Creating a Dashboard

Need to create a Dashboard in Customer Insights? We suggest that you start here.

There are at least two ways to create Dashboards. Both are detailed here.

The elements that you add to a Dashboard - the charts, the tables, the messages, etc. - are referred to as tiles. To add a tile to a Dashboard, you first have to put the Dashboard into edit mode.

What is the difference between a Query Tile and a Look Tile? When is it appropriate to use one instead of the other?

Once a Look has been created, it's easy to add it to a Dashboard.

Add tips, comments, or descriptions to a visualization using the Add Note button.

When a Dashboard is in edit mode you can make changes to a Look Tile or a Query Tile by hovering the mouse over the top right corner of the tile.

Text tiles can be used to explain the use of the Dashboard, provide contact information should a user have questions, or any number of other things. Text tiles are easy to add.

Using Markdown to format Customer Insights text tiles.

Customer Insights makes it easy to move and or to resize elements on your Dashboards with move and resize handles for each element.

Dashboard filters help specify the initial dataset for a selected Look, and can also be used by users to examine the dataset in different ways.

In Customer Insights, Dashboard filters are easy to create and assign to different tiles.

Customer Insights allows you to require a user to set a filter before they can run a Dashboard. Here's how to set that up.

It is possible in Customer Insights to limit users to the use of a single clause within a filter., which disables the user's ability to create Boolean operator filters.

With Customers Insights, you can link two or more Dashboard filters together, further narrowing down query results.

Each Dashboard has a collection of configuration settings that manage such things as how often the Dashboard auto refreshes, and whether the Dashboard should automatically run any time it is accessed.