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Custom dashboard widgets

Create tailored dashboards with widgets to track trends, frequencies, and leaderboards for detailed feedback analysis.

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Written by Simplesat
Updated over a week ago

Widgets are your data storytellers.

They transform customer feedback into visually engaging charts and graphs, offering actionable insights at a glance.

You can easily customize your dashboard by resizing and reordering widgets to present data exactly how you need it. Most widgets also let you download data as a CSV file or save the chart as a PDF image for further analysis or reporting.


Widget types

Each widget in your dashboard is designed to showcase data in a way that best suits your analysis needs:

  • Experimentation is encouraged - Try different widget types with your account's data to discover unique insights each one provides.

  • Interactive exploration - Click on data points in most widgets to see a detailed breakdown of the responses contributing to that specific metric.

Here's a guide to help you choose the right widget for your needs:

90-day moving average

  • Purpose - Track satisfaction scores over time.

  • Insight - Shows a smoothed trend line by averaging data over 90 days, highlighting overall satisfaction trends without daily fluctuations.

  • Configuration options - Combine multiple datasets for comprehensive trend analysis.

preview 90 day moving average widget

Satisfaction score

  • Purpose - Display current scores for key metrics like CSAT, NPS, CES, or 5-Star ratings.

  • Insight - Shows percentage change from previous periods for quick performance evaluation.

Answers summary

  • Purpose - Summarize answer counts by sentiment for an overall view of customer feelings.

  • Insight - Highlight changes in sentiment distribution between periods to spot shifts in customer satisfaction.

preview answers summary widget

Answers over time

  • Purpose - Visualize sentiment trends to spot changes in feedback volume or quality.

  • Insight - Group by time periods to identify feedback spikes or trends, especially useful for detecting increases in negative feedback.

preview ratings over time widget

Responses/response rates over time

  • Purpose - Track response volume or response rate over time.

  • Insight - Similar to Answers over time but focuses on total response count for a broader view of engagement.

  • Configuration options - Choose between tracking responses or response rates based on your analysis goals.

preview responses over time widget

Sentiment distribution

  • Purpose - Get a visual snapshot of feedback sentiment distribution.

  • Insight - The donut chart clearly shows proportions of positive, neutral, and negative feedback.

preview sentiment distribution widget

Answer distribution

  • Purpose - Break down specific choices selected in survey questions.

  • Insight - Analyze multiple choice, multi-select, and sliding scale questions in detail to see exact response distribution.

preview answer distibution widget

Leaderboard

  • Purpose - Rank team members, customers, or companies based on performance metrics.

  • Insight - Sort by different criteria for dynamic performance comparisons.

preview leaderboard table widget

Question completion

  • Purpose - See completion rates for survey questions.

  • Insight - Identify drop-off points or questions causing friction to improve your surveys.

preview question completion widget

Completion summary

  • Purpose - Get a detailed view of question completion rates, including views, skips, and drop-offs.

  • Insight - Analyze survey engagement patterns to improve completion rates.

preview question completion summary widget

Topic trends

  • Purpose - See how topics trend over time, based on count or score.

  • Insight - Quickly spot positive or negative trends across key topics to identify areas needing attention.

  • Configuration options - Choose between topic count or topic score based on your analysis needs.

preview topic trends widget

Topic frequency

  • Purpose - View topic frequency within a specific date range.

  • Insight - Identify patterns in how often specific topics arise to highlight priorities or recurring themes.

  • Configuration options

    • Select count view for raw numbers or stacked bar chart for proportional view.

    • Choose between tracking topics or topic groups based on your analysis goals.

preview topic frequency widget

Topic leaderboard

  • Purpose - Rank topics by count to see most and least mentioned topics.

  • Insight - Compare positive and negative trends side-by-side for a quick snapshot of successes and issues.

  • Configuration options - Display either topics or topic groups.

preview topic leaderboard


Creating widgets

To create a widget:

  • Go to the custom dashboard

  • Click the Add widget button in the top right corner

  • Choose your desired widget type

  • Customize the settings

Here's what each setting does:

Name

  • Labels your widget at the top.

  • Tip: Use descriptive titles like Monthly CSAT Score - Support Team for easy identification.

Question type

  • Filters questions to match the selected response scale.

  • Note: You must select this first before choosing specific questions to ensure accurate calculations.

Question

  • Determines which data your widget will display.

  • The dropdown will only contain questions that match the question type selected previously.

Multiple question and survey datasets

  • Combines data from multiple sources into one widget.

Survey

  • Specifies which survey(s) to pull data from.

Calculation

  • Sets how your data is processed mathematically.

    • CSAT - % Positive / Total ratings

    • NPS - % Positive - % Negative

    • Mean - Sum of all ratings / Total ratings

Dataset combination

  • Controls how multiple datasets appear in your widget.

  • Use separate lines to compare trends between teams, or combine them for an overall view.

Dimension

  • Sets the comparison category for Leaderboard widgets.

    • Team members

    • Customers

    • Companies

Feedback type

  • Determines how Leaderboard data is categorized.

  • Try using this to: Group by sentiment for a high-level overview or show individual ratings for detailed analysis.

Include/exclude topics

  • Controls which topics appear in your widget.

  • Use this to:

    • Focus your data by excluding irrelevant topics

    • Highlight specific topics you're monitoring

Topic display limit

  • Sets the maximum number of topics shown.

  • Combine with topic filtering to create a focused view of your most important topics.

Date range

  • Sets the time period for your widget data.

  • Try using this to: Compare different time periods across widgets to spot trends over time.

Filters

  • Narrows down data based on specific criteria.

  • Tip: Filter by customer segments or regions to pinpoint what's driving trends in your data.


Managing widgets in the dashboard

You can easily adjust your dashboard layout:

Reordering widgets

  • Click and drag any widget to a new location.

  • All changes are saved automatically.

Resizing widgets

  • Hover over a widget β†’ Select a width option from the top right corner.

  • This helps you optimize your dashboard space, giving complex data more room while keeping simple metrics compact.

  • Options: 1/3, 1/2, 2/3, or full width.

Editing and deleting widgets

  • Click the three dots menu on any widget β†’ Select Edit or Delete.

  • Deleted widgets can't be recovered.

The dashboard dynamically saves your layout changes, instantly reflecting them for all viewers.

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