A new Dashboard concept was introduced in Portrait 6.x. Capabilities were extended. Inside the application.yml file, you can find the config section dashboard under application.

	Property	Default

	Property	Default
Show Latest / Activity-Feed The Activity feed is automatically generated through Reindexing. You can decide if it is shown on the dashboard.	showLatest `boolean`	`true`
Show Favorites Users can flag entries as favorites. Like this, the user sees the favorites on his dashboard. The newest favorites will be shown on top.	showFavorites `boolean`	`true`
Show Search The search module is a way to promote the global search, which is anyhow always available on the top menu. However, the search module also remembers the last searches.	showSearch `boolean`	`true`
Show Hero The Hero shows an image (see `heroLogo` in Theming) and an intro text to describe the app. The text supports markdown.	showHero `boolean`	`true`
Caption What should be the name of the Dashboard in the sidebar.	caption `string`	`Dashboard`
Quick Actions This defines actions to show up on the dashboard and in the top menu as “Quick Actions”. A quick action needs the following properties: type An action can be either of type `scan` (meant for opening entries with a corresponding barcode) or `form` (see Forms). key ID of the form to open. label Action description. subtitle Extended Description of the action (shown on the dashboard). icon Icon for the action. Use the name for the icon found in the https://feathericons.com/ library. See the below examples. Note that when changing quick actions, a full browser restart is required to make the new actions show up in the context menu of the PWA.	actions `object`	`null`

Example configuration in the application.yml file:

application:
  name: Portrait App
  owner: Treskon GmbH
  ...
  dashboard:
    showLatest: true
    showFavorites: true
    showSearch: true
    showHero: false
    caption: Start
    actions:
      - type: scan
        key: xyz
        label: Lieferung scannen
        subtitle: Barcode scannen und Lieferschein öffnen
        icon: scanner
      - type: form
        key: createServiceCall
        label: Neuer Service-Call
        subtitle: Formular zum Erfassen eines neuen Einsatzes
        icon: edit
      - type: form
        key: uploadFile
        label: Datei hochladen
        subtitle: Datei in das Archiv hochladen
        icon: plus

Rearrange or hide modules

The user can rearrange the dashboard modules to his needs. This order will be stored on the server and will be applied on each device.

Besides from a section favorite, a user cannot hide modules, only an administrator defines what features are available.

Barcode Scanner

The barcode scanner is a part of the quick actions. In the above example, you can see how the barcode scanner is configurable with the type “scan”. How you label it, and describe the use-case behind it, is up to you.