Every CRM user can create their own personalised dashboard, highlighting the data that’s important to them.
If you are using the Sales CRM as well as Marketing and/or the Service Desk dashboard, you can select which dashboard to use as your default view. If you are using the Enterprise plan you will also be able to create your own Custom Charts.
In the Dashboard you can:
Add widgets
At the top of the page you will see that the widgets available have been divided into the relevant sections for Sales, Marketing and Service & Support. Hold your mouse over the widget you want and it will turn green, then click to add. Widgets that are already in use will appeared greyed-out. You can add widgets to your Sales, Marketing and Service & Support dashboards
At first, your widgets will be empty but as you start to use your CRM, adding company accounts and opportunities, the widgets will be populated automatically.
To add a new widget click the Add widgets button on the right of the screen.
This will open the widgets menu.
Examples
The Tasks widget give you a summary of your outstanding Account Tasks, sorted by the date due and priority:
- Overdue (red) = overdue means past the due date/time – i.e. today before now, yesterday and earlier (not including todays tasks without a set time)
- Priority (orange) = Where priority is set to “high” and “really high”, or due for today/overdue (i.e. before now, or today with no time)
- Today (blue) = this shows any tasks with a date of today (either all day, or time specific)
The To Do List widget lets you create a simple list on your dashboard for tasks that are not related to any dates, accounts, opportunities or cases. It’s useful for non-sales CRM users whose tasks are not date specific or related to any customer accounts. The new widget is added to a dashboard in the normal way from the Add Widgets button.
Once added, you can create a new “to do” just by typing into the input box and pressing return, or clicking away from the input. Your new items will appear in a list that looks like this:
You can edit an existing item by double-clicking on it, typing and then pressing return/clicking away. The checkbox on the left, when clicked will set the item as complete, shown by fading out and having a strike-through on the text. The trash icon will remove that one item, while pressing “Clear completed” will remove all completed/ticked items in one go
Move, Resize, Edit en Delete Widgets
In the top-right corner of each widget you’ll see icons to resize and delete. To move a widget on your dashboard, simply click in the title bar, then drag and drop it to the new location – it will automatically “snap-to” for the best fit. Clicking the delete icon (the bin) will remove the widget. The Configurable Widgets also show an edit icon. Clicking the edit icon will display the optional settings for this widget.