# Dashboard and announcements

What the dashboard shows, and how to post, pin and target announcements.

The **Dashboard** is the first page you see in an organization. It brings the organization's
news and numbers together, and it keeps itself up to date while it's open.

## What's on the dashboard

- **Announcements**: the latest news, pinned announcements first.
- **Things waiting for you**: for example "3 job applications waiting for review" for the
  application team, with a link straight to them.
- **Numbers at a glance**:

  | Tile                 | What it counts                                                  |
  | -------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
  | **Members**          | People in the organization, and how many departments.           |
  | **New (30 days)**    | Members added in the last 30 days.                              |
  | **Pending requests** | Requests waiting for a decision that you can see.               |
  | **Hours this week**  | Approved activity this week, and hours still awaiting approval. |
  | **Trainings done**   | Completed trainings.                                            |
  | **Expiring certs**   | Certifications that expire within 30 days.                      |

- **Charts**: employment status (active, on leave, terminated), requests by status and by type, and
  headcount by department.

What you see depends on your access level. Members see the organization-wide numbers but only their
own requests; managers and Super Users see more. View-only people see the announcements and general
numbers.

## Announcements

Announcements are short messages for the whole organization or one department, such as a schedule,
a policy change or a welcome.

### Posting one

1. On the dashboard, click **New** in **Announcements**.
2. Write a **Title** and a **Message**.
3. Choose the **Audience**: everyone, or one department.
4. Leave **Notify members** on to send it to the audience as a notification (a Discord DM, or in the
   app if they've turned DMs off). Turn it off for small updates.

Who can post:

- **Super Users** can post to everyone or to any department.
- **Managers** can post to a department.

Department announcements are only shown to that department's members (and to Super Users).

### Pinning and deleting

- **Pin** keeps an announcement at the top until it's unpinned (Super Users).
- **Delete** removes it for everyone. The author and Super Users can delete an announcement.

> [!TIP]
> Announcements are also sent to your [webhooks](/crew/webhooks) as `announcement.published`, so you
> can mirror them to a website or another tool.

Source: https://docs.noyralabs.com/crew/dashboard