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Review events overview and risk indicators

Use the Events Overview widget to understand event volumes, categories, stages and risk indicators across your projects.

Audience

This guide is designed for project manager.

Steps​

Step 1: Open the dashboard containing the Events Overview widget​

Navigate to the PlanOps dashboard page where the Events Overview widget is available and confirm the card is visible in the widgets grid. If data is still loading you will see skeleton placeholders instead of figures.

Open the dashboard containing the Events Overview widget

Step 2: Check the total number of events and proactive vs reactive breakdown​

At the top of the widget, review the total number of events alongside the counts for proactive and reactive events to understand how issues are being managed across your projects.

Check the total number of events and proactive vs reactive breakdown

Step 3: Review events by type and category​

Look at the event breakdown by type and by category, using the coloured indicators to see which categories such as safety, programme, cost or quality are generating the most activity.

Review events by type and category

Step 4: Assess events by stage in the lifecycle​

Examine the stage distribution to see how many events are identified, assessed, mitigating, under monitoring or closed, helping you judge overall progress on managing events.

Assess events by stage in the lifecycle

Step 5: Evaluate impact, expected value and risk indicators​

Use the total estimated impact, total expected value and counts of high-likelihood, high-impact and imminent events to prioritise attention on the highest-risk areas.

Evaluate impact, expected value and risk indicators

Step 6: Refresh the widget data​

Select the refresh control on the widget to request the latest events summary from the backend and update the figures and charts shown.

Refresh the widget data

Last updated: 2026-07-16