Landscape Dashboard

Reference build for the trades dashboard series. Full crew management, job scheduling, equipment tracking, invoicing, client CRM, and analytics. Role-based security with owner/admin/crew permissions.

The Landscape Dashboard is the reference build for all trades dashboards. It establishes the architecture that HVAC, Plumbing, Construction, Steel, and Mechanic dashboards will follow: 49 database tables, 67 HTML templates, 180+ route decorators, and role-based security with three tiers (owner, admin, crew).

The security model enforces permissions at the route level — crew members can view their assigned jobs and submit timesheets, admins can manage schedules and clients, owners see everything including financials. Each role has a different dashboard view with only the tools they need.

Job scheduling integrates with weather data to prevent dispatching crews during storms or extreme conditions. The system pulls forecasts and flags jobs that might need rescheduling, showing warnings on the dispatch board.

The analytics dashboard aggregates data across all 49 tables: revenue by client, crew utilization rates, equipment maintenance schedules, job completion rates, and seasonal trends. Everything a landscaping company owner needs to run their business from one screen.

The Landscape Dashboard was the first complete trades dashboard — and the hardest to build because there was no template to follow. Every decision about database schema, security model, and UI layout became the pattern for every dashboard after it.

The biggest challenge was the role-based security. In a landscaping company, the owner needs to see financials, the admin needs to manage the schedule, and the crew just needs to know where to show up. Building three different views of the same data without duplicating code required careful template architecture.

Weather integration was an afterthought that turned out to be one of the most valuable features. Landscaping is entirely weather-dependent — dispatching a crew to mow lawns in a thunderstorm wastes everyone's time. Having the system flag weather conflicts automatically saves real money.

At 12,000+ lines with 49 database tables and 67 templates, this is the most thoroughly built dashboard in the series. It serves as proof that the architecture scales — every future trades dashboard follows this same pattern.