iptvnator/docs/architecture/workspace-dashboard.md

# Workspace Dashboard

This document records the current dashboard implementation inside the workspace
shell.

Related:

- [Workspace Shell](./workspace-shell.md)

## Summary

- The dashboard is the default `/workspace` landing page.
- It is a **rail-based** content surface (Netflix / Apple TV pattern), not a
  customizable widget grid.
- Layout order is static and curated — there is no edit mode, drag-drop, or
  size stepper. Each rail has a persisted show/hide toggle
  (`Settings.dashboardRails`, `DashboardRailsSettings` in
  `libs/shared/interfaces/src/lib/settings.interface.ts`, surfaced under
  Settings → Dashboard); every template rail is gated by
  `dashboardRails().<key>`. Rails additionally auto-hide when empty.
- First-run users see the shared welcome empty-state with a single primary
  CTA to add their first playlist.

Core implementation:

1. `libs/workspace/dashboard/feature/src/lib/rails/workspace-dashboard-rails.component.ts`
   — the page-level facade.
2. `libs/workspace/dashboard/feature/src/lib/rails/dashboard-rail.component.ts`
   — the reusable horizontal rail.
3. `libs/workspace/dashboard/data-access/src/lib/dashboard-data.service.ts`
   — data aggregation (recent items, favorites, playlist stats). Shared across
   rails.
4. `libs/playlist/shared/ui/src/lib/recent-playlists/empty-state/empty-state.component.ts`
   — reused welcome state with the primary "Add your first playlist" CTA.

