The Dashboard View provides a project management overview for users to keep track of due dates, assigned users, statuses, judgments, and whether or not an item is checked out.
To see your Dashboard, navigate to your report then click Options > Dashboard View.
A user must have Contributor or Administrator access to at least one item in a report before they can access the Dashboard View for that report. Clicking on the title or number of an item from the Dashboard will take the user directly to Edit Mode, without seeing the read-only view first, as long as they have Contributor or Administrator access to the item that they clicked.