We'd suggest that before you start adding reports to your dashboard or site dashboards, that you spend some time playing around with the various options available.
There are many options available, so you can use the Report Preview panel to see how different options affect reports, before you go ahead and save them.
We've listed some tips below to bear in mind when you're creating reports to help you analyze and report on data in exactly the way you want.
And remember that if your report isn't behaving as expected then you can check SkyVault Analytics FAQs.
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Check the existing SkyVault reports to see if they meet your needs or can be used as a starting point.
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Choose your report type carefully. Different types will be better for displaying different types of data, for example, if you are directly comparing two or more related values then a pie chart or bar chart is great, but if you're comparing a large number of data points you might want to try a scatter chart.
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Reports don't work well with too much data. Don't be afraid of using filters to narrow down report contents.
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Remember that some of the reports contain a lot of information and / or have long labels. If this is the case for any of your reports then add them to a wide dashboard column to make sure that they display clearly.
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Always add one or more measure fields to your report.
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When filtering, always choose include/exclude over contains/doesn't contain if possible.
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Always add and filter by common values (low cardinality) rather than uncommon values first to increase the speed of the report.
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When creating a Site Report, you need to include a Site ID field, then click
next to the Site ID field. Click Filter and
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If you're creating a Process and Task report then always add a Task ID field so you see the specifics for the individual tasks. If you don't add this field then all results (for example, the total duration of each task) are aggregated to create a total for all tasks.