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Empty States

The welcome view — brand-new project​

When every dataset is empty (no issues, no submittals beyond drafts, no RFIs/NCRs, no milestones, no KPI data), the whole board is replaced by a welcome view:

Welcome view

  • A ghost illustration previews what the dashboard will look like.
  • Three CTA cards — Create Submittal, Create Issue, Create Milestone — each takes you to the matching module to create your first record.
  • A CTA for a module you cannot read is shown disabled with a tooltip explaining the missing permission.

Per-widget empty states​

When only some datasets are empty, the board stays intact and each empty widget shows a compact in-card placeholder:

  • Submittal / Issue chart with no records — "No submittals/issues yet" with a create link; the all-zero stacked bar is hidden.
  • Chart emptied by an active filter — the zeroed donut is kept as-is, with no create link (the project has data; the filter simply matched nothing).
  • RFI / NCR with no rows — a placeholder with no link (RFIs and NCRs are subsets of submittals/issues, not created directly).
  • Milestone timeline with no milestones — a placeholder with a Create Milestone link.
  • KPI tiles with no data — the tiles show N/A (this alone never triggers the welcome view).