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The Dashboard is the starting page of PDM: this is where you land right after signing in. It gives you the overall picture of the platform and a shortcut back to whatever you were last working on. It is a display case, not a working tool: nothing can be changed from here.

Stat tiles

Five numbers that give you the scale of the installation: clusters, stands, applications, active builds, releases. Not every caption is self-explanatory:

Tile	What the number is
Applications	How many platform services are registered in PDM
Active builds	How many builds are queued or running right now
Releases	How many releases there have ever been

The numbers reflect what you can see: if you have permissions for only some stands, the tiles count only those, not everything that exists in the infrastructure.

Panels

Active builds

The builds running right now: the service, what exactly is being built (a branch, for example) and how long the build has been going. The full history, and triggering a new build, live on the Builds page.

Recent releases

Up to five most recent releases with their author, the number of changes and the status. For more, go to the release history.

Favorite stands

The same stands as in the “Favorites” block of the sidebar. You fill this block yourself, with the star in the header of the stand page.

Clusters

The clusters and how many stands each one holds.

The dashboard is not configurable: the set of blocks and their order are the same for everyone. The only thing you influence is the contents of the “Favorite stands” panel.

How to read the numbers and statuses

• The colour in a release row and in a build row speaks the same status language as the rest of PDM: “Running” means in progress, “Completed” or “Success” means finished successfully, “Failed” means it broke. The full list is in Interface and navigation.
• The state of favorite stands updates on its own, while builds and releases are loaded when the dashboard opens: to see new ones, open the page again.

The “Refresh” button

The Refresh button is only visible to those who have been granted the matching permission.

It does not reload the page. The button starts a synchronisation — PDM re-reads the state of the external systems: the list of clusters, projects and stands, their configuration and their secrets.

PDM shows a snapshot, not a live system

Everything except stand state is stored by PDM itself and refreshed by synchronisation, which runs on a schedule on its own. That is why a stand created in the cluster a minute ago does not appear in PDM instantly. Synchronisation is also the reason to press “Refresh” when you know for certain that something changed on the outside.

Synchronisation deploys nothing

“Refresh” only reads data from external systems into PDM. It triggers no builds, no deploys and no releases.

What's next

• Interface and navigation — how the menu and the lists are laid out.
• Stand page — the main working page.
• Workspaces — where to follow the progress of builds, deploys and releases.