Looking through this forum I see a lot of reference to the IDES dashboard and frustration. This is to clear up questions and misunderstandings with the MEB Dashboard for Army Soldiers who may misunderstand what information it actually provides. Please feel free to comment or critique. I do hope this helps. This picture is from my dashboard for reference. The MEB Dashboard updates Monday night at 2400 giving new information. Regardless of when you go to a new step it will not reflect until the following Tuesday but does update the date correctly.
Going from top left to bottom right and skipping the obvious ones.
Days Remaining: Days left in process according to Army Average time in IDES process. Updates monthly due to average change.
Current Step: Where you actually are in the process
Days behind Schedule: How far behind/ahead of schedule you are from the GOAL TIMELINE
Start Date: when you were entered into the IDES process
GOAL FINISH: When you would be complete with IDES process IF you followed the Goal timeline of 295 days
Estimated Finish Date/s: This date changes in accordance with where you currently are in the IDES process PLUS the remaining days under the ARMY AVERAGE COLUMN. This is why this date changes so much.
Reported Date: when the information was pulled up i.e. today’s date
Expected Step: This is where you would/should be if you followed the GOAL column (basically useless after the process gets going and serves to show you where you could be.)
Current Step: where you currently are in the IDES process.
Completed step within goal: Did this step get completed within Goal column time
GOAL Column: Army number of days goal for each step
Actual: actual days in step your process took or has taken
Delta from Goal: Number of days deviation from Army’s goal days
Army Average: Updated monthly, average days for all army soldiers in IDES to complete this portion in IDES
Delta from Army Average: Number of days deviation from Army’s Average days
Overall IDES Process: Total days by column, Army average days day totals update and affect the estimated finish date/s
Going from top left to bottom right and skipping the obvious ones.
Days Remaining: Days left in process according to Army Average time in IDES process. Updates monthly due to average change.
Current Step: Where you actually are in the process
Days behind Schedule: How far behind/ahead of schedule you are from the GOAL TIMELINE
Start Date: when you were entered into the IDES process
GOAL FINISH: When you would be complete with IDES process IF you followed the Goal timeline of 295 days
Estimated Finish Date/s: This date changes in accordance with where you currently are in the IDES process PLUS the remaining days under the ARMY AVERAGE COLUMN. This is why this date changes so much.
Reported Date: when the information was pulled up i.e. today’s date
Expected Step: This is where you would/should be if you followed the GOAL column (basically useless after the process gets going and serves to show you where you could be.)
Current Step: where you currently are in the IDES process.
Completed step within goal: Did this step get completed within Goal column time
GOAL Column: Army number of days goal for each step
Actual: actual days in step your process took or has taken
Delta from Goal: Number of days deviation from Army’s goal days
Army Average: Updated monthly, average days for all army soldiers in IDES to complete this portion in IDES
Delta from Army Average: Number of days deviation from Army’s Average days
Overall IDES Process: Total days by column, Army average days day totals update and affect the estimated finish date/s