> For AI agents: the complete Sanity documentation index is available at [https://www.sanity.io/docs/llms.txt](https://www.sanity.io/docs/llms.txt).

# Read Dashboard state

Read the current organization, signed-in user, color scheme, and other Dashboard state from your app.

The Dashboard shares its state with your app: the current organization, the signed-in user, the color scheme, and more. Read it with hooks from `@sanity/sdk-react/dashboard`. Most of these hooks suspend until the Dashboard sends a first value, so render them inside `Suspense`.

## Read the organization

**src/OrganizationId.tsx**

```tsx
import {useOrganizationId} from '@sanity/sdk-react/dashboard'

export function OrganizationId() {
  const organizationId = useOrganizationId()
  return <p>Organization: {organizationId}</p>
}
```

`useOrganizationId` returns `undefined` outside the Dashboard. For the organization's name and slug, read the `organizations.current` topic with `useTopic`.

## Read the signed-in user

**src/Greeting.tsx**

```tsx
import {useCurrentUser} from '@sanity/sdk-react/dashboard'

export function Greeting() {
  const user = useCurrentUser()
  return <p>Hello, {user?.name ?? 'there'}</p>
}
```

Import `useCurrentUser` from `@sanity/sdk-react/dashboard`. The hook with the same name in `@sanity/sdk-react` doesn't read from the Dashboard. It returns `null` while nobody is signed in.

## Match the color scheme

`preferences.color-scheme` is `light` or `dark` and changes when the user switches the Dashboard's theme. To apply it to your styles, see Match the Dashboard's color scheme.

## Read other Dashboard state

`useTopic` reads any Dashboard state topic and re-renders when it changes. These topics are available:

- `organizations.current`: The organization's `id`, `name`, and `slug`, or `null`.
- `users.current`: The signed-in user, or `null`.
- `preferences.color-scheme`: `light` or `dark`.
- `preferences.dock-locked`: Whether the dock is pinned open.
- `navigation.location`: The Dashboard's current location.
- `panels.mode`: The open panel. See Open and close panels.
- `applications.context`: What the foreground application is looking at, as `{resource, document, appId}`, or `null`. See Share your app's context.
- `applications.foreground`: The ID of the application currently in the foreground.

## Next steps

[Navigate the Dashboard](https://www.sanity.io/docs/dashboard-beta/navigate-the-dashboard)
Sync your router and link to other apps and Studios.

[Open and close panels](https://www.sanity.io/docs/dashboard-beta/open-and-close-panels)
Control your app's panels from code.