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Customized Date Range Dialog
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You can include All website items for a specific widget, or choose Customize... and manually select and add individual items. You may also remove items using the same dialog.
Object Explorer Dialog
You may also enter a term to Search for it within the Object Explorer, which will open a new dialog window. Click Browse to return to the selected item in the Object Explorer.
Search Results Dialog
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Enter a login account name or display name in the Name field and then click Search. Select the desired result and click the Add button to add it to the filter. To exclude a user or group, click the Exclude button (the name will appear in red).
Filters are given precedence to users over groups. For instance, if a selected User A belongs to an excluded Group B, then User A will be contained in the results data.
Select Users and Groups Dialog
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From the Filter tab, you may include choose to include No Visitor Segments or choose Customize... to open the Select Visitor Segments dialog, which includes the following options:
- Pre-defined Segments - Filter reports using fixed segments based on traffic sources, including available short links and campaigns. For more information see "Visitor Segments".
- Traffic Sources - Filter reports according to sources referring to your internet website. Any of these details may be applied by Matches exactly, Does not match exactly, Contains, and Does not contain.
- Source - The domain where the traffic originates from
- Medium - Choose which medium such as email or web referred the user.
- Term - Term applies to traffic led to your site by a search term
- Campaign - The name of an active or former campaign.
- Content - Choose the content source that referred your visitors
- Source - The domain where the traffic originates from
- User Behavior: Goal - Filter reports by Goals. For more information see "How to Create Goals."
- Country - Filter reports according to which country on Earth your visitors are from. CardioLog uses internal and third-party data to retrieve visitors' geographic locations from their IP addresses.
- Active User Categories - Filter reports by Department and Region according to their classification in the Active Directory "Configuring Visitor Segmentation for Authenticated Users".
Select Visitor Segments Dialog
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You can change and preview the visual appearance of the data displayed in charts from the Appearance tab in the widget preferences dialog. None of these settings will change how the data is collected. Some options have sub menus accessible by clicking them. These options appear with highlighted text and are Legend, Title, Axis X Title, Axis Y Title, Enable Scale Breaks, Chart Background, Chart Plotting Area, and Chart Series.
- Click Preview to view a live sample of your chart.
- Click Save to save all changes and return to your report.
- Click Cancel to return to your report without saving any changes.
Below is a short description of available appearance options. The X Axis is on the horizontal plane and usually displays a time based value. The Y Axis is on the vertical plane and usually displays the relevant data. Not all details are available for use at the same time.
Enable 3D | Display chart in 3D. This is required in order to view data over parallel time periods, which can be configured in the Group By details | |
Perspective | Display chart at a slight angle; only available if 3D is enabled | |
Values | Display chart with numerical values above every data point | |
Legend | Display a legend describing each type of data point shown on the chart | |
| Inside Chart Area | Display the legend within the graph lines |
| Style | Choose from List (automatic), Row (horizontal), or Column (vertical) |
| Docking | Choose from Bottom, Top, Right, or Left to pin the legend |
| Font Details | Assign text styles based on font typeface, font size, font color, bold, italic, and underline |
Show Dates in Legend | Include the dates the widget is collecting data from in the legend | |
Title | Display the title inside the chart. The title is entered in the text box at the top of the dialog | |
| Title style | Choose details for: Alignment, font typeface, font size, font color, bold, italic, underline | |
X Axis Title | Display the X axis title | |
| X Axis Title Details | Title, alignment, font typeface, font size, font color, bold, italic, underline | |
Y Axis Title | Display the Y axis title | |
| Y Axis Title Details | Title, alignment, font typeface, font size, font color, bold, italic, underline | |
Enable Scale Breaks | Insert a divider across the graph area of a chart to denote a break in continuity between high and low values on an axis. Use a scale break to display two distinct ranges in the same chart area. | |
| Scale Break Details | Break line type, spacing, color | |
Show Preferences | Display the widget preferences in the report | |
Show Help | Display a general description of the widget | |
Show X axis margins | Display chart with the first value on the x axis indented from | |
Show all X axis labels | Display chart with all X axis labels, instead of rounded interval values | |
Show all Y axis labels | Display chart with all Y axis labels, instead of rounded interval values | |
Highlight min and max vals | Highlight the data points on the graph containing maximum and minimum Y values | |
Highlight weekends | Highlight the weekends in a chart plotting area, (Weekends will only be highlighted if they are included within the date range chosen in the Filter tab) | |
Chart Background | You may choose a background design to help present the data.
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| Chart background details | Background color, gradient, hatch style, secondary background color, border style. (Note: not all details are available for use at the same time.) | |
Chart Plotting Area | You may choose a design for the graph area to help present the data | |
| Chart Plotting Area Details | Color, gradient, hatch style, secondary color, border style, border color, border size (Note: not all details are available for use at the same time.) | |
Chart Series | You may choose a design for the data points plotted on the chart | |
| Chart Series Details: | Gradient, hatch style, secondary color (Note: not all details are available for use at the same time.) | |
Chart Type | Choose the type and style of graph you would like to display. Depending on the type of chart you choose, different relevant options will become available to choose from. | |
Drawing Style | If available for your desired chart type, select a display style for your data | |
Point Width | If available for your desired chart type, select the width of the bar or column. | |
Point Depth | Cylinder, Bar Cylinder | Select the display thickness of the data points |
Gap Depth | Cylinder, Bar Cylinder | Select the distance between data series that are displayed along different rows |
Clustered | Column, Bar, Cylinder, Bar Cylinder | Display the data series along distinct rows |
Lighting | Area, Spline Area | Choose the lighting style for the design under the data curve
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Label Style | Pie, Doughnut | Choose where the data labels will be displayed: Inside, Outside, Disabled |
Radius | Doughnut | Choose the amount of space in the center of the graph |
Collect pie slices | Pie, Doughnut | Collect small slices into a single slice to prevent overlapped labels |
| Collected % | Collect any slice that is less below the Collected % threshold into a single slice |
| Collected color | Collected slice color |
| Collected label | Enter a label for the collected slice that will appear inside the slice
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| Show exploded | Separate the collected slice slightly from the rest of the graph |
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Data may be grouped using several parameters.
