Progress dashboard shows progress indicators, graphs, statistics, and other key performance indicators to help you quickly get an idea about what is happening in a project.

How can you effectively use the project dashboard in Zoho Projects?

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. Your 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.

Progress Indicators

Project progress

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

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)

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 other work items

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

Performance Indicators

The widgets - Team Status, Top 5 Taskminators, and Top 5 Bugminators 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 Taskminators - The users with the maximum number of closed tasks are listed in this widget.
  
• Top 5 Bugminators - The users with the maximum number of closed bugs 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 Overview

1. Click Projects in the top band and navigate to your project.
   
2. Click Dashboard from the left panel.
   
3. Click  in the upper right and click Edit Project.
   
4. Modify the Project Overview section. You can also choose to Show Project Overview By Default.
   
5. After you save the changes,  the updated project overview will reflect like the following. You can also Hide Project Overview if you don't wish to see it whenever you land on the project Dashboard.
   

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.

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Modify Project Information

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 top band and navigate to your project.
   
2. Click Dashboard from the left panel.
   
3. Click    in the upper right and click Project Settings.
   
4. Click Edit Project in the upper right in the defaulted View Details page.
   
5. Edit the project information wherever necessary and save the changes. 
   
   • You can Customize Tabs in order to enable or disable access to a specific module
     
   • You can also view or edit the Project Email Alias to add work items from your registered Email address to your Zoho Projects portal
     

Archive a project

1. Click Projects in the top band and navigate to your project.
   
2. Click Dashboard from the left panel.​
   
3. Click  in the upper right and 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 Project Settings and then click Move to Archive.

Rearrange Widgets

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

1. Click Projects in the top band and navigate to your project.
   
2. Click Dashboard from the left panel.
   
3. Click  in the upper right to rearrange the widgets. Below the Delete Project option, you will see the complete list of widgets available in the dashboard with their respective ON/OFF status.
   
   • When you toggle a module to green, you enable it. When you toggle it to grey, you disable it. You can also drag and drop a widget and place it above or below another widget to reorder it.