## Page Structure

```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Hero — rotating cinematic banner (resume · live · discovery)       │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Continue Watching · See all →                                      │
│  [poster][poster][poster][poster] →→                                │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Live now on your favorites · See all →                             │
│  [channel][channel][channel][channel] →→                            │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Recently watched live TV · See all →                               │
│  [channel][channel][channel][channel] →→                            │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Favorite movies & series · See all →                               │
│  [poster][poster][poster][poster] →→                                │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Recently Used Sources · See all →                                  │
│  [tile][tile][tile][tile] →→                                        │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Recently Added on Xtream (aggregated across providers)             │
│  [poster][poster][poster] →→                                        │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Because you watched X (TMDB, opt-in, Electron-only)                │
│  [poster][poster][poster] →→                                        │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Trending this week (TMDB, opt-in, Electron-only)                   │
│  [poster][poster][poster] →→                                        │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

Render rules:

1. Dashboard rails render independently as their data sources resolve. The
   page no longer uses `dashboardReady()` as a page-wide skeleton gate.
   Initial hero/recent/favorites loading states render scoped skeletons so one
   slow rail does not hide already available content.
2. `hasPlaylists() === false` → render `<app-empty-state [type]="'welcome-dashboard'">`
   full-bleed. All rails and the hero are skipped.
3. The hero (`lib-dashboard-hero`) renders when it has at least one slide;
   see [Cinematic Hero](#cinematic-hero). It shows its own skeleton while
   the first history load runs. An item enters recent history only after
   its stream has really played (see "Recently Viewed Confirmation" in
   `embedded-inline-playback.md`), so a channel that failed at once never
   becomes a hero slide.
4. Each rail is emitted via `@if (cards.length > 0)`. Empty rails are hidden
   — there is no "empty widget" placeholder.
5. Hero slides prefer a stored `backdrop_url`, then the TMDB backdrop; when
   both are missing the poster becomes a blurred wash plus key art on the
   right instead of a flat panel.
6. Live favorites are promoted into their own live rail; movie/series
   favorites render in a separate `Favorite movies & series` rail
   (`favoriteMoviesAndSeriesCards`, `data-test-id="dashboard-favorite-vod-rail"`,
   mapped from `globalFavoriteItems()` filtered to movie/series). Full mixed
   favorites management stays on `/workspace/global-favorites`.
7. The live favorites rail keeps its scoped skeleton until the initial global
   favorites load has completed for both Xtream-backed and playlist-backed
   favorites. This avoids first-paint partial counts such as a single Stalker
   favorite appearing before M3U favorites finish resolving.

## Cinematic Hero

`DashboardHeroComponent` renders a full-bleed banner: it cancels the page's
`--dashboard-gutter`/top padding and the centred `--dashboard-max-width`
(the page host is the `dashboard` inline-size container), keeps
`clamp(320px, 42vh, 520px)` so the first rail starts above the fold, and uses
`--app-content-bg` as its scrim so it dissolves into the page in both themes.

Slides (`pickDashboardHeroSources`, at most four, stable order, each title
once):

1. the newest unfinished movie/series (`isPortalPlaybackWatched` rows skip);
2. a live channel with a programme on air — the first of
   `selectDashboardHeroLiveCandidates` (up to three favourites, then two
   recently watched channels) whose EPG answer has a title;
3. one favourite movie/series and one Xtream recently-added title;
4. remaining places round-robin over the next items of those lists;
5. only when nothing qualifies, the newest history row of any kind (a
   detail action: it can be a finished title).

While live candidates exist but none has answered yet, one place stays
reserved for the live slide, so its late arrival never evicts a slide the
user may be viewing.

The live candidates are derived and pinned by `DashboardLiveEpgPresenter`
itself (XMLTV lookup and portal queue), independent of the live rails, so the
slide works with those rails hidden. Actions: a resume slide keeps the resume
handoff and adds a detail-only "Details" when a series episode can resume;
discovery slides open the detail page; live slides open the channel. TMDB
extras (backdrop, rating, genres, overview, year) come from
`DashboardHeroTmdbService` per featured title and vanish when TMDB is off.

Rotation is the active dot's CSS fill animation (8 s); its `animationend`
