Any Segmentation, Funnel, Cohort, or Users query may be saved to a dashboard. Dashboards are often used to:
From the Manage dialog in the upper right corner of every dashboard, you can:
To access your Dashboard Settings:
From Dashboard Settings, you can perform the following tasks:
In the Dashboard Settings dialog, type your desired dashboard name in the Title field. You can also rename your dashboard by clicking on the title in the top left corner of your dashboard.
In the Dashboard Settings dialog, type a description in the Description field.
Your new description will be reflected in the top left corner of your dashboard.
In the Dashboard Settings dialog, select a Widget Layout Flow.
Check out the Dashboard Visualization article for more information on organizing your dashboard.
In the Dashboard Settings dialog, choose how to display your dashboard: screen or print mode.
In print mode, you may choose to display the following:
Check out the Dashboard Visualization article for more information on screen and print modes.
The Widget Color Matching feature within dashboard settings allows Analytics users to easily digest the widgets of their dashboards. Widgets that share the same series match visualization colors for easy comparison across the dashboard.
Note that undefined values will always be black.
To enable widget color matching, go to Manage > Dashboard Settings, and then select On.
Once selected, widgets in the same series will match:
Note: Colors persist even when opening a widget from a dashboard.
Although different widgets may query different events, series can still color match if they share the same breakout value.
Notice that the Funnel widget and the Segmentation widget below share the same breakout values. Although both widgets measure different events, their overlapping breakout values share the same color.
Identical series are defined as the following:
In the Dashboard Settings dialog, toggle full-screen mode settings.
You may toggle the following:
You may also copy to your clipboard a direct link to a full-screen version of your dashboard. For more information on full-screen mode, visit the Organize Dashboards article.
A dashboard may also be made publicly available. This means that anyone with the Public Access Link can view your dashboard.
To make a dashboard publicly available, from the Dialog Settings dialog, check the “Public Access” checkbox. Then, simply click to copy your shareable link to your clipboard. You may also generate a new public link by clicking Reset Access.
Analytics supports the ability to filter public dashboards programmatically via an API. You may create variants of your public dashboards by bulk adjusting each analysis’ Date Ranges, Time Zones, Query Intervals, and Property Filters.
The Dashboard Settings dialog provides the dashboard variant API endpoint:
However, please see our Dashboard Filter API documentation to filter public dashboards via the API. This feature requires advanced instrumentation from a technical resource.
Analytics uses an algorithm to balance data ‘freshness’ and efficient resource utilization when refreshing dashboards. When you apply a new filter to a dashboard or widget, please allow up to 15 minutes for changes to be reflected in the dashboard’s variants. Subsequently, each request to render a dashboard or widget will display the most recently cached result before initiating an update.
If you are on the Enterprise plan and are the Dashboard Owner, you can control whether or not team members can edit a dashboard. All team members with the correct user permissions can edit a dashboard by default. Dashboard privileges do not override user permissions.
To change the dashboard editing privileges for team members:
Note the following:
To duplicate a dashboard:
Note the following:
To delete a dashboard:
You may also delete your dashboard by hovering in the Views dropdown.
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