Overview In that last topic, we briefly talked about the "Dummy Report." Maybe not the most professional name but here's the point. Sometimes (often), you'll need to create a very simple report view for a stakeholder (either smart or a dummy) which only pulls very specific information which will help them understand what's [...]
It's Monday morning and we're back in the office. John, sunburn from a long weekend of golfing, has come in and loves the report we created. However, he's getting savvy and now has a few new requirements. John loves the simple email marketing report which we created. However, he thinks it would be better [...]
Dashboards are customizable "views" which we can create and save. These are for providing a single glance at all the high-level metrics important to our business. Dashboards are a collection of widgets that give you an overview of the reports and metrics you care about most. Dashboards let you monitor many metrics at [...]
Let's create our first dashboard. Scenario John (our hypothetical manager) is back in the office again today because his golf date got rained out. He loves the new custom report we created and now wants a custom dashboard he can look at which summarizes all the key website metrics. John would like to see [...]