Frozen Summary Rows: Live Mini-Dashboards Pinned to Your Grid

What Are Frozen Summary Rows?

Most grids in Standard Time® can pin one or more special rows above the normal data — a row that stays fixed in place while everything below it scrolls. Two of the plainest are Totals at Top and Totals at Bottom, which just sum whatever numeric columns are currently visible. This page covers four different, much richer special rows: Gantt Mini-Map, Mini WIP, Clocked In/Out, and Team Capacity. Rather than a static number, each one is a small live dashboard — cards, rings, or bars you can read at a glance, click to jump into filtered detail, and that (mostly) keep themselves up to date without you doing anything.

All four are per-grid settings, not something everyone on your team is forced to see — turn on the ones that help your workflow and leave the rest off.

Turning One On

Every one of these rows is controlled from the same place: the grid's Settings panel, under a category named Special rows. Each row has its own setting with three choices — No, Top, or Bottom — so you can pin it above the column headers, below the last row, or leave it off entirely.

Gantt Mini-Map only draws its bars once the grid's own Gantt column is inserted — with no Gantt column present it shows a short reminder instead. Team Capacity needs the grid filtered down to between one and five projects to compute anything; filtered to zero or too many projects, it shows guidance text telling you to narrow the filter, rather than disappearing outright.

Gantt Mini-Map — Pan the Whole Project at a Glance

On the Project Tasks grid, once a Gantt column is inserted, the Gantt Mini-Map row draws a compressed strip of every task's bar — one thin bar per row, lined up top-to-bottom to match the grid beneath it, colored the same as the real Gantt bars. A vertical line marks today's date. A highlighted rectangle shows exactly which slice of that full project timeline your real Gantt column is currently scrolled to.

The rectangle is interactive three different ways:

• Drag it to pan the real Gantt chart to a different part of the timeline.
• Drag either edge to zoom the real Gantt chart in or out — the left edge moves the window's start date, the right edge changes how many days are visible.
• Click the row, then use the arrow keys to nudge the window left or right; hold Shift for a bigger jump. Holding a key down repeats the nudge automatically.

Unlike the other three rows, Gantt Mini-Map never makes its own server request — it redraws instantly from the same task data already loaded into the grid, so panning and zooming feel immediate.

Mini WIP — Shop Floor Progress at a Glance

On the Time Logs grid, the Mini WIP row shows one progress ring per open job matching the grid's current date filter: percent complete, total hours logged, the last task scanned against it, and a small green dot while a timer is actively running on it. Ring color follows the same green/yellow/red convention as the full Work In Progress grid — under 75% green, 75–99% yellow, 100% or more red.

A toggle button cycles the row through All Jobs, Running (only jobs with an active timer), and Idle (only jobs with none) — a per-viewer preference remembered in your own browser, not something that changes what anyone else sees. A Full WIP button opens the complete Work In Progress grid. Clicking any ring opens a new Time Logs tab filtered to that job, carrying forward whatever date range the grid was already filtered to.

Clocked In/Out — Who's on the Clock Right Now

Also on the Time Logs grid, the Clocked In/Out row is a live floor roster: one card per employee, showing their name and — for anyone currently clocked in — hours elapsed since they started (updating live, once a second, with no server call needed for the ticking number itself) and which project or task they're on.

Clicking a clocked-in card opens a new Time Logs tab filtered to that person's currently running timer; clicking a clocked-out card filters to that person only, since there's no running timer to jump to. The underlying list refreshes from the server about every five minutes, same as Mini WIP.

Team Capacity — Resource Allocation, Pinned

Team Capacity is a compact version of the full Resource Allocation chart, scoped to whatever one to five projects your grid is currently filtered to. Each bar represents one time period and is colored the same green/yellow/red/gray language as the full chart, so a shop-floor viewer reads it the same way either place.

Click a bar for a toast showing its record count and total allocated hours; double-click it to open the underlying project tasks in their own grid — the same click and double-click behavior the full Resource Allocation chart's own bars already have. This row polls the server the least often of the four, about every ten minutes, since its underlying calculation is the heaviest of the group.

How These Rows Handle Crowding

Mini WIP and Clocked In/Out can end up needing to show anywhere from one job or employee to well over a hundred, in a pinned row that has no scrollbar of its own. Rather than let a card get cut off mid-edge or force the row to grow without bound, each one automatically picks the densest layout that still fits: full cards or rings when there's room, small wrapping chips (name and percent only) once there are more items than fit in one row, and — in extreme cases — a single scrolling line of plain text, clipped at the edge like a stock ticker rather than broken mid-card.

Team Capacity and Gantt Mini-Map don't need this — Team Capacity always shows a fixed, small number of bars for the periods in view, and Gantt Mini-Map's compressed bars simply get thinner as more tasks are loaded rather than needing a separate layout at all.

Minimize, Restore, and Close

Every one of these rows carries the same small cluster of controls in its corner:

• Minimize (−) — collapses the row to a thin strip without turning it off, useful when you just need the grid rows below it for a moment. Your choice is remembered in your browser, so it stays minimized the next time you open that grid.
• Restore — a small square icon that appears once minimized, bringing the row back to its previous height.
• Close (×) — turns the row off completely, the same as setting it back to No in the grid's Settings panel. Turn it back on the same way you turned it on.

Every row also remembers a height you drag-resize it to, and Gantt Mini-Map defaults noticeably taller than the others (about four times a normal row) to leave enough vertical room for its compressed bars to read clearly.

How This Differs From Totals at Top/Bottom (and Every Other Special Row)

"Special rows" is a broader family in Standard Time® than just the four covered on this page. Most of the others are simple, static summary rows — they show a fixed number, recalculated only when the grid's filter changes, with no polling, no toggle, and nothing to click through. The four on this page are a different, richer kind: small live dashboards that refresh themselves on a timer, offer a mode toggle, and open filtered detail when you click into them.

For curiosity's sake, here's the full family of special rows a Standard Time® grid can pin, simple and interactive alike:

In short: reach for Totals (and its Timesheet-only cousins) when you just need a number pinned in view. Reach for one of the four rows on this page when you want an actual, clickable status board — shop floor progress, who's on the clock, the schedule at a glance, or team capacity — without leaving the grid you're already working in.