advances. Hover, focus inside the hero and the pause button pause it; an
explicit Play clears the hover/focus pause until they re-arm; under
`prefers-reduced-motion` nothing auto-advances. The active slide is tracked
by id, so a late live slide never moves the user off the current one. Test
hooks: `dashboard-hero`, `dashboard-hero-slide` (`data-hero-kind`),
`dashboard-hero-dot`, `dashboard-hero-pause`,
`dashboard-hero-primary-action`, `dashboard-hero-secondary-action`.

## Rail Contract

`DashboardRailComponent` is purely presentational:

1. Inputs: `label`, `items: DashboardRailCard[]`, optional `seeAllLink`,
   optional `aspectRatio` (default `'2 / 3'`), optional `testId`.
2. Behavior: horizontal flex track with `scroll-snap-type: x mandatory`.
3. Chevron buttons fade in on hover (desktop only via `@media (hover: none)`).
4. Cards are keyboard-focusable router links; `scroll-snap-align: start`
   means arrow-key nav lands on card boundaries.
5. Image handling: `loading="lazy"`, `decoding="async"`, fallback icon tile
   when `imageUrl` is missing or `error` fires.
6. Dashboard hero, rail containers, rail cards, and "Manage all" links expose
   stable `data-test-id` hooks. Treat these as the supported Electron E2E
   selector surface; do not target internal CSS class names.

## Data Flow

1. `WorkspaceDashboardRailsComponent` injects `DashboardDataService`.
2. It derives the dashboard surface via `computed()`:
    1. The hero slides — built by `DashboardHeroSlidesPresenter`, see
       [Cinematic Hero](#cinematic-hero).
    2. `continueWatchingCards` — maps `globalRecentVodItems()` to movie/series
       cover cards. Portal playback positions are bulk-loaded per playlist so
       hero and cards can show progress, remaining time, and series season/
       episode badges. Whether an item is looked up as a movie (one `vod`
       row) or a series (episode rows under the parent id) is its WATCH
       kind, `resolvePortalActivityWatchKind`, not its routing `type`. The
       shape that needs the distinction is a Stalker embedded-VOD row: its
       stored entry carries a `series[]` episode array but no `is_series`
       flag, so `extractStalkerItemType` reports `movie` (deliberately — the
       item belongs in the VOD catalog) while its progress lives in episode
       rows. The mappers give both it and a lazy Ministra `is_series` row
       (already typed `series`) `watch_kind: 'series'`. Series lookup uses
       keyed maps for both direct episode ids and parent series ids; card
       renders must not scan the full playback-position map. The badge uses saved `seasonNumber` /
       `episodeNumber` metadata and does not infer it from provider payloads;
       legacy rows without that metadata remain badge-less until replay.
       Dashboard-originated Xtream and Stalker series clicks also carry that
       exact episode target through the global-recent inline-detail handoff.
       Once the series metadata and playback positions load, the detail player
       consumes the target once and resumes the saved episode. Opening the same
       item normally from the global recent grid remains a detail-only action.
       Continue Watching cards carry no provider/content-kind subtitle: their
       meta row is the S·E chip plus a "N min left" label (`remainingLabel`,
       from `formatRemainingLabel`), and the row is not rendered when both are
       absent. The hero subtitle is the source name alone, through
       `playlistDisplayLabel`.
    3. `liveFavoriteCardsEnriched` and `recentLiveCardsEnriched` — two
       independent rails (`dashboard-live-favorites-rail` and
       `dashboard-recent-live-rail`); there is no fallback from one to the
       other. M3U cards carry an `epg_lookup_key` using the app-wide XMLTV
       fallback order (`tvg-id` -> `tvg-name` -> channel name); EPG enrichment
       must use that key before falling back to the card title. Both rails are
       enriched by `DashboardLiveEpgPresenter`, the one component-provided
       facade for live EPG: it owns the XMLTV lookup described under "Scoped
       lookups" in `m3u-playlist-module.md`, forwards everything portal-shaped
       to `DashboardPortalLiveEpgPresenter`, and `enrich()` returns the cards
       with their "now on air" row filled in.
       Xtream and Stalker cards have no XMLTV key of their own; their "now on
       air" line comes from the portal, **lazily and per card**:
        - `buildDashboardPortalLiveEpgEntry` (dashboard data-access) turns a
          live `PortalActivityItem` into the `UnifiedCollectionItem` the
          collection pages hand `StreamResolverService.loadEpgForItems`, keyed
          by the collection uid — favourites and recent rows of one channel
          share the answer. Radio rows and rows without a usable provider id
          get no entry. Cards carry that key as `liveEpgSourceKey`.
        - `lib-dashboard-rail` reports the cards inside its track viewport
          (plus ~one card of `rootMargin`) through `visibleCardsChanged`, from
          an `IntersectionObserver` rooted at the track; without the API every
          card counts as visible. Cards that leave the list are reported gone
          at once.
        - `DashboardPortalLiveEpgPresenter` (component-provided) unions the
