# Reading the Widgets

What each panel on the dashboard is counting, and the figure on it worth acting on.

Each widget is a saved question with its own scope. Two of them are about today whatever the page period says, and one is live.

## Today's Snapshot

![The Today's Snapshot widget. A doughnut chart shows 13 Total, mostly green with smaller red, purple and amber segments, beside a legend reading Checked In 11, Checked Out 0, Yet to Check In 0, Late 1, On Leave 1 and Absent 1, each with an icon.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/worklink/overview/todays-snapshot.png)

*Thirteen people, six states. The donut and the legend are the same numbers twice.*

The six states here are a subset of the seven Presence uses, and they add up to the total. **Yet to Check In** is the one to read in the morning; **Absent** is the one to read in the afternoon, because by then it means somebody never arrived rather than has not arrived yet.

> **Note:**
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> **Late is counted inside Checked In, not beside it**
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> Somebody late is also somebody present, so the two figures overlap. The donut segments are the states; Late is a flag on top of one of them, which is why the six numbers can look as though they over-count.

## Department Turnout

![The Department Turnout widget, with a date stepper reading Today. Horizontal bars in different colours list Operations at 3 of 3, Engineering and Maintenance at 2 of 2, Finance at 2 of 2, Health and Safety at 1 of 1 and People and HR at 1 of 1, each bar full. A Show All (8) link sits at the foot.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/worklink/overview/department-turnout.png)

*Present over expected, per department, ranked. A short bar is a team to ask about.*

Departments are ranked by turnout rather than listed alphabetically, so the ones needing attention rise to the top on a bad day. **Show All** expands past the five shown.

## Presence

![The Presence widget, headed Presence with a green 11 live indicator and an arrow. It lists employees with their check-in times and a status pill each: Ruth Alderman at 08:33 AM, Bethan Lloyd at 08:32 AM, Nita Chakraborty at 08:31 AM and Marcus Thorne at 08:30 AM all Checked In, Fiona Kerr at 08:27 AM marked Late, Dermot Lynch at 05:55 AM Checked In, and Kwame Boateng marked Absent.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/worklink/overview/presence-widget.png)

*Live, and ranked by what needs attention rather than alphabetically. The arrow opens the full Presence screen.*

This is the only widget that changes without a refresh, and the **5 live** count is the number currently checked in. It is ordered by what needs looking at, so late arrivals surface above people who simply worked their day.

## Shift Coverage

![The Shift Coverage widget, with an All shifts (5) link. A timeline runs from 12 AM through 6 AM, 12 PM, 6 PM to 12 AM with a dashed red line marking the current time. Five shifts are listed with their spans and staffing: Day Shift 6 AM to 2 PM at 1 of 2, Trade Counter 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM at 0 of 0, Office Standard 8:30 AM to 5 PM at 10 of 11, Back Shift 2 PM to 10 PM at 0 of 0 and Night Shift 10 PM to 6 AM at 0 of 0. A legend under it names Checked In, Late, Checked Out, Checked Out (Auto), Yet to Check In, Leave, Absent and Current time.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/worklink/overview/shift-coverage.png)

*Present over assigned, laid out against the clock. The dashed red line is now.*

> **Tip:**
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> **A shift reading 0 of 0 is unstaffed, not understaffed**
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> The second number is how many people are assigned to that pattern. Zero of zero means nobody is rostered on it at all, which on a Back Shift or a Night Shift is either correct or a rota that was never set up. It is not the same as 0 of 6.

## Pending Approvals

![The Pending Approvals widget with three count chips reading 5 Leave, 5 Reg and 1 Sep. Rows list Eleanor Whitfield with Annual Leave from 26 to 30 October for 5 days, Meredith Vaughan with a Retirement resignation on 2 September, Fiona Kerr forgot to clock in on 21 August, and Hazel Bidwell forgot to clock out on 25 August, each with a Review button.](https://www.sorviai.com/help/worklink/overview/pending-approvals.png)

*Three kinds of decision in one queue. The chips are the counts; the rows are the work.*

*The Pending Approvals chips*

> **Note:**
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> **Review opens the record, not a shortcut approval**
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> The button takes you to the request in the module that owns it, where the decision carries its full context. Nothing on the dashboard approves anything directly, which is deliberate: an approval made without reading the reason is the one that gets disputed later.