Most manufacturing teams rely on spreadsheets and one-off exports when they need a shared view of performance or operations. That approach breaks down when definitions drift, files multiply, and nobody knows which copy is current.
Manufacturing Reports brings curated, versioned dashboards into Threaded so your team opens the same report in the same place—scoped to your organization and updated when Threaded publishes new data or layout revisions.
#Key Concepts
Manufacturing Report A named report your organization can open from the Reports area. Each report has a title, optional description, identifying slug, and a generation timestamp so you can see when the content was produced.
Shell The interactive layout (“dashboard”) for a report. Reports can have one or more shell revisions over time; you pick which revision to view.
Data revision When a report uses separate data from the shell, Threaded keeps dated data revisions alongside shell revisions. Some reports embed data in the shell instead—those show a note that there is no separate data source.
#Who can use it
Members can browse and open reports. Creating new reports, publishing revisions, or wiring automation is coordinated outside the day-to-day browsing flow—if the list is empty, use the contact path shown on the Reports page to reach Threaded.
#How It Works
#Opening the Reports list
Click Reports in the top navigation to open the report library—a list of available reports sorted by when they were last generated.
You will see each report’s title, description when present, slug, and Generated time. Click any row to open that report.
#Reading a report
The report viewer fills the workspace so you can focus on the dashboard. At the top you will see the report title and description.
Expand Report details when you need to:
- Choose a different Shell revision from the dropdown.
- Choose a Data revision when data is maintained separately from the shell.
- Use Open dashboard in new tab if you prefer a full browser window (for example, on a shop-floor display).
- Review attribution: who created the report and when, plus creation metadata for the shell and data revisions you have selected.
- Delete report appears only when your membership allows editing the organization (for example Owner or Edit All—not view-only). It removes this report from the organization.
#Working with revisions
Changing the Shell or Data selection updates the viewer and keeps your place in the URL, so you can bookmark or share a specific shell and data combination when your report supports both.
If data is embedded only in the HTML shell, you will not see a separate Data dropdown—Threaded tells you that data lives inside the shell.
#Report artifacts (CLI)
Report shell and data files (HTML dashboard layouts, SQLite databases, JSON data files, and supporting assets) are stored as report library artifacts scoped to each report—not in the general Admin > Media library.
Creating a new report, uploading initial shell/data files, and publishing revisions is handled through the Threaded CLI today (threaded task org:report:* tasks). Editors can browse and open reports in the app; artifact upload and revision wiring for new reports is coordinated with Threaded or via CLI automation. For day-to-day use, open a report from the library— you do not need to manage artifacts unless you are setting up or refreshing report content.
#Why This Matters
Manufacturing Reports reduces friction between “someone exported a chart” and “everyone trusts the numbers.” Versioned shells and data give you a clear audit trail of what was shown and when, while keeping navigation inside Threaded aligned with how you already work—by organization, role, and shared artifacts rather than email attachments.