. View and edit project details
   
4. View summary charts
   
5. Manage email alias
   

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.

Click to learn more about access privileges for various modules in Zoho Projects.

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 completed task and issue count - Progress is calculated as a percentage of completed tasks and bugs. ([no. of completed tasks + no of completed bugs]*100/total no of tasks and bugs in the project)
   
2. Based on task percentage completion - Progress is calculated as a percentage of total count of tasks at each level of percentage completion and completed bugs. ([no. of tasks at 1% completion * 1 + no. of tasks at 2% completion * 2 + no. of tasks at 3% completion * 3 + ...... + no. of tasks at 100% completion * 100 + no. of completed issues*100]/total no. of tasks and bugs).
   

Progress Of Work Items

The widgets - Task Status, Issue Status, and Milestone Status show how many work items are closed and how many are open.

Performance Indicators

The widgets - Team Status, Top 5  Go-getters, and Top 5 Issue 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 tasks or bugs to be addressed by the user on the current day.
  
• Top 5 Go-getters  - The users with the maximum number of closed tasks are listed in this widget.
  
• Top 5 Issue fixers - The users with the maximum number of closed issues are listed in this widget.
  

Reports and Summary Charts

The widgets - Task Progress Chart, Weekly Digest, Timesheet Summary, and Budget Status display the work status in the form of reports and graphs.

• Task Progress Chart  - Get the task count against a specific completion percentage from the graph. Hover over any shaded part in the graph to get the exact task count against a completion percentage.
  
• Weekly Digest - Get the status of the tasks, task lists, 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.
  
• Budget Status - Track the budget and ensure whether the team is on track. You can also measure the team's productivity with the help of the Planned vs Actual section.
  
• 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

Manage Notifications

Stay up to date in the project with the help of notifications. Click  in the top band and view the latest updates in the project. You can also navigate to a specific work item from the notification panel itself.

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 tasks, issues, 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 Enterprise edition of Zoho Projects. You must configure the email settings, to forward issues from Zoho Projects 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 Projects 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 from the 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.