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Level 3
June 20, 2017
Delivered

Make Report 'Description' visible when reports are displayed on a Dashboard

  • June 20, 2017
  • 7 replies
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The description of a Report is not visible when the report is displayed on a Dashboard.

 
Proposed change:
Display the description of reports on a dashboard or add the option to the dashboard editing UI, so that the dashboard editor can control, for each of the included reports separately, if the description should be displayed or not.
 
Benefit:
Ability to provide details of each report to the dashboard audience.

7 replies

Level 4
November 4, 2019

Sometimes I have to include special instructions or notes in the Report Description field.

Currently, they are not accessible when the reports are embedded in a Dashboard.


Please allow the option to toggle them on, maybe similar to "Show Prompts in Dashboards" or a simple show/hide toggle on the dashboard itself.

Level 2
August 9, 2023

This Idea was added back in 2019, was hopeing to see an update. I feel this is a legitimate ask as showing a brief description about the report helps when users see a set of reports together in their Dashboard.

KellieGardner
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
June 26, 2024

@bethanycl1 - A work around I've done is to create a report of the reports that are on my dashboard and pull in the report name and the description and add it to the top of the dashboard.

 

 

Level 3
June 28, 2024

Great thanks for the suggestion @kelliegardner we can definitely use this as a workaround until, (hopefully) the idea gets picked up for progression 🙂


Thanks again
Beth  

jon_chen
Community Manager
Community Manager
July 8, 2024

@kelliegardner All done! Thanks for the heads up.

Adobe Employee
November 7, 2024

This is being addressed through the Canvas Dashboards reporting surface and is available now.

Both classic reports placed on a Canvas Dashboard as well as new canvas-based visualizations will have an information icon to the right of the report name to display the report description. 

 

 

Adobe Employee
November 7, 2024
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Adobe Employee
November 14, 2024

For clarification, this is Delivered in the Canvas Dashboards presentation of a dashboard. When report that has a description is placed on a Canvas Dashboard, users will see the info icon to the right of the report name and can view the description.