Hub Guide
How the Dashboard Hub works — what you're looking at, what Certified, Community and Sandbox mean, and how a dashboard gets certified.
What the Hub is
The Dashboard Hub is the one place to find 10 Federal dashboards. Most are built on Lodestar, our company data model, so the numbers come from the same source of truth.
Anyone at 10 Federal can build and share a dashboard. That's powerful — but it means not every dashboard has been reviewed. The tiers below tell you how much to trust what you're looking at.
Certified · Community · Sandbox
Every dashboard falls into one of three tiers. You'll see the tier as a badge on each card and as sections in the left-hand Library.
Reviewed and trusted. A Hub admin has reviewed the dashboard, confirmed who owns it, and signed off on its data quality. Use these for decisions.
Hover the badge to see who certified it and when.
Shared, not reviewed. Published by a colleague so others can use it, but nobody has formally verified it. Often useful — check the numbers with the owner before relying on them.
Most dashboards start here.
Your private drafts. Only you (and Hub admins) can see a dashboard in My Sandbox. Use it to build and test before sharing.
Sandbox dashboards can't be certified until they're published.
Tip: In the Library, the Certified and Community headers can be collapsed. If a section shows SHOW, tap the header to see the categories inside it.
How certification works
- Build and publish. The owner publishes the dashboard to a category. It appears as Community.
- Request a review. In Settings → Manage Dashboards, open the dashboard's ⋯ menu → Request certification…. Say what it shows, who it's for, where the data comes from and how often it updates, then confirm you own and maintain it. It shows ⏳ In review while it waits.
- Admin review. A Hub admin picks it up in their Approvals queue, opens the dashboard, and checks the data, metrics and quality against your answers.
- Decision. The admin approves it (the Hub records their name and the date) or declines it with a reason. You'll see the outcome under Your certification requests on the Manage tab. If it was declined, fix what the reviewer flagged and request again.
- Certified. An approved dashboard gets the ✓ Certified badge and moves to the Certified section.
Changed your mind? You can withdraw a request from the same ⋯ menu while it's waiting.
When a dashboard loses certification
- An admin un-certifies it (for example, the data source changed or it's no longer maintained).
- Its content is re-uploaded by someone who isn't an admin — it drops back to Community until an admin re-reviews it.
Categories & folders
Dashboards are organized like folders on your computer. A category (Finance, Operations, Marketing…) is the parent folder. Inside it, subfolders group related reports.
- Click a category in the Library to see all of its dashboards.
- Categories with subfolders show an arrow — expand it to jump straight to a subfolder.
- A category's colored dot is the same everywhere in the Hub, so you can recognize it at a glance.
Restricted folders
Most categories are open to everyone at 10 Federal. A few — such as Finance — are restricted to a specific group of people.
- If you aren't in that group, the folder and its dashboards don't appear for you at all.
- You can always see dashboards you published, even in a restricted folder.
- Need access? Ask a Hub admin — access is managed in Settings → Access.
Live vs. Static
- Live dashboards are connected to Lodestar through the Hub. They pull current numbers when you open or refresh them.
- Static dashboards are snapshots — the data was captured when the dashboard was built and doesn't change until it's republished.
Check the date on a Static dashboard before using its numbers.
Finding dashboards
- Search (top bar) looks across titles, descriptions, categories and folders.
- Favorites: click the ☆ on any dashboard to pin it to your Favorites.
- Library: browse by tier, then category, then subfolder.
- Inside a category, use the Certified / Community / Both toggle to narrow the list.
Publishing your own
- Upload your dashboard from Settings → Publish. Put it in My Sandbox while you're testing.
- When it's ready, open its ⋯ → Edit menu and choose a real category. It's now shared as Community.
- Make sure the title and description say clearly what it shows — that's the first thing a reviewer checks.
- Use ⋯ → Request certification… to get it certified.
Who can change it? Only you, the owner, or a Hub admin can edit, move, replace or delete your dashboard. Your dashboards are listed under Settings → Manage Dashboards. If a dashboard should belong to someone else (for example, you published it for a colleague), ask a Hub admin to reassign the owner.
Dashboard tours (?)
Some dashboards have a ? button in the viewer's top bar. Click it and C-Unit walks you through that dashboard, pointing at each key number, filter and chart and explaining what it means.
Adding a tour to your own dashboard: there's nothing to switch on in the Hub. The tour is part of the dashboard's HTML, so if you ask Claude's Dashboard Builder to "add a C-Unit tour", the ? button appears as soon as you publish the dashboard. The tips are plain attributes on the elements they describe:
<div class="kpi" data-unit-title="Occupancy"
data-unit-tip="Units rented ÷ rentable units, as of last night."
data-unit-step="1">…</div>data-unit-step sets the order (optional), and data-unit-intro on <body> adds an opening message. Tips are plain text. Elements that aren't on screen, such as a hidden tab, are skipped.
Certifier playbook For Hub admins
Certification is a promise to the company that a dashboard can be trusted. Before you sign off, confirm:
- Owner and team — there's a named person who maintains it and answers questions.
- Data source — it uses the right Lodestar model, tables and filters.
- Numbers — spot-check a few key figures against a source you trust.
- Clarity — the title and description say what it shows and who it's for.
- No obvious errors — signs, date ranges, duplicates, blank or stale values.
Reviewing requests: Settings → Approvals lists everything waiting, oldest first, with the owner's answers. Open the dashboard, run the checks above, then Approve & certify or Decline. A decline needs a reason; the owner sees it, so say what to fix. A request flagged Changed since submitted was re-uploaded after the owner asked, so review the current version.
Certifying directly: admins can still use Settings → Manage Dashboards → ⋯ → Certify… without a request, for example for dashboards they own.
To un-certify: same menu → Un-certify. Do this when the data source changes, the owner leaves, or the dashboard stops being maintained.
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