Command Center

The Command Center (CC) is the operator’s dashboard for show day. Open it on a screen at the venue, glance at the tiles, drill into a drawer for detail. Designed to never make you leave the page.

Where to find it

/t/<slug>/events/<id>/command-center — accessible from any event whose status is IN_EXECUTION or COMPLETED, or whose start date is today-or-earlier. You can also open it for PLANNING events to preview, with a read-only banner.

The tiles

Top row, left to right:

• Registrations — count + % of expected capacity. Updates every 30 s.
• Revenue today — paid-today subset of issued invoices.
• On-time staff — count of check-in shifts that started ≤ 5 min late.
• Live incidents — count of OPEN incident rows. Click to open the incidents list.

Below the tiles, a flexible grid surfaces:

• Agenda — current and next session per track.
• Sponsors — count by status (Confirmed / Pending / Dropped).
• Speakers — count + thumbstrip of attendees with arrival/departure flags.
• Open tasks — tasks due today (BullMQ-backed), inline edit + status cycle from the drawer.
• Designs — uploaded mockup PDFs for review during the show.
• Floor plan — booth assignment progress + drawer to live-edit.
• Delivery checklist — proof-of-delivery items, pass/fail/issue.
• Weather — current conditions for the venue city.
• Arrivals & departures — speaker flight schedule.

Empty tiles render as — so the dashboard layout stays stable.

Drawers (vs. nav-away)

Most tiles open a right-side drawer rather than navigating away. This is deliberate — once you’re in the CC you should never have to leave it. The drawer pattern is consistent: backdrop click closes, Escape closes, unsaved changes prompt before closing.

The current drawers:

• Floor plan editor — full booth-assignment canvas + catalog inline.
• Agenda — quick session edit, conflict warnings.
• Sponsors — add/edit/remove sponsors for the event.
• Open tasks — full task list with create/edit/cycle status.
• Speakers — manage attached speakers, accommodation + flight logistics.
• Delivery checklist — mark items delivered, attach photo proof, leave notes. Doubles as the “Download Delivery Report” PDF source.
• Designs — preview uploaded designs full-screen.

Each drawer’s data is pre-loaded with the page render so opening is instant even on slow connections.

Refresh and freshness

The CC auto-refreshes every 30 s via router.refresh(). The footer shows Last refresh and Refresh in Ns so you know how stale the numbers are. You can disable auto-refresh with the toggle in the corner if you’re presenting on a screen and don’t want flickers.

Read-only mode

If you visit the CC before the event hits IN_EXECUTION, every drawer renders read-only with a banner explaining why. Operators on the day can flip the event status from PLANNING → IN_EXECUTION from the event detail page; the CC unlocks the moment that lands.

Tips

• Fullscreen it — press F to enter browser fullscreen for a single always-on display.
• Pin the tab in your browser so a tab-restore doesn’t bury it.
• One tab per event — open multiple events in separate tabs if your team is running two shows the same week.