Difference between a report and a gauge

[Daniel Rubin]

I know I am able to set up reports and add them to my homepage to view them. They update automatically and I can share them with other users. Can you please explain the purpose of using a gauge in reporting and why one would use a gauge instead of a report. Is the only reason to use a gauge so I can add it to a public homepage (like the ITIL homepage) so anyone who sees the ITIL homepage can see the report/gauge, or are there other benefits to setting up gauges?

Thanks in advance!

Danny

[BenPhillipsSNC]

Hi Daniel,

I found this community thread on this topic and it might be useful to your question. Report and Gauge relationship

Thanks

[Tanaji Patil]

Hi Daniel,

According to me there is not much difference in adding a report to a homepage directly and creating a gauge and then adding it to the homepage.

Only difference I can see is - on clicking the 'Add to Homepage' it will create a gauge of the report and add it to the current homepage of the user automatically.

If you will click 'Make Gauge' then it will just create a gauge of the current report and you manually have to add it on the homepages you require.

Anyways it is the gauge which is added to the homepage in both the cases.

Thanks,

Tanaji

[Deepak Ingale1 · Accepted solution]

Hi Daniel,

Gauges are available for process users / end users so that they can add them up by themselves in the pages designed for them. By doing so, they have flexibility to modify the default page set for them.