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Beyond the To-Do List: From Execution to Analysis

Managing your daily work is critical, and that’s the job of Workviews. They provide the lists, boards, and timelines you need to interact with and progress your individual 🧊 Objects. But to truly improve your business, you need to step back and see the big picture. You need to identify trends, spot bottlenecks, and measure performance. This requires a different tool—not for doing the work, but for analyzing it. That tool is the Dashboard.

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Workview vs. Dashboard: The Critical Difference

Understanding the distinction between a Workview and a Dashboard is key to using Luklak effectively.

Workview (The Workshop)

Purpose: Execution. A Workview is where you actively work on 🧊 Objects—updating fields, dragging cards, and moving work forward.

Focus: A list of individual work items.

Dashboard (The Control Tower)

Purpose: Analysis. A Dashboard aggregates, calculates, and visualizes data from many 🧊 Objects to provide insights.

Focus: Summaries and trends of work items.
[Image Placeholder: A side-by-side comparison. On the left, a Kanban Workview showing individual task cards. On the right, a Dashboard showing a pie chart, a bar chart, and a counter gadget summarizing the data from that same Kanban board.]

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The Power of a Unified Data Source

In traditional software, building a dashboard that combines data from different departments (like Sales and Operations) requires a complex, costly, and slow ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process. Because all data in Luklak is built on the 🧊 Universal Object, our dashboards can instantly query and aggregate data from any Function or Space across the entire system. Your “Sales” data and “Project” data already speak the same language. This allows you to build truly cross-functional dashboards in minutes, not months.

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A Glimpse of the Possibilities

You build your dashboards by adding and arranging various gadgets, each designed to present data in a specific way. These include powerful tools like:
  • Charts (Pie, Bar, Stacked Bar)
  • Counters & Formulas
  • 1D & 2D Statistics Tables
  • Live Object Lists

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What’s Next?

You now understand the strategic role of Dashboards. The next step is to explore the building blocks you’ll use to create your own insightful reports.