Populating an Analytics dashboard with site-level Adobe Analytics data
Once you set up an Adobe Analytics site-level report, you must configure a Report widget on the dashboard that displays its metrics. One Report widget houses one site report and its metrics; therefore, to display metrics from both a device report and a site report, for example, you must make two Report widgets. For details on how to set up the prerequisite Adobe Analytics reports, see the topics below:
- Setting up an Adobe Analytics device report
- Setting up an Adobe Analytics referral report
- Setting up an Adobe Analytics site calculated report
- Setting up an Adobe Analytics site report
The procedure in this topic assumes that you are creating a dashboard from scratch, to which you then build Report widgets to display Adobe Analytics; however, you may also access an existing one-off or shared dashboard and add Report widgets to it.
To populate an Analytics dashboard with site-level Adobe Analytics data:
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Click > Admin > Dashboards.
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Under Name, give the dashboard a name (for example,
Adobe Analytics Dashboard
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Under Main Tab Name, override the default main tab name (
Main
) to something that indicates what this dashboard displays (for example,Analytics
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Under Main Tab Columns, under Widgets, click , then select Report Widget.
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In the Heading field, give the widget a name (for example,
Site Report Metrics
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In the Reporter field, select Area Filled.
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In the Supplier field, select Numbers Over Time.
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In the Series field, select Adobe Analytics (Site).
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Under Report Suite, select the report suite in which you configured an Adobe Analytics site-level report. For details, see Importing an Adobe Analytics report suite.
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Under Report, select the specific report whose metrics you want to display in the widget.
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Under Metric, select the specific metric you want to display in the widget. Your settings should look similar to the following image.
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To add additional metrics, click and then repeat steps 9–11; however, to save time, refer to the tip below.
tipTo save time, in the Series object you just configured, click > Copy to produce a copy, then update the selection in the copy's Metric field.
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Under Period, select the time period to be displayed in the widget by default (for example, Set Month).
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Repeat steps 1–13 to add additional Report widgets that display other reports and their metrics. See the image below for an example of a configured Report widget.
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Click Save.