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Customizing the Overview

Arrange the widgets all staff see on this server's Overview, and understand the limits and the tiles that explain themselves.

Customization
Who uses it
Admins and moderators with Edit Overview Layout
Where it lives
Dashboard > Overview > More > Customize overview
Goal
The Overview opens on the widgets your staff actually use, on as many pages as you need.
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Before You Start

  • Discord Manage Server, or the Edit Overview Layout permission granted to your staff role.
  • A tablet or desktop screen: the editor is read-only on a phone.
  • At least one game pack, so the Overview shows the full Command Center.

Steps

  1. Open the editor

    On the Overview, open More in the page header and choose Customize overview. The sidebar becomes the widget menu and every widget on the canvas becomes selectable. Needs you and Tonight stay pinned above the grid for all staff.

  2. Add and arrange widgets

    Search the menu, then choose Add. Drag a widget to move it, or select it and use the arrow keys; hold Shift with an arrow key to resize. The grid is six columns wide and everything repacks upward, so there are never holes.

  3. Set a widget's options

    Select a widget: its controls appear in the bar at the bottom of the editor. Choose Settings to pick its metric, its feed, how many rows it shows, or its text. Apply checks the value before it is kept.

  4. Use pages

    Add up to six pages and give each one a name; staff swipe or use the tabs between them. The first page is always called Home. Each page holds up to forty widgets.

  5. Save, leave or reset

    Save layout stores the layout for all staff on this server. Back to overview asks before it drops unsaved changes, and so does any other link out of the editor. Reset to default, in its own area below the canvas, deletes the saved layout and brings back the default.

  6. Read the tiles that explain themselves

    A widget your plan or your role cannot use shows a short Not available tile to people who can edit the layout, and is hidden from everyone else. A widget GearCheck no longer has shows No longer available and is removed the next time you save.

Check It Worked

  • Reload the Overview: the layout you saved is the one that appears.
  • Open the Overview as a moderator: the widgets they cannot use are simply not there.
  • A saved layout survives a browser refresh and is the same for all staff.
  • Reset to default brings back the default: the 30-day strip, upcoming events, operational areas and recent activity.

Common Pitfalls

  • Two people editing at once: the second save is refused and offers to load the other version or overwrite it. Reload before a long edit.
  • A very long notes widget can push the layout past its size limit; the editor says so before it tries to save.
  • Renaming the first page does nothing: it always shows as Home.