Dashboard overview navigation and search system

A cloud-based computer system, comprising:

• a memory partition;
• a network interface communicatively coupled to one or more processing units and the memory partition, wherein the memory partition comprises computer instructions that when executed by the one or more processing units cause the cloud-based computer system to:
• provide, via the network interface, a hosted client instance for communicatively coupling with a remote client device, the hosted client instance including a plurality of dashboard definitions and a plurality of user-accounts;
• receive a request, originating from the remote client device, to display a dashboard overview display, the request associated with a current user-account of the plurality of user-accounts, the dashboard overview display comprising a collection of categorized dashboards associated the current user-account;
• obtain, in response to the request:
• a first set of dashboards owned by the current user-account, a second set of dashboards shared with the current user-account, and a third set of dashboards recently displayed by the current user-account;
• and
• display a plurality of card tile info representations, each card tile info representation corresponding to one of the plurality of dashboard definitions and at least one of the first, second, and third sets of dashboards,
• wherein each card tile info representation comprises an automatically generated graphical summary of information defined in the one of the plurality of dashboard definitions and information regarding control attributes of the one of the plurality of dashboard definitions.