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Dashboard card types explained

Dashboard card types explained


Every custom dashboard is built from cards, and each card does one job - show your live printers, list the queue, plot a statistic over time, take file uploads, and so on. This guide walks through the cards you can add, grouped by what they do, so you can pick the right one when you're building.


Custom dashboards are part of the Print Farm plan, and are included on the Education and Enterprise plans too.


Table of contents

  • Live printer cards
  • Queue cards
  • Approvals and to-do cards
  • Statistics and graphs
  • Maintenance and history
  • Classroom and quick-access cards
  • Spacers and separators
  • Cards that depend on your plan or role
  • Related articles


Live printer cards

These cards show what your fleet is doing right now and update live as things change.


  • Printer status - a live status overview of your printers: what's printing, idle, paused, offline or needing attention.
  • Printers - embedded live printer cards, the same tiles you see on the printers page, complete with webcam feeds where available.
  • Active prints - just the printers that are currently printing, so you can watch jobs in progress without the idle ones in the way.
  • Ready for pickup - finished prints that are done and waiting to be collected, handy for a shared lab or farm where someone needs to clear the bed.


Queue cards

Three cards show the print queue in different shapes, so pick the one that fits your space and how much detail you want.


  • Print queue - the queue as a compact list, good for a narrow column.
  • Print queue table - the queue as a full table with more columns, good when you want to scan details at a glance.
  • Queue timeline - the queue laid out on a time axis, so you can see when jobs are expected to run and finish.


Queue cards can be filtered to your own items or to specific queue groups, and you can choose how many items to show, all from the card's settings.


Approvals and to-do cards

These cards surface things that need a person to act, which is useful for anyone managing an account with multiple members.


  • Approvals to-do - pending print-queue approvals, new members waiting to be let in, and quota requests, all gathered in one place so nothing that needs an admin slips through.
  • Printer to-do - which printers need a filament, nozzle or bed change to match what is currently queued, so you know what to set up next.


Statistics and graphs

These turn your printing data into numbers and trends. They read the dashboard's time period, which viewers can change from a dropdown in the header when a time-based card is present.


  • Statistic - a single headline number, like total jobs, success rate, print time or filament used. You choose the metric and icon, and can set colour thresholds so the number changes colour when it crosses a value you pick. The metric list also includes account-level counts, such as how many people or printers are on the account.
  • Graph - a metric plotted over time, so you can see trends rather than a single figure.


Maintenance and history

  • Maintenance - upcoming and due maintenance tasks for your printers, so servicing doesn't slip.
  • Print history - a record of past prints, shown as a compact list or a full table, with a choice of how many to show and which printers or groups to include.


Classroom and quick-access cards

These cards were built for school and makerspace landing pages, but any account can use them.


  • File upload - a big drag-and-drop upload zone so people can drop a file straight onto the dashboard to get it printing.
  • Quick links - buttons you define that link to pages or resources, a fast way to point people at the things they use most.
  • Bulletin board - short announcements broadcast to everyone who sees the dashboard, for outages, deadlines or open-lab hours.
  • Admins - a directory of the admins and teachers on the account, so people know who to ask for help.


Spacers and separators

Two cards exist only to shape the layout and carry no data:


  • Spacer - blank space to push cards apart or nudge a card onto the next line.
  • Separator - a full-width divider line that can carry a title, so it doubles as a section heading. Use it to split a long dashboard into labelled sections.


Both always span the full width. In rows layout they each sit alone on their own row.


Cards that depend on your plan or role

Not every card is available on every account. A card only shows up in the palette when its underlying feature is on your plan. For example, queue cards need the print queue, the maintenance card needs the maintenance feature, graphs need statistics, and the classroom cards are geared to school accounts. If you import a dashboard that uses a card your plan or role can't run, that card is simply skipped.


Updated on: 11/07/2026

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