I love the power of Horizon Analytics and the capabilities to design some really insightful reporting in Gainsight. The UI has improved so dramatically and it’s one of my favorite parts of the tool to play with.
It would be even better if the dashboard builder had the ability to do a few more additional things to improve the admin experience:
- ability to “snap” a report in place
- many times I find that I don’t have a clear idea of the dashboard I want to build until I have a bunch of reports built out and then I’m dragging and dropping new ones around existing ones. The drag and drop function is tough when there is a lot existing already and if you want to maintain the grid layout without disturbing things too much from their prior positions.
- if you could freeze or snap a report into a designated spot and prevent it from moving, this would improve the build process significantly
- ability to design “spaces” within the dashboard
- oftentimes I’m using the rich text widget to carve out sections of my dashboard. For example, I might have high level aggregate reports to show trendlines at the top of a dashboard, but lower down I want to build ad hoc reports for self servicing data.
- it would be beneficial to be able to carve out designated sections or spaces within the dashboard, and then be able to drag and drop a specific report into a specific space
- allow adding of reports to designated spaces
- right now all new reports added to a dashboard default to the bottom. This is really painful if you’re trying to take a newly built report and add it to an existing dashboard, because then you have to potentially drag it all the way up and risk disturbing where all the other reports are sitting