Smarter Dashboard Greetings: Your Header Now Tells You What Needs Attention
Smarter Dashboard Greetings: Your Header Now Tells You What Needs Attention
Release: v0.1.127
Date: 2025-07-14
We updated the dashboard header so it gives you an immediate, accurate picture of your workload the moment you open the app — no more hunting through tabs to work out what needs doing today.
The problem with a static greeting
The dashboard header used to greet you with something like "Good morning, James" — friendly, but not useful. It had no awareness of your actual portfolio state. Meanwhile, the dashboard tabs were already surfacing urgent item counts from the work queue, but that information never made it up to the header where you'd see it first.
An agent arriving at 9 am with three overdue check-outs and two compliance alerts deserves to know that straight away, not after scanning badge counts on individual tabs.
What's new
Contextual subline when urgent items exist
When your work queue contains overdue items or compliance alerts, the header now appends a plain-English summary directly beneath your greeting:
Good morning, James — you have 3 overdue check-outs and 2 compliance alerts.
Each count is a clickable link that takes you directly to the relevant section of the dashboard, so you can act on it immediately.
All-clear confirmation when nothing is outstanding
When your portfolio has no urgent items, the header tells you that too:
Your portfolio is fully compliant today.
This positive confirmation is just as valuable as the alert state — it lets you open the app and move on with confidence.
How it works
The contextual subline is powered by useWorkQueueUrgencyCount, the same data hook that already drives the urgency indicators in DashboardTabs. No additional data fetching is required — the counts are already available in the component tree and are now simply surfaced one level higher in the UI.
Who benefits
- Agents managing multiple properties get an instant morning briefing when they open the app.
- Landlords checking in on their portfolio see compliance status at a glance.
- Any user whose work queue is clear gets a reassuring confirmation rather than silence.