Historical Analytics dashboards are made up of individual tiles. Each tile displays chosen data in the chosen form.
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Licenses
To access Historical Analytics, you need to have a Viewer or Creator license. Depending on which license you have, you can perform different tasks in Historical Analytics.
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| View dashboards | | |
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| Download dashboard | | |
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| Delete dashboard | | |
Accessing and navigating Historical Analytics
Only users with Viewer or Creator licenses can access Historical Analytics. For more information about licenses, see the Who can access Historical Analytics? section in Overview of Historical Analytics.
To access Analytics, go to Analytics on the VCC admin portal menu. Existing default and custom (if available) dashboards are displayed either in tiles or in the table in applicable tabs. You can select the display mode you want to use when viewing dashboards, with an option to have different modes for default and custom dashboards.
Tile mode
Table mode
Your choice is stored in your browser's local storage; when you reopen Analytics in the same browser, Analytics respects the previous display view mode. Clearing your browser's local storage removes your display mode choice.
For information about accessing and navigating Historical Analytics, see Accessing and navigating Insights products.
For information about available default dashboards, see Default Historical Analytics dashboards.To view an existing dashboard, click the tile. The dashboard appears.
Displaying Historical Analytics dashboards
To maximize the space available to display dashboards, you can:
- Use full page view (1)
- Hide dashboard filters (2)
Viewing Historical Analytics dashboards
To view available dashboards, you need to have a Viewer or Creator license. When viewing an Analytics a historical dashboard, you can filter the data on the dashboard using the filters at the top of the dashboard. To explore the data in an individual tile, click the three dots in the top-right corner and then click Explore from here. For more information about viewing dashboards in Looker, see Viewing dashboards (Looker help).
Creating a new
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Historical Analytics dashboard
To create a new Analytics dashboarddashboard, you need a Creator license. Go to the Custom dashboards tab and click Create DashboardFrom the Historical Analytics homepage, click Create dashboard in the top-right corner. Type Provide a title name for your dashboard in the dialog box that appears. Click Create dashboardnew dashboard and click Confirm. You are redirected to your newly created dashboard. By default, the dashboard is empty.
The newly created dashboard is saved in a collection of custom dashboards.
Copying existing Historical Analytics dashboards
Copying an existing dashboard creates a new custom dashboard. If you have a Creator license, you can copy default or custom dashboards.
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You can copy dashboards in two ways:
- From the tab with all displayed dashboards. Click the copy icon in the bottom-right of the tile.
- Default dashboard
- Custom dashboard
- Default dashboard
- From an open dashboard. Click Copy in the top-right corner.
When you have copied the dashboard, give it a name.
For information about copying dashboards, see Clone or copy a dashboard in Accessing and navigating Insights products.
After providing a name, a new dashboard containing all tiles from the original dashboard appears. You can now change all tiles. The new dashboard is a custom dashboard and will be saved along with other custom dashboards.
Editing custom Historical Analytics dashboards
If you have a Creator license, you can edit custom dashboards. To start editing a new or existing custom dashboard, click Edit Dashboard. When in edit mode, you can add new text or visualization tiles. You can also add filters and change dashboard settings. Anyone with a Creator license can perform all actions listed in the dashboard menu.
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Anyone with a Viewer license can only download a dashboard, reset filters and change viewer's time zone.
Creating a new tile in a custom Historical Analytics dashboard
To add a tile to your dashboard, click Edit dashboard, either in the center of an empty dashboard, or from the menu in the top-right corner of the dashboard.
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Add a visualization tile to display agent events or interaction events. Looker documentation refers to visualization tiles as query tiles. In a visualization — or query — tile, firstly choose an Explore depending on the data you want to display — either Agent Events, Groups, Interaction Events, Interaction Summary, Skills, or Users (or other type that is available to you).
Exploring data
After choosing an Explore (Agent Events, Groups, Interaction Events, Interaction Summary, Skills, or Users, or other), you can see all the available data you can work with on when creating a tile. On the left, you can see s a field picker containing filter-only fields, dimensions, and measures. Use the tooltip alongside each dimension and measure to see its description. For information about all the fields in each explore, see Historical Analytics fields.
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Setting or changing default filter settings in Historical Analytics
When viewing Historical Analytics dashboards, viewers can filter dashboard data according to available filter settings. Most dashboards have filters that refine the data in all the tiles on that dashboard. Newly created dashboards do not have filters until configured. Default dashboards are configured with default filter settings.
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When you have finished making changes, click Add or Update. As a final step, to save the whole dashboard, click Save in the top right corner.
Changing default time
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zone in Historical Analytics
All default dashboards display data by default in the viewer's time zone according to their browser’s configuration.
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Now all data in the tiles in the dashboard will be displayed in the selected time zone unless the viewer chooses a different time zone.
Scheduling delivery of a Historical Analytics dashboard
If a user does not have access to Historical Analytics, but you have a Creator or Viewer license, you can send the user an email containing a copy of a dashboard. You can send the email to an individual user or to a group recipients either immediately or on a repeat basis. To send a dashboard, you must be viewing the dashboard (not in edit mode). Go to Dashboard actions and click Schedule delivery.
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For more information about visualizing and option settings, see Scheduling and sending dashboards (Looker help).
Downloading data from Historical Analytics dashboards
Anyone who can access Historical Analytics can download dashboard data. To download data, the dashboard must be in view — not edit — mode. You can download either the whole dashboard or an individual tile.
Downloading a whole dashboard
To download a whole dashboard, go to Dashboard actions and click Download.
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- PDF. The dashboard is saved in a PDF file and looks the same as when viewing the dashboard in Historical Analytics. We recommend that you click to select both of the Expand tables to show all rowsand Arrange dashboard tiles in a single column check boxes to include the whole data set and to show the data more clearly.
CSV. The dashboard's data is downloaded in a ZIP (.zip) file containing multiple CSV (.csv) files. Each CSV file represents a tile on the dashboard.
Note If you download the whole dashboard in CSV format, the downloaded data will be limited to the number of rows configured in the tile to a maximum of 5000 rows. To download more data, you need to download a single tile. For more details, see the Downloading an individual tile section later in this page.
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We recommend that you always set Number of rows and columns to include to All results. The All results option won't be available if you are using table calculations within the tile. You can either remove calculated fields or select the Custom option and specify the maximum number (100,000) of rows.
Table calculations are represented in green under the Data section.
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Deleting custom Historical Analytics dashboards
To delete a custom dashboard, you need a Creator license.
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