Dashboard

Read time 8 min Level Beginner Prerequisites An active Buzzscribed login

In a nutshell: Your home Dashboard is a customisable widget grid with a fixed KPI Summary strip on top -- the morning view that tells you the shape of your day before you pick where to work. Toggle widgets on or off, drag to reorder, resize and dismiss them; the strip shows Active Stories, On Track, My Activities, Tasks Due, Pending Reviews, Hours This Week and System Status. For depth, follow each widget's "View All" through to the dedicated analytics page that owns it.

What you will learn

What the home Dashboard does and what the KPI Summary strip shows.
The widgets available, which are on by default, and what each one tells you.
How to customise the dashboard -- toggle, drag, resize, dismiss, reset.
Where to go for the deeper analytics each widget hints at.

The mental model

The home Dashboard is a morning view of the platform. Open Buzzscribed, read the headline counts, then head to the dedicated pages for the day's work. The greeting reads "Welcome back!"; the customise control and the guided-tour button sit alongside it.

It is a customisable widget grid -- cards you can switch on or off, drag around and resize -- with a fixed KPI Summary strip across the top. Spans every Story you are running, so the picture is your whole world in one place.

NewsWire Analytics is the page for cross-campaign pitching and download performance -- reachable from the Recent Engagements widget's View All. The home Dashboard is the index; NewsWire Analytics is the chapter.

The KPI Summary strip

The strip across the top carries seven headline numbers, each linking through to the page it summarises:

Active Stories -- how many Stories you are running.
On Track -- shown as x/y, how many of your scored Stories are on track. Links to the KPI Scorecard.
My Activities -- your open agreement activities from Account Management.
Tasks Due -- tasks due. Links to the Stories calendar.
Pending Reviews -- releases waiting on your review in the Editing Suite.
Hours This Week -- your logged time this week.
System Status -- a health indicator for the platform.

Plain counts -- the metrics that drive your day, without the distraction of trend arrows or sparklines. For the analytical depth behind each one, click through and the matching page opens.

The widgets

Below the KPI strip sits the widget grid. The cards available include:

My Timesheet: A chart of hours you recorded per weekday against a 7.5-hour target, with a Log Time shortcut.
My Tasks: Your tasks, with View All into the Stories calendar.
Pending Reviews: Releases waiting on your sign-off in the Editing Suite.
Interviews: Interviews for the day, with prev / today / next-day controls.
Recent Engagements: Recent NewsWire downloads -- who has pulled your Story assets lately. View All opens NewsWire Analytics.
Media Mentions: Recent coverage and mentions, with View All into the mentions feed.
Contract Alerts: Agreements approaching key dates -- View All opens Account Management. Off by default.
Unscheduled Work: Agreement activities not yet scheduled. Off by default; View All opens Account Management.
My Capacity: Your workload and capacity picture. Off by default.
Finance Overview: A finance snapshot for Admin users, off by default; View All opens Finance.
Mail Stats: Email sending stats. Off by default; View All opens the Mail Dashboard.
News Agenda: What is in the news, with its own time-window dropdown (24h / 48h / 7 days) and country dropdown. Off by default.
Free Plan Usage: Shown on the free plan -- emails, storage and AI queries this month against the plan limits, with an Upgrade button.

The on-by-default set is the KPI strip plus a handful of everyday cards (My Timesheet, My Tasks, Pending Reviews, Interviews, Recent Engagements). Switch the rest on when they fit how you work.

[Screenshot placeholder -- the home Dashboard: "Welcome back!" greeting with a tour button and a "Customize dashboard widgets" button; the KPI Summary strip; two columns of widget cards below.]

The home Dashboard. The KPI strip is fixed; the cards below are draggable, resizable, and can be toggled on or off.

Customising it

Click Customize dashboard widgets by the greeting. The customise modal lists every widget with an on/off toggle and lets you drag widgets to reorder them inline. On the grid itself, drag a card by its grip handle to move it, drag the resize handle to make it taller or shorter, and click a card's "x" to dismiss it. Dismissed cards collect in a Hidden bar at the bottom so you can bring them back at any time. Reset to Defaults in the customise modal restores the standard layout. Your layout is remembered between visits.

Try this: Open the customise modal, switch on News Agenda and Contract Alerts, close it, then drag News Agenda to the top of its column and resize it taller. Take the guided tour (the tour button by the greeting) for a quick walkthrough. If the layout ends up cluttered, reopen the modal and hit Reset to Defaults -- you are back to the recommended starting point.

Where the deeper analytics live

The dashboard is deliberately shallow -- headline counts and recent activity. When a widget makes you want detail, follow its View All:

Recent Engagements → NewsWire Analytics -- cross-campaign NewsWire downloads and pitch performance.
On Track / KPI → KPI Scorecard -- how each Story is tracking against its objectives.
Story-level detail → Story Performance -- per-Story coverage, quality and Success Score.
Media Mentions → the mentions feed; Contract Alerts / My Activities → Account Management; Mail Stats → the Mail Dashboard.

Treat the dashboard as the index and these pages as the chapters.

Frequently asked

Is this the same as NewsWire Analytics?: Two different pages. The home Dashboard is your customisable widget grid. NewsWire Analytics (TRACK menu) reports NewsWire downloads and pitch performance across campaigns -- the Recent Engagements widget's View All takes you there.
Can I change which widgets show?: Yes. Click Customize dashboard widgets by the greeting -- toggle widgets on or off and drag to reorder. On the grid, move, resize and dismiss cards directly. Reset to Defaults restores the standard layout. Your layout saves automatically.
What does the KPI Summary strip show?: Active Stories, On Track (x/y), My Activities, Tasks Due, Pending Reviews, Hours This Week, System Status -- the counts that drive your day. Each one links through to its source page.
Does the dashboard filter by Client or Story?: It spans every Story you are running -- the cross-portfolio picture in one view. The News Agenda widget has its own time-window and country dropdown for that specific card.
Where is the Finance Overview widget?: Off by default and Admin-visible -- turn it on from the customise modal if you have the role for it.
What is the tour button by the greeting?: A guided tour of the dashboard -- a quick walkthrough of the widgets and controls.

Key takeaways

The home Dashboard is a customisable widget grid with a fixed KPI Summary strip -- a morning reading view, not a working screen.
KPI strip: Active Stories, On Track (x/y), My Activities, Tasks Due, Pending Reviews, Hours This Week, System Status.
On-by-default widgets: My Timesheet, My Tasks, Pending Reviews, Interviews, Recent Engagements. Switch on the rest (Media Mentions, Contract Alerts, Unscheduled Work, My Capacity, Finance Overview, Mail Stats, News Agenda) as they fit your workflow.
Customise via the modal: toggle, drag, resize, dismiss, reset to defaults. Layout is remembered.
Follow each widget's View All to the dedicated page that owns the analytics behind it.