          visible keys of both rails with the pinned hero keys and calls
          `DashboardPortalLiveEpgService.sync()` with exactly those entries —
          on every change, on the 30 s tick, and on a display-offset change.
          It is reached through `DashboardLiveEpgPresenter`, which derives the
          portal rows itself from the enabled rails and pins the hero's live
          candidates, so the page component only forwards what a rail can see. The queue lives in
          the root service, so leaving the dashboard hands the wanted set back
          (`sync([])` on destroy); otherwise the queue would keep asking for
          cards on a page that is gone.
        - `DashboardPortalLiveEpgService` (root) owns the queue: at most two
          requests in flight, 200 ms between starts (the numbers
          `EpgQueueService` proved against real panels), one card per request,
          each answer published the moment it lands in `programs`, so the page
          never waits and a slow portal delays no other card. Only wanted keys
          are dequeued, so a card scrolled past before its turn is never
          requested. A programme lives 60 s; a programme that ended is asked
          again, but not within 30 s of the last answer (a portal may keep
          returning the stale row). An answer with **no** programme lives only
          30 s, because the resolver reports a failed portal and a guide-less
          channel identically (it files per-channel failures as `null`), so
          there is no failure cooldown to keep and the short TTL is what lets
          an outage recover on the next tick.
        - Every answer is "at the provider clock" and against one XMLTV source
          set. A request captures both the display offset and
          `EpgSourceSettingsService.revision()` — the same fence
          `EpgService.guard()` uses — and a completion whose either fact moved
          is discarded and requeued instead of published. That requeue has to
          happen in the completion: while the key is in flight the retire pass
          cannot queue a replacement, and without it the pre-change answer
          would be trusted for a full TTL (the repo's late-result
          invalidation contract).
        - Desktop only in practice: the shared collection resolver is gated on
          the local XMLTV bridge (`supportsProgramLookup`) and answers nothing
          without it, so `sync()` returns immediately in the PWA rather than
          filing an empty answer for every card. Lifting that gate for portal
          lookups would change the collection pages too and is deliberately
          out of scope here.
        - `DashboardLiveEpgPresenter.enrich()` prefers the portal answer, falls
          back to the XMLTV title match when the portal said "nothing on air",
          and marks a card
          `nowPlayingState: 'pending'` only before its FIRST answer — the
          channel layout then shows a shimmer placeholder in the programme
          slot; a refresh keeps the previous answer on screen.
    4. `xtreamRecentlyAddedCards` — maps `xtreamRecentlyAddedItems()` to rail
       cards. Aggregates newly added VOD and series across *all* Xtream
       playlists via `DashboardDataService.reloadXtreamRecentlyAddedItems()`,
       which calls `getGlobalRecentlyAdded('all', limit, 'xtream')` with the
       DB-level `playlists.type = 'xtream'` filter. The rail is Electron-only
       (PWA returns `[]`) and auto-hides when empty, so users without Xtream
       playlists never see it. Cards carry the source name as their subtitle
       (`playlistDisplayLabel`) so users can tell where each item was added;
       the content kind is not repeated on every card. Driven by an
       effect that re-runs whenever the Xtream playlist count changes, but the
       first run waits for `globalFavoritesLoaded()` so the slower
       recently-added DB query does not block the live favorites rail on
       startup.
    5. `recommendationCards` / `trendingCards` — the two TMDB rails. Both
       need the TMDB opt-in AND the Electron DB worker that answers
       `DB_MATCH_TITLES` (each is hidden in the PWA), and both load after
       `globalFavoritesLoaded()` so the batched title match never competes
       for the worker at startup. `recommendationCards` is seeded from
       recently watched movies/series and only shows titles present in an
       imported library, hiding itself below five matched cards; its rail
       label names the seed ("Because you watched X") when exactly one
       seed contributed. `trendingCards` shows TMDB's weekly trending and
       falls back to a prefilled global search for unmatched titles.
       Contracts: `docs/architecture/tmdb-metadata-enrichment.md`
       ("Dashboard Integration").
    6. `sourceCards` — maps `recentPlaylists()` to rail cards. `recentPlaylists()`
       ranks M3U, Xtream, and Stalker sources by their latest recent activity
       from `globalRecentItems()`, then falls back to playlist
       `updateDate` / `importDate` for sources that have never been used.
3. `DashboardDataService` is passive on construction. The dashboard feature
   owns the initial reloads for recent items, favorites, and Xtream recently
