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The Dashboard

Awaiting review. Converted automatically from the retired kotahi.community documentation (archived 13 July 2026). The steps and screenshots have not yet been checked against a current Kotahi release and may be out of date. Converted from docs.kotahi.community/getting-started/dashboard.html.

In this section

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  • An Indepth Look At All Features
  • Automated Ingestions
  • Chat Functionality

The Dashboard shows you the research objects you are assigned to.

Kotahi Dashboard with tabs ‘My Submissions’, ‘To Review’ and ‘Manuscripts I’m Editor of’; the submissions table lists four entries with manuscript numbers, titles, ‘UNSUBMITTED’ or ‘PUBLISHED’ status badges, and created and updated dates.

Here you can see all the research objects for each role within the group. The above example displays 3 tabs:

  1. My Submissions - the list of research objects submitted or created within the group
  2. To Review - the list of research objects to review
  3. Manuscripts I’m an editor of - the list of research objects for which you are an editor / curator

Within each of those tabs there is a list which is different according to the tab selected:

My Submissions

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In the My Submissions tab (the tab displayed by default) the following columns are shown:

  1. Manuscript ID - the unique identifier (created automatically by Kotahi) for each research object
  2. Title - the title of the research object
  3. Status - the status of the research object (see below)
  4. Created - the date of creation/submission
  5. Updated - the date when something was last changed

To Review

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In the To Review tab the following columns are shown:

  1. Manuscript ID - the unique identifier (created automatically by Kotahi) for each research object
  2. Title - the title of the research object
  3. Your Status - the status of the invitation.

Manuscripts I’m an editor of

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Dashboard on the ‘Manuscripts I’m editor of’ tab, showing columns for Manuscript Number, Title, Status, Version, Reviewer Status as green numbered circles, Last Status Update, and Actions links ‘DECISION’ and ‘TEAM’.

In the Manuscripts I’m an editor of tab the following columns are shown:

  1. Manuscript ID - the unique identifier (created automatically by Kotahi) for each research object
  2. Title - the title of the research object
  3. Status - the status of the research object (see below)
  4. Reviewer Status - a graphical status display of the reviewer process
  5. Updated - the date when something was last changed
  6. Updated - the date when something was last changed
  7. Actions - a link to the control panel and team pages for the research object
  8. Indicator - an icon indicates an overdue task

Sorting

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All columns within each of the Dashboard tabs are sortable. To sort click on the name of the column you wish to sort by, to reverse sort click the same column name again.

Filter

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To filter the Status column, click the dropdown and select the state to be viewed e.g ‘Unsubmitted’. Sorting can be applied on a filtered view.