🎉 Biggest KidsChores Dashboard Update Yet! 🚀

The latest KidsChores Dashboard is here, bringing major enhancements that make managing chores more powerful, customizable, and engaging than ever!

This release leverages many of the powerful new features in the newly released KidsChores Integration 0.3.0. The latest integration update is packed with improvements and new capabilities, so be sure to check it out! A huge shout-out to @ad-ha for all the hard work he's been putting into the integration! 🙌

📖 We've worked to significantly enhance the integration's README and Wiki, now providing more in-depth details on how it works, along with expanded FAQs, Best Practices, Tips & Tricks, and Troubleshooting Guides to help you maximize everything KidsChores has to offer.

🚀 What's New?

✅ Multi-Language Support – Now available in 5 languages! 🌍
✅ Chore & Reward Labels – Group or exclude tasks effortlessly.
✅ Bonus System Integration – Easily track & apply bonuses.
✅ New Badge Cards – Displays earned and upcoming badges with progress tracking.
✅ Reworked Showcase – All key stats in one place!
✅ Parent Dashboard Enhancements – Cleaner, more intuitive.
✅ Column Width Controls – Adjust layouts for any screen.
✅ New Customization Options – More flexibility in chore displays.
✅ Better Special Character Handling – Improved name support across languages.

📖 Check out the full release details below!

🌍 Multi-Lingual Support

Now available in English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, and German, and it's quick and easy to add more. A huge thank you to:

• Danish: @dehoej 🇩🇰
• Dutch: @WilbertVerhoeff 🇳🇱
• Finnish: @mikkomakipaa 🇫🇮
• German: @kolossboss 🇩🇪
• French: @Calhendren 🇫🇷

A special shout-out to @kolossboss, who originally submitted a translated version of the dashboard. While reviewing it, I realized that for long-term support of multiple languages, the dashboard needed a complete rework. @kolossboss assisted in testing the first version, and thanks to this effort, it's now possible to quickly add new languages for anyone interested in contributing a translation! ✨

📌 Chore & Reward Labels

• Chores and rewards can now be grouped or excluded by label. This is using a new feature in the KidsChores Integration 0.3.0

🎯 Support for New Bonus Features

• Integrated with the latest Bonus system, a new feature in the KidsChores Integration 0.3.0
• Shows total bonuses earned and allows parents to apply bonuses easily.

Kid's Showcase:

Parent Dashboard

🏆 New Badge Cards

• Shows earned and upcoming badges.
• Displays progress toward the next badge.
• Highlights points required for the next level.

🎭 Reworked Showcase Card

• Now displays all key stats:
  • 🏅 Badges
  • 🎁 Rewards
  • ⭐ Bonuses
  • ❌ Penalties
  • 🏆 Achievements
  • 🏁 Challenges

🏅 Updated Achievement & Challenge Cards

• Includes progress tracking, assigned tasks, and rewards.
• Supports Daily Minimum Achievements.

📋 Streamlined Parent Dashboard

• Redundant elements removed to improve clarity.
• Focused on approvals and overdue resets.

🖥️ Easily Adjust Column Width for Chores, Rewards, and Approvals

The column layout for chores, rewards, and approvals can now be adjusted in the preferences, allowing for a customizable display. Whether you're using a phone, tablet, or larger screen, you can configure it to show a single column for compact views or multiple columns for a broader layout. Thank you @knotquiteawake for the suggestions.

📌 Note: Column width settings may require adjustments to UI layout settings to ensure proper display on wider screens.

⚙️ New Configuration Options (pref_)

Easily customize how chores, rewards, and approvals are displayed by changing preference settings in the dashboard yaml.

Chore Card

• pref_column_count → Adjusts the number of columns.
• pref_use_today_grouping → Groups chores by due morning & due today.
• pref_use_overdue_grouping → Groups overdue chores separately.
• pref_exclude_approved → Excludes approved chores from showing.
• pref_use_label_grouping → Groups chores by category.
• pref_exclude_label_list → Allows excluding specific chore categories.

Reward Card

• pref_column_count → Adjusts the number of columns.
• pref_use_label_grouping → Groups rewards by category.
• pref_exclude_label_list → Allows excluding specific reward categories.

Approval Card

• pref_column_count → Adjusts the number of columns.

Showcase Card

• pref_show_penalties → Toggles penalty visibility.

🔤 Improved Special Character Handling

Found a built-in Home Assistant function that could be used for better name normalization across languages rather than the prior regex replacements approach I was trying to use.

This update makes the Kids Chore Dashboard more customizable and user-friendly, while keeping it powerful and engaging! 🚀😊

What's Changed

• Create kc_dashboard_de.yaml by @kolossboss in #20
• Changed all titles and headings to german in kc_dashboard_de.yaml by @kolossboss in #21
• Create danish translation by @dehoej in #23
• £ sign replacement by @OptimusGREEN in #24
• Dashboard fi by @mikkomakipaa in #26
• Nl translation by @WilbertVerhoeff in #30
• FI translation updates by @mikkomakipaa in #31
• Update kc_dashboard_fi.yaml by @mikkomakipaa in #32

New Contributors

• @kolossboss made their first contribution in #20
• @dehoej made their first contribution in #23
• @OptimusGREEN made their first contribution in #24
• @mikkomakipaa made their first contribution in #26
• @WilbertVerhoeff made their first contribution in #30