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Dashboard Templates

This article explains the different types and uses of templates in PX dashboards.

Overview 

Dashboard Templates help to enhance the user experience of creating dashboards for different use cases, with reduced efforts. They are ready-to-use templates with a curated list of  widgets that help you customize your dashboard to derive effective information of your product. You can use You can use the pre-configured list of widgets, or even add or remove widgets from other templates to customize the dashboard. 

Dashboard Templates

Following are the different types of dashboard templates: 

  • Adoption
  • Onboarding
  • Retention
  • Trial

Adoption

The Adoption template for dashboards lists widgets that help to understand and analyze product usage and adoption. For example, consider that you have released a new feature or product for users to try. To ease analyzing the feature adoption, you can use the Adoption template to track:

  • Number of active users using the feature.
  • Increase or decrease in adoption as compared to the previous time period that you selected.
  • Gauge the CES survey feedback.

The below table lists the widgets and the default time granularity configuration in adoption template. 

Widget 

Graph Selection

Default Time

Active Users

Line, Bar, Area(Default), KPI

4 Weeks

Active Accounts

Line, Bar, Area(Default), KPI

4 Weeks

Average Days Active

NA

12 Weeks

Feature KPI

Line, Bar, Area, KPI(Default)

NA

CES Performance

Donut

4 Weeks

Feature Performance

Line(Default), Bar, Area, KPI

NA

Retention Analysis

Line, Bar(Default), Area, KPI

NA

For more information on widgets, refer to the Widgets Categories section in the Widgets in Gainsight PX article.

Dashboard_Adoption.jpg

Note: You can select specific or all available widgets from the Adoption template according to your requirement.

Onboarding

The Onboarding template helps you to understand and analyze the various aspects of your customer's journey, from initial sign-up to product usage. The widgets listed in this template help you to dive deeper into information such as the number of new leads, users and accounts created, session count and session duration in a particular period of time, and so on. Further, you can also analyze feature or product performance, essential metrics such as completion rate, average completion time, and time to step for a Funnel report. 

The below table lists the widgets and the default time granularity configuration in onboarding template. 

Widget 

Graph Selection

Default Time 

Active Users

Line, Bar, Area(Default), KPI

4 Weeks

New Users

Line(Default), Bar, Area, KPI 30 Days

New Accounts

Line, Bar(Default), Area, KPI

30 Days

Active Accounts

Line, Bar, Area(Default), KPI

4 Weeks

Average Days Active

NA

12 Weeks

Average Session Duration

NA

30 Days

Guide Performance

Line(Default), Bar, Area, KPI

4 Weeks

Feature Performance

Line(Default), Bar, Area, KPI

NA

Session Count

Line(Default), Bar, Area, KPI

7 Days

Feature KPI

KPI

NA

CES Performance

Survey

4 Weeks

NPS Performance

Survey

4 Weeks

Funnel

NA

NA

Stickiness Ratio

Line(Default), Bar, Area, KPI

NA

For more information on widgets, refer to the Widgets Categories section in the Widgets in Gainsight PX article.

Dashboard_Onboarding.jpg

Note: You can select specific or all available widgets from the Adoption template according to your requirement.

Retention 

The Retention template for dashboards list  widgets which help to understand and analyze user or account retention. You can use the Retention template to understand adoption and usage metrics of users. Key Widgets in the template are Retention Analysis and Stickiness Ratio. 

The below table lists the widgets and the default time granularity configuration in retention template. 

Widget 

Graph Selection

Default Time

Active Users

Line, Bar, Area(Default), KPI

4 Weeks

Active Accounts

Line, Bar, Area(Default), KPI

4 Weeks

Retention Analysis

Line, Bar(Default), Area, KPI

NA

Stickiness Ratio

Line(Default), Bar, Area, KPI

NA

Feature KPI

Line(Default), Bar, Area, (KPI)

NA

NPS Performance

Survey

4 Weeks

Feature Performance

Line(Default), Bar, Area, KPI

NA

Session Count

Line(Default), Bar, Area, KPI

7 Days

For more information on widgets, refer to the Widgets Categories section in the Widgets in Gainsight PX article.

Dashboard_Retention.jpg

Note: You can select specific or all available widgets from the Adoption template according to your requirement.

Trial

The Trial template helps you to understand and analyze the holistic performance of your product’s trial program. This template has a list of widgets that cumulatively help derive insights into the product usage of customers who are in the trial period. The widgets listed under this template help you to understand the number of new leads, first time users, number of active accounts, active session durations, and the PX events recorded. It also helps to analyze different cohorts and behaviors for custom events. Retention report helps you to gauge the product performance in trial period.

The below table lists the widgets and the default time granularity configuration in trial template:

Widget 

Graph Selection

Default Value

New Leads

Line, Bar, Area, KPI(Default)

30 Days

New Users

Line(Default), Bar, Area, KPI 30 Days

Active Accounts

Line, Bar, Area(Default), KPI

4 Weeks

Average Session Duration

NA

4 Weeks

Events Recorded

Line, Bar, Area(Default), KPI

7 Days

Query Builder

Pie-Chart

NA

Funnel

Report

NA

CES Performance

Survey

4 Weeks

Retention Analysis

Line, Bar(Default), Area, KPI

NA

For more information on widgets, refer to the Widgets Categories section in the Widgets in Gainsight PX article.

Dashboard_Trial.jpg

Note: You can select specific or all available widgets from the Adoption template according to your requirement.

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