Read the Dashboard

Checked against the product’s code on 7 November 2026.

Dashboard is EmDash’s admin home. It brings content counts and recent editing activity together. Use Insights > Analytics for visitor measurement.

Read a demo-site notice

On a site Amadalis has marked as a demo, the Dashboard shows This site is marked as a demo. Visitors can browse and use the cart. Public account registration and claims, emailed sign-in link requests, forms, comments, stock notifications and checkout are refused without saving the submitted details or sending a message.

You can test forms and checkout while signed in as a team member of that site. Consent choices and permitted analytics still work; site-search events omit the typed query. Amadalis manages the demo mark. If the site cannot read the mark, it follows the ordinary site rules. After importing store settings again, ask Amadalis to check it.

Open the right content

The Content card lists the collections, or groups of content records, available on the site.

1. Find the collection you want.
2. Read its published and draft counts as small badges.
3. Open its row to go to that collection.

A badge does not appear when its count is zero. A collection hidden from navigation is also omitted here.

Use a collection’s creation shortcut when it is offered. Upload Media opens the media library. When the Composer manages your pages or posts, the creation shortcut for them opens the Composer’s new page or new post dialog instead of EmDash’s editor. See Pages, posts and media.

Read a publishing warning

When a scheduled entry is overdue and the scheduled publishing check has not run recently, the Dashboard shows Scheduled publishing needs attention. When a publication policy blocked a scheduled entry, it shows Publication policy blocked scheduled content with a link to each entry and its reason; Editors and Admins can Dismiss an entry’s notice.

1. Open the affected content.
2. Read the reason before changing its schedule.

For pages and posts, a refusal at the scheduled time removes the schedule. The draft stays unpublished, or an already live page keeps its published version. Read the reason in Composer before fixing the page and scheduling it again. If the check could not finish, the schedule stays in place for another check.

A time passing is not proof that publication succeeded.

Use the calendar to inspect dates and scheduled changes across collections. Recent Activity is a separate view of content work. For a copilot change, read its receipt and available Undo in the copilot.

An empty Dashboard or a loading error does not mean the site has no content. Read the reported state and refresh if necessary. On a site with no content yet, an Admin may see EmDash’s Moving from another EmDash site? suggestion. Importing a whole site package is not available on Praxis sites: the import is refused and nothing changes. See Imports and transfer.