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Insights | Creating a Dashboard |II_003

Infigo Insights and Metabase gives you the ability to generate information packed dashboards, based on the questions you've specified (such as we've seen in previous tutorials). Multiple questions are placed onto and positioned within one dashboard. These dashboards can be viewed from within Metabase, or from within your Infigo admin area (if covered by your Insights plan).

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Infigo Insights in Metabase

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gives you the ability
to generate information packed dashboards

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based on the questions
that you've specified, such

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as the ones we've seen
in our previous tutorials.

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Multiple questions are placed onto

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and positioned within one dashboard.

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These dashboards can be viewed
from within Metabase

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or from within your Infigo admin area.

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If covered by your Insights, plan,

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we're going to create a dashboard
from scratch here.

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If I just go to New Up on the top right
and click on dashboard.

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We can import a dashboard name
description,

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and the Collection
in which we want to save the dashboard.

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Then hit create.

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If you have the correct Insights level
and wish for these dashboards

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to be available from within Infigo admin,
then place them within

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the name of your particular platform,
which in my case is training DOT

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and then dashboards.

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you'll be able to add

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the results
of your previously specified questions.

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These could be, for example, tables
of data or preconfigured charts.

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Search through your collections
and locate your questions of interest.

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If I click on the plus icon on the top
right, that allows me to add a question.

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And it's just a case of searching

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through all of our relevant collections
or hitting the search icon here

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and then just finding the questions
we wish to add to the dashboard.

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So you'll see

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all of your previously asked
questions will be listed here, will

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give you an icon to show the type of data
that you'll see as a result.

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So we've got a graph, for example,
we've got a table,

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we've got a single value and a pie chart.

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So it gives us an indication
of what they're going to be.

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And I can
just click on the pieces of information

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I want to add to the dashboard,

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and then you'll see that

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there's these little squares
consisting of the background

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of the dashboard
that allows us to actually

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position and resize

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and create things on this dashboard
that we

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and have them orientated the exact way
that we want them.

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So for example, just to

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go, I just resize and reposition

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a couple of these elements.

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We can see how we start
to get a very useful set of data

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all on one screen.

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We also have the ability to add text box

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areas onto the dashboard
using this icon on top of the screen here.

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And this allows you to specify
specific text

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where you can include things like markdown
if specifically required.

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Now, before we can actually see

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this dashboard properly in action,
we do need to save it.

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So the same process as with a question,
just go to save up on the top.

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Right?

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If you haven't already specified
where that needs to be saved,

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you'll need to do so.

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Otherwise it will just save it to the pre
specified area.

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And then it takes us to this screen here,

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which is a slightly larger
version of that dashboard.

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Now, just want to draw your attention
to a couple of the settings

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on the top right of the screen.

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So one of them is the ability to edit
the dashboard.

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That takes us back to the previous view.

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Next along, you have subscriptions

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that allows you
to actually send this dashboard

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to whatever email address
you like on a regular basis.

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So for example, if I say I want to email
it I'll have my own email address

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in there as an example.

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We can specify
how often we want this to be sent,

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specify
when it's going to be sent an alternative.

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We we've got the ability to just send it
now if we wish to do so, and that will

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provide us
with an email version of that data.

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Also on here,

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we have the ability to auto refresh,
so by default the auto refresh is off.

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But let's say we just want to leave
this dashboard in the background

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and keep an eye on it.

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You can specify how often it refreshes

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and then the icon at the end here,
we do have the ability to duplicate this.

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If you want to make modifications to
a similar one, you can archive or move it

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and you do have the ability to enter
full screen, which is nice and simple.

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But if you have a specific monitor
set up to keep

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hold of these metrics, the full screen
might be a useful thing for you to keep on

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hand.

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Now, if you wish to modify
any of the questions on your dashboard,

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you can do so from within the dashboard
itself and go direct to that question.

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Simply click on the title of the question
box to be taken directly

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to that question.

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And from here you can modify the question

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in the same manner
as we've seen in previous tutorials.

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So here
we're seeing the resulting dataset.

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But if we go back to show editor,

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we can modify how that question
is being asked.

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Alternatively, we've got the filter
and the summarize options

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at the top of the screen here.

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Once you've made

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a modification, click on the save icon
that will appear and you'll get the option

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to either replace the existing question
or to create a new question.

 

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