Dashboard landing pages
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Summary of Dashboard Landing Pages
Dashboard landing pages in the Customer Service Management (CSM) Configurable Workspace enable users such as agents and managers to display, customize, and share dashboards as their landing pages. These dashboards allow users to track important metrics, switch between dashboards, and configure their views without requiring system administrator intervention. System administrators activate this feature by enabling the CSM Dashboards landing page variant and configuring user privileges.
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The Dashboard Overview landing page presents dashboards as tiles showing key details like the title, creator, certification status, and bookmark indicators. This setup enhances flexibility by allowing users to create personalized dashboards or modify shared ones, facilitating faster dashboard creation and collaboration across teams.
Application Information and Activation
The CSM Dashboards landing page variant is part of the CSM and FSM Configurable Workspace Foundation plugin. The default dashboards visible depend on user roles and may require additional Performance Analytics plugins to unlock full dashboard content and functionality. Examples include Customer Service content packs and Advanced Work Assignment plugins.
By default, the dashboard landing page variant is inactive and must be activated and ordered lowest to replace the default landing page for targeted users. It is recommended to duplicate and customize default dashboards since those provided are read-only examples.
User Roles and Access
The Dashboard Overview landing page is accessible by users with roles such as admin, sncustomerserviceagent, sncustomerservice.consumeragent, and sncustomerservicemanager. Other roles continue to see the standard CSM Landing Page unless the administrator adjusts page audience settings. Roles also determine access to specific dashboards available on the landing page.
Default Dashboards
Four default dashboards are provided in read-only mode: two for agents (Customer Service Agent and Customer Service Agent – Advanced) and two for managers/admins (Customer Service Manager and Customer Service Manager – Advanced). Activating relevant Performance Analytics plugins unlocks complete dashboard tabs and additional widgets, such as organizational trends and work assignment analytics.
Dashboard Certification
Administrators can certify dashboards to mark them as company-approved and recommended. Default dashboards come pre-certified and this setting cannot be changed by admins. Certification applies only to newly created dashboards.
Working with Dashboards
From the Dashboard Overview landing page, both agents and managers can:
- View and filter dashboards by criteria such as name, owner, bookmarks, certification, creation, or sharing status.
- Select dashboards to open in new tabs and switch among multiple dashboards using a dashboard picker.
- Duplicate default dashboards to create editable copies.
- Edit dashboards by modifying existing elements or adding new ones via a configuration panel.
- Share dashboards with users, groups, or roles with view or edit permissions.
- Create new dashboards using an in-line editor to add and organize visualization elements.
- Bookmark dashboards for quick access and print dashboards in a printer-friendly format.
This empowers users to tailor dashboards for specific assignments or team needs and collaborate effectively without relying on administrator configuration.
Enable your users to display, customize, and share dashboards in CSM Configurable Workspace and use these dashboards as landing pages.
Workspace dashboards enable users such as agents and managers to configure and customize their own metrics. These users can switch between available dashboards and modify dashboard lists and metrics to track important information. They can also share dashboards with coworkers and across teams.
To display workspace dashboards, system administrators activate the CSM Dashboards landing page variant and configure user privileges. When configured, users included in the page audience see the Dashboard Overview landing page in CSM Configurable Workspace and the default dashboards included with that page.
The dashboards are represented by tiles on the Dashboard Overview landing page. The individual tiles show the title, the creator, whether the dashboard is certified, and an indication that the logged in user has bookmarked the dashboard.
Benefits of dashboard landing pages
Using a dashboard as a landing page gives your users more flexibility. Being able to easily customize a dashboard makes the page much more usable. Users can create their own lists and metrics to display the information they need and then share these dashboards with other users. As an example, teams can share a single dashboard or new agents can modify a shared dashboard to create their own. It is much faster to create dashboards because they do not require configuration by a system administrator.
Application information
The CSM Dashboards landing page variant is included with the CSM and FSM Configurable Workspace Foundation plugin (com.snc.uib.cwf_workspace).
The CSM Configurable Workspace application, which includes the CSM and FSM Configurable Workspace plugin, is available from the ServiceNow® Store.
- Performance Analytics - Content Pack - Customer Service (com.snc.pa.customer_service)
- Performance Analytics – Content Pack – Customer Service Management – Advanced (com.snc.pa.customer_service_advanced)
- Performance Analytics Premium for Customer Service (com.snc.pa.premium.cs)
- Performance Analytics - Content Pack – Advanced Work Assignment (com.snc.pa.awa)
Request apps on the Store
Visit the ServiceNow Store to view all the available apps, and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the ServiceNow Store version history release notes.
