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# The Dashboard

## The Dashboard in ChurchDesk – Your Personal Overview
The dashboard is the first thing you see when logging into ChurchDesk – your starting point for everyday work. It provides a compact and interactive overview of your tasks, events, duties, and current developments in your organisation.
Clearly structured into two sections:
* **My Work**: Here you’ll find all your events, rota duties, and Calendar notifications.
* **Member Care**: This area gives you insight into visits, contacts, messages, and donations.

In this article, we will show you:
* What information and functions the dashboard offers,
* How you can take action directly from the dashboard,
* And what to keep in mind if your permissions are limited.
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### Your Personal Work Overview
#### 1. Events & Invitations (top left)
Under **"My Work"**, you’ll see your upcoming events as well as invitations where you've been added to an event as a **user**. This calendar function is used to keep people informed about relevant events – even if they don't have an active role (i.e. no specific duty).
* **Accept, maybe, or declining an invitation**: Use the **"No answer"** button next to the date.
* You can also **create new events** directly from here.
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#### **2. Rota duties (second row on the left)**
This section contains two tabs:
* Rota duties you are already assigned to
* Open duties that still need volunteers
You can use the **"Assign me"** button to accept open duties directly – without switching to the duties module.
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#### **3. Calendar Notifications**
These show changes to events where you’re listed as a participant – for example, time changes or new assignments. The latest 6 changes in the calendar are always shown.

### Membership Care at a Glance
#### **4. Check-ins & Attendance Tracking**
Under **"Membership Care"**, you’ll find:
* A summary of check-ins already recorded
* Events that are still missing attendance numbers
→ You can enter attendance data directly from here.
More info:
👉 [Record and analyse attendance](https://support.churchdesk.com/en/article/attendance-reh5s6/)
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#### **5. Messages**
This shows messages that have already been sent or are scheduled to be sent. Clicking on the title takes you directly to the message – provided you have permission to access the messaging module.
**Note**: If you don’t have access rights for a module, the relevant tile will appear empty.

#### **6. Contacts & Donations**
* In **"Recent contacts"**, you’ll see newly added contacts and can go directly to their profiles.
* **"Recent donations"** shows incoming donations and the associated projects.

### Additional Notes
* **Customising the dashboard**: ${color}[#bb1616](The layout and content of the dashboard tiles are system-defined and cannot be customised.)
* **Direct access**: All tiles include links to the relevant module.
* **Automatic updates**: The dashboard refreshes automatically – no need to reload it manually.
* **Mobile view**: The ChurchDesk app shows a simplified dashboard with three areas:
    * *Today* (current events)
    * *Invitations* that require a response
    * *Unread messages*


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