Day-to-Day Use

Dashboard Tour

The Dashboard is the home page of Studio Cut Video. It's a live operations centre: you can read the state of every production, every storage GB, every quota slot, and every error from this one screen.

URL: /video_production/dashboard. Auto-refreshes every 30 seconds — no manual reload needed.

What's on the screen

1. Greeting

Top-left card with your name and today's date. Pure orientation.

2. Quick stats (the bento grid)

A grid of metric tiles. The exact set rendered:

Tile	What it shows
Total Productions (featured card)	All-time count, with a +N this week delta. Inline sub-metrics: Active Now, queued count, Published.
Published · Month	Current calendar-month completion count, with delta.
In Progress	Productions currently active. Footer shows draft count: "N drafts".
Queue	Queue depth and slot usage: "queue_active / queue_slot_limit slots" (or "awaiting slot").
Avg Duration	Average production duration in minutes (`avg_duration_minutes`).
Needs Attention	Failed productions count — click to filter directly to them.

3. Recent Productions panel

A list of your latest productions. Each row shows:

Status icon (▶ in-progress · ✓ published · ! error · … queued)
Title and reference number
Relative time ("3 hours ago")
Progress bar with percentage
Current-phase badge

Click any row to jump to that production's detail page. View All button leads to the full Productions list.

4. Production Queue panel (only when work is queued)

Visible when you have queued or active productions. Shows:

A slot meter bar with "X / Y slots in use".
Counts of active, free, and waiting.
A pending list with each queued production's queue position, name, reference, wait time, and a Remove button to cancel that queue item.
"No backlog — all queued slots are running" when only active items exist.

5. Pipeline Overview chart

Renders a Chart.js distribution chart (canvas id phaseChart) showing how many of your productions sit in each phase right now. Helps you see bottlenecks ("I have 8 things stuck at Phase 1 review").

6. Storage Panel

A horizontal bar showing storage usage as a percentage and absolute MB/GB used vs. limit.

7. Role-based tabs (only if applicable)

Tab	Visible to	Shows
Agency	Agency admins	Member seats, team productions, agency storage.
White Label	White-label admins	Active client tenants, monthly revenue, pending settlements.

End users without these roles never see these tabs.

Reading the dashboard

The dashboard is designed to be glanced at in <5 seconds. Quick reads:

Did anything fail? Look at Needs Attention. If it's > 0, click into it.
Am I close to running out of storage? Glance at the Storage Panel.
Is the pipeline flowing? Check Pipeline Overview — too many at one phase means a bottleneck.
Am I queue-bound? The Production Queue panel tells you whether work is waiting on free slots.
What did I ship this month? Published · Month.
What did I do all-time? Total Productions with the +N this week delta.

Real scenario — the morning routine

A user opens the dashboard each morning as their first action.

Greeting card: "Tuesday, May 6". Fine.
Total Productions: 142 (+3 this week). On track.
Active Now: 2, Published this month: 7. As expected.
Needs Attention: 1. Click in — one production stuck at Phase 4 with a render error. Open the production, check the Errors tab, decide to wait for the next auto-retry.
Storage 78%. Make a mental note to clean up next week.
Recent Productions: yesterday's video is Published (good), today's is at Phase 2 review — open it, approve assets, move on.

Total time: ~90 seconds.

Tips & gotchas

Auto-refresh runs every 30s. Tab dots, status indicators, and progress bars update without page reload.
Click-through is everywhere. Most metrics are clickable and filter the Productions listing accordingly.
The dashboard is per-user by default. If you're in an agency, the Agency tab shows team aggregate; if you're a white-label admin, the White Label tab shows tenant aggregate. Your personal dashboard remains your own work.
Storage Panel reflects total usage including Trash. Items in the Asset Library trash count toward your limit until permanently deleted (auto-purged at 20 days, or manual). See Asset Library.
Avg Duration depends on data. If you have very few completed productions, the metric may be noisy.
The Queue tile shows your render-slot situation. If you see "awaiting slot" a lot, your concurrent-production cap is the bottleneck — see your plan limits.