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spencer_engel
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January 30, 2019
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There's no way to automate reports to internal Execs in Gainsight

  • January 30, 2019
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A customer of mine wants to be able to send reports to her boss. The use case is pretty straightforward: Right now, the exec is sent an Excel spreadsheet every Friday with a list of their accounts and key attributes. This exec does not have access to Gainsight, so simply having the exec viewing a dashboard will not work.

So what my customer wanted to do is automate a report that would be sent out to the Exec. Initially, I figured this would be straightforward, only to discover that all the potential solutions solve about 75% of the use case.

  • Send a program - Can't do this because every recipient has to be associated with an account ID. Even if the exec were assigned to a dummy account (which is apparently our suggestion?), the exec still wouldn't be able to get the report that spans across the whole customer base.
  • Send an outreach - At least with an outreach, you are still allowed to send to internal users without associating them to a dummy account. (Which begs the question: why can we not do this with programs anymore?) However, I recently discovered that we cannot attach reports to these outreaches, so I can't achieve this use case.
  • Share a dashboard - I suppose I can do this, but not in an automated fashion.
I'd love to hear if I'm missing something obvious here or if product has anything to add here with suggestions for how to achieve an important use case like this.

Best answer by abhishek_sivaraman
Hey All,

Valid Points. Good News here. We are going to remove the need to mandate account id/relationship id to reports when you send it via programs.

Also, we are including a exclusive strategy for Users in program which will help address these use cases specifically. It should be available in the coming 1 or 2 months.

Thanks

Abhishek S

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jnoble100
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August 26, 2020

Another +1 for this functionality, outside of the programmes in JO. Would be very useful to be able to quickly and easily set up scheduled reports to be emailed - as attachments.