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cproudlock 0f2da9beaf Show a guest what they can see, not a blank page
A guest got a heading and nothing else.

THE STRUCTURAL FAULT WAS MINE

Moving the Estate panel into DashboardCards' rail slot put it behind that
component's root v-if, which was `liveCards.length > 0`. A guest is permitted
zero cards, so the whole component disappeared and took the slot with it. Before
that move the tiles were top-level and always rendered. The wrapper no longer
vanishes with the cards.

TWO LIES THE EMPTY STATE WAS TELLING

"Nothing needs attention" is now shown only to somebody who can see the checks.
A reader permitted none of them is not looking at a healthy fleet, they are
looking at nothing, and saying otherwise is the same fault as reporting Low
Supplies 0 while the monitoring is down. The count of PERMITTED cards is now
tracked separately from the count that currently hold rows.

The Estate panel no longer renders zeros for a caller who cannot read totals.
/api/dashboard/summary needs assets.view, and the failure was swallowed into an
empty object that drew a tidy column of zeros - an estate of nothing, stated
with confidence.

WHAT A GUEST GETS INSTEAD

Where they can go: the same permission-filtered navigation the sidebar uses,
which the server already filters to the guest role for a signed-out visitor. So
it cannot offer a link that dead-ends at the router guard, and this page names no
plugin it had to know about. Verified against the running instance - a guest is
offered Guides and Tech Tools, matching guides.view and tools.view.

ALSO: the measuring tools row

totalassets counts five types - machines, PCs, network, printers AND measuring
tools - but only four had rows, so the total stopped matching the addends above
it wherever gages exist: 610 of visible rows under a stated 729. That is exactly
the fault this panel was built to remove, and it looked right here only because
this database has no measuring tools. Every counted type now has a row.

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