Metric summary header badges

Show a persistent summary of key workspace metrics as badge indicators in the application header: the number of currently active projects, projects expiring soon, and overbooked employees. These numbers update in real time and provide an at-a-glance health check without opening the Control Panel.

Why this matters

Workspace managers currently need to navigate to specific panels to check capacity or deadline status. Surfacing the three most important signals — active work, upcoming deadlines, and overloaded team members — directly in the header means issues are visible the moment you open the application, not only when you go looking for them.

How it works

Three small badge indicators appear in the application header:

  • Active: Number of projects currently in progress (start ≤ today ≤ end).
  • Expiring: Number of projects ending within the next 14 days (configurable threshold).
  • Overbooked: Number of employees whose assigned project load exceeds their capacity.

Each badge is color-coded by severity (neutral / warning / critical). Clicking a badge navigates to the relevant view or panel. The counts are derived from existing data and require no new data model — only a summary query.