   added rows on page entry.
4. No dashboard-local `Layout` state, no localStorage keys, no migrations.
   Per-rail visibility is the one persisted preference, and it lives in the
   global settings store (`Settings.dashboardRails`), not in a
   dashboard-owned layout blob.
5. Navigation state + deep-link targets come from the existing
   `getRecentItemLink()` / `getGlobalFavoriteLink()` / `getPlaylistLink()`
   helpers on `DashboardDataService` and reuse the workspace navigation
   helpers in `@iptvnator/portal/shared/util`.
6. Xtream VOD and series detail pages opportunistically backfill
   `content.backdrop_url` when metadata exposes a backdrop, but that write
   must not refresh recently viewed ordering by itself.
7. The dashboard feature triggers a fresh reload of DB-backed recent/favorite
   rows on dashboard entry so newly backfilled backdrop data is visible as soon
   as the user returns from a detail page.
8. Playback-position reloads are keyed by the VOD/series recent set and should
   call `reloadPlaybackPositions()` through `untracked()` so live-only recent
   changes do not trigger unnecessary IPC round-trips.
9. Electron M3U dashboard favorites should use
   `PlaylistsService.getM3uFavoriteChannels()` first. That method checks the
   SQLite playlist migration flag and then calls
   `dbGetAppPlaylistFavoriteChannels(playlistId)`, letting the DB worker return
   only matched favorite channels instead of sending the full playlist payload
   back to the renderer. If the bridge method is missing or migration is
   incomplete, the dashboard falls back to the full playlist read.
10. Electron playlist summary loads should use
    `dbGetAppPlaylistMetas()` through `PlaylistsService.getAllPlaylists()`.
    This keeps dashboard/source/sidebar startup on a metadata-only SQLite path
    and avoids parsing full M3U `payload` blobs for surfaces that only need
    playlist title, type, counts, favorites, recent activity, and source
    connection fields. Workflows that need channel payloads still call
    `getPlaylistById()`.

## Empty State

The welcome state is rendered via the existing
`EmptyStateComponent` (`type="welcome-dashboard"`) from
`libs/playlist/shared/ui`:

1. Illustration + headline + description from the existing M3U welcome
   strings (`HOME.PLAYLISTS.WELCOME_*`).
2. Primary button emits `addPlaylistClicked`. The dashboard page wires this
   to `WORKSPACE_SHELL_ACTIONS.openAddPlaylistDialog()`.
3. Feature chips (M3U / Xtream / Stalker) are provided by the component.

## UX Rules

1. Rails represent content the user is likely to resume, not provider
   internals. Never surface raw API objects.
2. Each rail must auto-hide when its data source is empty.
3. Image assets must degrade to a typed icon fallback — never show broken
   images or empty tiles.
4. The page must never show "No widgets" style text. If there is no content
   and no playlists, render the welcome state; otherwise render whatever
   rails have data.
5. Navigation from a rail card must deep-link into the appropriate workspace
   route without switching the active playlist in the header switcher.
6. Xtream and Stalker series hero/Continue Watching clicks with a saved episode
   position must resume that exact episode while preserving the
   collection-owned detail and Back behavior. Do not apply autoplay to
   ordinary collection-grid clicks.
7. `Recently Used Sources` reflects recent source usage across all provider
   types, not just recent imports.
8. The live rail title key must match the rendered source: favorites use
   `WORKSPACE.DASHBOARD.LIVE_FAVORITES`; the recently-watched-live rail uses
   `WORKSPACE.DASHBOARD.RECENTLY_WATCHED_LIVE_TV`
   (`liveRailTitleKeyForSource` in `rails/dashboard-rail.utils.ts`).

## Adding Or Changing Rails

Current workflow:

1. Add a new `computed()` signal for the card list in
   `WorkspaceDashboardRailsComponent`, mapping your source data to
   `DashboardRailCard`.
2. Drop a `<lib-dashboard-rail>` in the template, gated by
   `@if (cards.length > 0)`.
3. If the data source is new, extend `DashboardDataService` rather than
   reaching into DB services directly from the component.
4. Provide a `seeAllLink` only if there is a dedicated "manage all" route
   for that content type.

## Deferred Work

Intentionally out of scope:

1. Customizable layout (drag/drop, resize, freeform reordering). The rail
   order stays curated and opinionated. (Per-rail show/hide toggles have
   since shipped via `Settings.dashboardRails` — see Summary.)
2. Freeform widget grid with collision management.
3. External data rails such as RSS, sports, or news adapters.
4. Per-user A/B variants of rail ordering.

## Source subscription expiry

Source cards show a passive subscription-expiry chip: amber within seven days,
error-toned once expired. Account details stay behind the Account info menu.
`DashboardSourceExpiryService` in `libs/workspace/dashboard/data-access` reads
Xtream expiry from cached `PortalStatusService.checkPortalStatusDetails()`
(`exp_date`). Stalker uses the persisted `stalkerAccountInfo` snapshot from the
playlist payload, not the metadata row; each source therefore needs one memoized
full-playlist read. The chip is not a separate account-refresh request.