Use this image as a reference guide, explanations for each of the highlighted features are described and linked below this image.
Event Dashboard
1 - Select Timeframe
The left-hand side of the Reports tab displays a quick dashboard of activity that can be defined by date, up to 6 months worth of data. By selecting the past 7 days, 30 days or a customized date range, all of the subsequent tables and charts change to reflect the data chosen.
2 - Totals
The Totals bar shows a summary count of key activities. These activities are then represented graphically below the Totals bar. The data includes:
- Ideas: Total number of ideas submitted for the period
- Comments: Total number of comments submitted for the period
- Votes: Total number of 5-star votes submitted for the period
- Visitors: Total unique visitors for the period
- Hits: Total page clicks for the period. This shows how active people are, so if you have 10 Visitors and only 10 page clicks, you know the landing page is not gaining the attention desired. If you have 10 people and 200 page clicks, assume people are reading other ideas & comments, submitting their own ideas & comments and are very active.
- Reviews: Total number of quick or full reviews submitted for the period.
- Conclusions: Total number of conclusions submitted for the period.
3 - Activity
A graph combining all common submission activity: votes, comments, ideas, reviews, conclusions. This graph can be exported either as an image, or the data can be exported into excel for further work with this data set.
4 - Participation
Graphs the hits and unique visitors over the time period. Often, you may notice spikes in participation correspond with activities such as the launch, reminder and last call email and any other marketing / communication actions.
5 - Contributors
Shows the number of unique voters, commentors and idea authors over a period of time.
6 - Connectors
Graphs the number of individuals who are using the Send A Link feature and the Subscription feature.
7 - Evaluations
Shows the number of reviews and conclusions completed for the period.
8 - Reset Stats
As the challenge is being developed by the administrator and core team, there are often several test ideas, hits, votes, comments, etc. created over the course of this work. Using Reset Stats just prior to lauch will eliminate the counts from this past work and start the statistics again.
9 - Event Dashboard
Clicking this button brings you back to this main Reports Tab view when you've navigated away.
10 - Event Goals
Clicking this button brings you to the Event Goals Configuration (click link to learn about Event Goals)
11 - Innovation Analytics
Clicking this button brings you to the Innovation Analytics (click link to learn about Innovation Analytics)
12 - Event Summary Report
This link allows you to configure a PDF report containing charts relevant to your challenge. Click the link to learn more about the Event Summary Report.
13 - Event Export
This link give you the ability to export all of the ideas and associated information from the current or any Challenge. For more details, see Event Export.
14 - FlexForm Export
Use this link to export FlexForm data from your instance in the FlexForm Export format.
15 - Custom Reports
See Custom Reports in Global Dashboard for the process steps. The only difference between Custom Reports within the Global Dashboard and Custom Reports within the instance is Global Dashboard has the option to include any / all challenges from other instances.
16 - Event Totals
Event Totals gives you a simple table format of the data found in the Event Dashboard graphs. The totals include today and cumulative (up to 6 months).
17 - Embargo
These are the links Reviewers can use to actively work a list of ideas and comments under embargo. Learn more about Embargo.
18 - Create Filters
Use the Create Filters link to create individual or public filters based on the data currently within the instance.