Activating the CSM Dashboards landing page variant
For more information about activating a page variant and setting the order, see Set record page order.
User roles for the Dashboard Overview landing page
- admin
- sn_customerservice_agent
- sn_customerservice.consumer_agent
- sn_customerservice_manager
Roles determine view access for the dashboards available with the Dashboard Overview landing page. For details, see Default dashboards.
The service management agent role (sn_esm_agent) contains the data visualizations creator role (viz_creator), which is a role associated with the Visualization Designer and Visualization Library. Users with the viz_creator role can create visualizations. The customer service agent (sn_customerservice_agent) and consumer service agent (sn_customerservice.consumer_agent) roles contain the sn_esm_agent role. For more information, see Data visualizations in Platform Analytics.
Dashboard Overview landing page default dashboards
The Dashboard Overview landing page includes the following dashboards for agents.
- Customer Service Agent
- Customer Service Agent – Advanced
The Dashboard Overview landing page includes the following dashboards for managers and admins.
- Customer Service Agent
- Customer Service Agent – Advanced
- Customer Service Manager
- Customer Service Manager – Advanced
| Landing page | Details |
|---|---|
| Customer Service Agent | Available with the CSM Configurable Workspace (com.snc.uib.csm_agent_workspace) plugin. Out of box, the Customer Service Agent dashboard includes the widgets on the My Work tab.
Note: The tab is not visible because it is the only tab on the dashboard. Activating the Performance Analytics - Content Pack - Customer Service (com.snc.pa.customer_service) plugin provides the complete Customer Service Agent dashboard with all tabs. |
| Customer Service Agent - Advanced | Available with the following plugins:
Activating the Performance Analytics - Content Pack – Advanced Work Assignment (com.snc.pa.awa) plugin adds two additional widgets to the Organizational Trends tab:
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| Customer Service Manager | Available with the following plugins:
Activating the Performance Analytics - Content Pack - Customer Service (com.snc.pa.customer_service) plugin provides the complete Customer Service Manager dashboard with all tabs. |
| Customer Service Manager - Advanced | Available with the following plugins:
Activating the Performance Analytics - Content Pack – Advanced Work Assignment (com.snc.pa.awa) plugin adds the Work Assignment Analytics tab to the Customer Service Manager - Advanced dashboard. |
Certifying a dashboard
Users with the admin role can certify a dashboard to indicate that it is company-approved and recommended for use. The default dashboards available from the Dashboard Overview landing page are certified and admins cannot change this setting. Admins can only certify new dashboards. For more information, see Certify a Platform Analytics dashboard.
Working with dashboards
Agents can create their own dashboards and share those dashboards with other agents or assignment groups. For example, agents can create dashboards with metrics and lists that support specific assignments, such as a temporary weekend assignment.
- View the default dashboards available for their role.
- Filter the available dashboards.
- Select a dashboard tile to display the dashboard in a new tab. If more than one dashboard is available, the user can switch between the available dashboards by making a selection from the dashboard picker.
- Duplicate and customize the default dashboards.
- View dashboard details such as the dashboard name, description, and visibility.
- Edit dashboards using a configuration panel.
- Share dashboards with other users or groups and grant edit or view-only rights.
- Create new dashboards.
- Create and share visualization elements from the Platform Analytics Workspace.
See the task descriptions in the following table for more information.
| Task | Description |
|---|---|
| View the default dashboards available for your role |
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| View dashboard details | Select a dashboard to open the Details panel. |
| Filter dashboards | Several filter options are available on the Dashboard Overview landing page. Users can filter the available dashboards in the following ways:
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| Duplicate a dashboard |
For more information, see Duplicate a Platform Analytics dashboard. |
| Edit a dashboard |
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| Share a dashboard |
For more information, see Share a Platform Analytics dashboard. |
| Create a dashboard |
When you create a dashboard with the in-line editor, several elements are available to help you organize and populate the information on your dashboard. For more information, see Exploring Platform Analytics dashboards. |
| Print a dashboard |
For more information, see Print a Platform Analytics dashboard. |
| Bookmark a dashboard |
For more information, see Bookmark a Platform Analytics dashboard. |