What Actions are Available in Widgets?

Updated 

29 days ago

Summary

On the Ads Reporting Dashboard window, hover over the desired widget Options icon Space_Icon_Options (Horizontal).png in the top right corner of the widget to see all the available actions. This article will cover about all the types of actions available in widgets.

Widget Options — Descriptions

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Action
Description
Edit Widget

Change the characteristics of the widget.

Lock

Lock the widget so it cannot be edited or have its date range changed.

Create an Alert

Click to set an alert for your widget against a threshold value.

Export Widget

Export the individual widget as PDF, PNG, and XLSX.

Move to

Move the widget into another tab of the report.

Add to Custom Dashboard

Enables you to clone your widget within:

  • The same dashboard

  • Different dashboards

Note

By default, the dashboard type will be Ads Reporting but you can also clone into Core Reporting or you can create a new dashboard for that widget.

Time and Time Zone Filter

An individual date range can be selected for the widget that will override the dashboard date range. You can also change the time zone for that date range.

Delete Widget

Remove the widget. Once removed, cannot be undone.

Resize Widget

Resize the widget as desired.

Circumstantial Widget Actions - The following actions only appear on some widgets:

Visualization

Widgets can be changed to another compatible format, e.g. spline graphs can be changed to line graphs. The dimensions, metrics, widget filters, etc. are preserved but the widget type is altered.

Aggregations

The aggregation period can be used to change how the data is grouped within a widget using Date.

Annotations

Annotations can be added from this menu for graph widgets using Date.

Targets

Targets can be added externally to graph widgets.

View All in Ads Manager

Click to view the widget data in Ads Manager.

Show Unique Total

Show Unique Total option is available only for pie chart widgets to resolve any discrepancy in the total data projected.

Note: The total data projected will remain unaltered when Show Unique Total is enabled.

Widget Actions — Descriptions

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Ads Reporting Widget Actions

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Action
Description

1

Drop-down Options

(Only for Table widgets)

Hover over the Drop-down icon Picture 1.png  alongside a Table widget metric name to select from the below options:

Sort Ascending

Click to sort the metric column in Ascending order.

Sort Descending

Click to sort the metric column in Descending order.

Conditional Formatting

Click to add color tags to your Ads Reporting Table widget data. Click on the Drop-down icon Picture 1.png and select from the following value ranges:

  • Greater Than

  • Equal to

  • Less Than

Enter the metric value for the selected range and click on the Color box alongside to select the color code for values within that range. Click Apply.

To revert back to the original version, click Reset.

Change Decimal Point

Click to change the number of decimal places you want your reporting data in. Click on the Drop-down icon Picture 1.png, enter the value, and click Apply.

To revert back to the original version, click Reset.

2
Refresh

Click to reload and refresh the widget data.

3
Filter

Hover over this icon to learn about the applied filters.

4

Change Visualization Type

Click to change the visualization type of your widget. Learn more about visualization types in Visualization Type.

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