Dashboard Preferences
~4 min readDashboard Preferences
Each dashboard has its own settings panel. Open it from Dashboard ▾ → Settings… above the dashboard. Click Save settings when you're done — the changes apply immediately to every card on that dashboard, and don't affect your other dashboards.
Information bar style
Controls how the status strip below each goal is displayed — see Reading Your Card.
| Style | What it looks like |
|---|---|
| Table (default) | A compact grid of labeled cells with a colored accent at the bottom of each cell |
| Pill | A row of small rounded, color-coded tags — lighter and more compact; they wrap if there are many |
| Bar | A single strip with a header showing the overall result |
All three show the same information.
Card colours
The green / amber / red used on info bars and hero numbers, based on goal progress.
| Palette | Colors |
|---|---|
| Classic RAG (default) | Red, amber, green |
| Colorblind-safe | Blue, orange, amber |
| Muted | Softer, desaturated red / amber / green |
| Custom | Choose your own Good (Hit), Warning and Critical colors |
Goal strictness
How closely a metric has to track its goal before a card is flagged as needing attention or at risk.
| Setting | Effect |
|---|---|
| Lenient | Easier thresholds for Needs Attention and At Risk |
| Standard (default) | Balanced |
| Strict | Tighter thresholds — flags problems earlier |
Use Strict for dashboards you want to be an early-warning system, and Lenient for stretch-goal dashboards where you expect to be behind for much of the period.
Status vocabulary
How Status labels are worded on cards and in notifications: Standard (Exceeding, Goal Reached, Needs Attention, At Risk, Critical), Retail, or Plain English.
Under Band labels (Advanced) you can also rename individual Status and Forecast bands — for example, rename Critical to Behind plan — to match how your team talks.
Rename and describe a dashboard
The dashboard name and description are edited directly in the title strip at the top of the dashboard: click either to edit it in place.
What can't be changed per dashboard
Time zone and currency come from your Google Analytics property's reporting settings and aren't configurable per dashboard.
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