- Time Interval - The time (X) axis can be displayed in fixed resolutions between minutes and a year depending on your Filter Date Range settings.
- Chart Data - You may choose to label and sort the plotted data on your chart.
- Edit the label text you would like for each set of data reported
- Select the order of appearance using the drop down menu numbers between 1 and 4
- Enable the data you would like to appear on the chart using the check boxes
Chart Widget "Group By" Preferences Dialog
Chart widgets can display multiple series of data based on custom time frames. You can re-order the series' data points, edit their title and compare parallel date ranges.
Note - In order to view more than two sets of data plotted, you must Enable 3D in the widget's Appearance Preferences
- Home Page - Displays data for the selected website item home page.
- All Pages - Displays data for all children items of a selected Website Item.
Chart Widget Group By Preferences Details
Click the time period next to the page you would like to view data in parallel to your current data set. Choose a date range using the Choose Parallel Period dialog, and then click OK to save your choice.
Choose Parallel Period Dialog
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Compared to the other types of widgets, most details are fixed for Tables. However, you can edit relevant parameters in the Advanced section, including:
- Number of rows - Choose the total number of rows to display. The widget will automatically sort pages if there are more than 10 items in the table.
- Minimum value - Set the threshold for reporting results. Items with values below this number will not appear. For example, by setting this value to 0 in the Page Views report, pages that were not viewed at all will be included in the results.
- Sort order - Choose between ascending or descending for the default display. Clicking on a column title will sort the table according to that column, clicking the title again will sort the column in the opposite order.
- Show Aggregated values for child items - Choose to display values that include all sub-items on each row, or exclusively the listed item.
- Show first level child items only - Choose to show results for only the first level of sub-pages below the selected item as organized in the Object Explorer.
- Compare to Past Period - Enable this to display two more columns that report the relevant value of each row for the past period and it's percent change. For example, if the Filter Date Range is "This Week" for a Page Views widget, the Past column will show the page views for "Last Week"
Table Widget Advanced Preferences
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Table widgets provide contextual menus for selected items that list report templates in order to view more information about an item. You can view more detailed data for a folder, single document or item including child items. You can also view more detailed data for specific users and user categories.
To expand reports for an item, click the item and select the desired report template. To create a new template, see "Report Templates."
Table Widget Drilldown Menu
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In the Meter Preferences tab you can set the basic parameters of your meter. The available options are:
- Min Value - This is the minimum value displayable on the meter, starting on the left.
- Max Value - This is the maximum value displayable on the meter, ending on the right.
- Undershoot - The meter will display the data in red for all values below this limit.
- Overshoot - The meter will display the data in red for all values exceeding this limit.
- Send Alert - A KPI Alert email will be automatically sent to the distribution list if the Undershoot or Overshoot values are reached.
After setting the widget's preferences, click Preview to view your changes in the preferences dialog, or click Save to save your choices and return to the report.
In the Advanced section you have the option to display data for either the selected website item and all of it's sub-pages, referred to as All Pages, or just the selected website item.
To view data for All Pages, select Yes from the drop down menu in the advanced settings. Select No to view data only for the selected website item
Meter Widget Advanced Preferences
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The gear icon in the top right corner of all widgets is knows as the Widget Settings button. It has the following options:
- Remove - Delete the widget from the report
- Edit - Open the Preferences dialog
- Export to CSV - Export the widget's data for use with Microsoft Excel and other spreadsheet applications.
- Restore to Default Preferences - Reset the widget to the default setting for all preferences
Widget Settings Menu
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The Question Mark 
icon in the top right cordner of all widgets is Help. The bubble displays the widget's status, preferences, and a brief description of the widget's features. Simply hover over the button to view the details.
Widget Help Bubble
Similarly, the widget description can be found in the settings dialog in the About This Chart section.
Widget "About This" Preference Dialog
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Use the top toolbar to apply filters or a global time range for all widgets in a report. When using page filters, all individual display preferences for the widgets in the report are assigned the new value.
Note: Due to the fact that the widgets use different filter sets. For example, while some widgets filter Website Items by URL, others filter Website Items using the Object Explorer, the filter settings in the Preferences pane will apply only to relevant widgets.
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For enhanced performance and quick loading, widgets display cached values while being edited in an existing report. Widgets in cached mode display static data based on the current date range selected in in the date range menu. To view current data for a report, click the Actions menu in the top left corner of the Reports main window and select Refresh.
A refreshed widget will display data according to the list below, depending on the time frame selected in the top right corner of the page.
- This Hour - shows cached data until the last rounded minute.
- This Day - shows cached data until the last rounded hour.
- This Week - shows cached data until last rounded hour.
- This Month - shows cached data until last rounded day.
- This Quarter - shows cached data until last rounded day.
- This Year - shows cached data until last rounded day
Report data caching is enabled by default. The cached data is stored in the database for 182 days. For more information see
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Report Center Actions Menu