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November 19, 2019
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Set filters on Scheduled Dashboards

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  • November 19, 2019
  • 28 replies
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Hello,

I created a post here: https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360037531293-Scheduled-Dashboard-showes-different-values?input_string=Set%20filters%20on%20Scheduled%20Dashboards that talked about having filters applied to a scheduled dashboard. I would like to see if there is going to be a possibility of using the same queries and having them filtered on the scheduled delivery. When I open the dashboard, it shows me the data filtered how I expect it without me having to set a filter. On the emailed PDF version, it does not keep the filter. If this is too similar to setting default filters on dashboards I will go ahead and remove my post.

Thanks,

    28 replies

    July 28, 2020

    Yes, this is a feature we need. On insights, with one dashboard, we are able to schedule a delivery for the current set of filters which include agent groups, different time frames, and different organizations. Our use case is that each organization needs the same dashboard, but they should only be getting their information. What makes it easy for our managers for scheduled pre-filtered dashboards is that the image/pdf is already generated and in their email to download and attach to a report. It also serves as a reminder for them to attach the dashboard to their report. 

    August 26, 2020

    We also need this feature - as we have some fields that we filter that are specific to certain teams that we'd like to set those filters and schedule it to send to that team without them having to make changes to the dashboard. It is currently functioning in insights that I'd like to see in Explore.

    Also, another use case is some of our clients actually request reports every month/week - so we have these scheduled to send and forward along to them! So we need that functionality. 

    David114
    December 10, 2020

    This one should be obvious!

    March 23, 2021

    I concur with all of the above. I just had a discussion in a support ticket with Zendesk about this.

    Use cases same as above: customers get SLA reports every month / quarter. A report (dashboard) has 4 tabs. Filters across tabs work fine in the UI (when you get all the finicky stuff in place: copy filters one-by-one, bookmark on first tab), but the scheduled PDF only applies the filter to the first. 
    I was advised to use bookmarks on every tab, but that means 4 times #customers of arranging hidden bookmarks :(

    This was already a workaround for my first idea. In our portal every customer has their own Help center (Guide) section in which we publish their monthly / quarterly reports. Those used to be Insights PDF's (easy, multitab, filters were applied to schedule and not the dashboard). With Explore I wanted to abandon old fashion PDF and share an Explore link in Guide; That does mean one dashboard for each customer, but the advantage is that customers at any time can see their SLA status.

    However, there's another bug they're still working on: the link does not work in Guide within a host mapped help center article :(

    I guess for now it's gonna be just a lot of manual labor.

    CJ95
    June 3, 2021

    This would be really fantastic. Currently, if you say, want to send a Dashboard of Unsolved tickets and exclude pending, but also want to let people filter it in and out, you have to build 2 separate dashboards and 2 separate queries. With the lack of any kind of categorization or tagging, this increases the query bloat problem as well. 

    July 8, 2021

    Would really love an update on this!

    August 4, 2021

    Scheduling daily reports used to be so easy in Insights. With Explore, I now have to generate each daily report, every single day. Takes up a lot of my time setting up and emailing. Would love to see this feature added to Explore. 

    August 4, 2021

    I agree with Deb.  With all the positives with Explore, the lack of the ability to schedule dashboards with specific filters is a major step back from Insights. Can we have an update please Zendesk on if you plan to address this much needed missing feature? 

    August 30, 2021

    I hope this issue is addressed ASAP. It really does stunt Explore in a major way. For me, this makes the "Schedule" feature entirely non-functional. 

    Anastasia11
    October 5, 2021

    +1 

     

    This should be a must in Explore. 

    We need to have a possibility to filter data. At least to have data filters + time filters for exact period of time /time range. We need to share our KPIs  with stakeholders daily. And currently when we schedule dashboard sharing -> we have all data exported for this instance (for lifetime) - this should be changed.