# Walkthrough — RC-020: Couple Dashboard 2.0 (Wedding Planning Command Center)

Redesigned the Couple Dashboard page (`/app/couple/dashboard`) into a high-visibility command center dashboard.

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## 1. Redesigned Layout Structure
The interface is structured into four visual zones:
- **Header Command**: Displays the Bride & Groom names, custom plan badges, active wedding date, and milestone countdown (e.g. "13 Days to go").
- **Today's Focus**: Actionable task widgets displaying items due *today*, linked payment installments, or vendor meetings due.
- **Budget Command Center**: Financial overview summary (Total, Allocated, Actual Deal Value, Paid, Remaining Cash, and difference/over budget alert variance indicator) along with a categories cost breakdown listing.
- **Planner Modules Summaries**: Side-by-side modules detailing:
  - **Upcoming Payments**: dues amounts, dates, and unassigned/assigned vendor links.
  - **Timeline Checklist**: completed, remaining, due this week, and overdue task counters.
  - **Guest RSVP Tracking**: totals, sent invitations, and confirmed/declined/pending RSVP counters.
  - **Recent Activities Log**: consolidated history timeline of guests added, RSVPs, timeline task completions, and budget payment logs.

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## 2. Model & Controller Query Updates
Modified [CoupleDashboardController.php](file:///c:/xampp/htdocs/inveetaire/app/modules/Invitation/CoupleDashboardController.php) to support consolidated workspace queries:
- **Difference variance calculation**: computed as `Total Budget - sum(max(actual_cost, estimated_cost))` where positive variances render green and negative variances render red (No warnings shown unless over budget).
- **Consolidated Activity Feed**: merges updates from `guests`, `budget_payments`, `vendors`, and `timeline_tasks` into a unified log ordered chronologically.

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## 3. Sidebar Cleanups
- Removed `Vendor Manager` from the sidebar Planning submenu in [couple.php](file:///c:/xampp/htdocs/inveetaire/app/views/layouts/couple.php) to visually reposition the Vendor CRM under Budget/Payments planning helper links.

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## 4. Verification & Testing
- **PHP Syntax Validation**: Ran syntax checks across all modified controller and view files with zero compile errors.
- **Functional Verification**: Ran test runner script checking header information, budget differences calculations, and activities feed parsing with 100% success.
- **Browser Runtime Testing**: Verified dashboard widgets rendering, layout spacing, sidebar updates, and confirmed no query errors.

### Command Center Dashboard Screenshots:
![Planning Command Center Dashboard](/C:/Users/FRIDAY/.gemini/antigravity-ide/brain/57840c77-f2bc-454f-9f01-9b09c72f508a/couple_dashboard_success_1784137484422.png)
*Redesigned Wedding Planning Command Center dashboard page showing budget summaries, category breakdowns, upcoming payments, guest RSVPs, and recent activities.*
