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FAQs: Zoho Desk Dashboards

What are Zoho Desk Dashboards?

Zoho Desk Dashboards offer a visual representation of your help desk data, providing real-time insights into key performance indicators. These interactive dashboards help you monitor ticket trends, agent performance, customer satisfaction, and more, enabling data-driven decisions for enhanced support operations.

What are the different types of dashboards available in Zoho Desk?

Zoho Desk offers several pre-built Standard Dashboards categorized as:

  1. Popular Dashboards: Display commonly used metrics like ticket status, average handling time, and blueprint progress.

  2. Public Dashboards: Accessible to all users, showing data like accounts by industry and requests by priority.

  3. Telephony Dashboards: Provide call metrics for both inbound and outbound calls, available upon integrating telephony.

  4. Time Based Dashboards: Focus on time-sensitive metrics, including first response time, resolution time, and response time trends.

  5. Overview Dashboards: Offer a comprehensive view of the ticketing process, including open, on-hold, and overdue tickets.

  6. Customer Happiness Dashboards: Track customer feedback, happiness ratings, and agent-specific ratings.

  7. Zia Dashboards: Utilize Zia, Zoho's AI, to present insights on response trends, auto-tagging, sentiment analysis, and more.

  8. Global Dashboards: Available in the all-department view, displaying ticket distribution, channel usage, and agent performance across departments.

Can I create my own custom dashboards?
Yes, in addition to the pre-built dashboards, paid editions of Zoho Desk allow you to create custom dashboards. These can be tailored to your specific needs by adding components that showcase the data most relevant to your team. You can add up to 10 components to a custom dashboard.
What types of components can I add to a custom dashboard?

Custom dashboards offer flexibility with components like:

  • Reports: Include summary and matrix reports from modules like Tickets, Knowledge Base, and Products, displaying metrics like overdue tickets and call counts.

  • Gallery: Visualize data with charts and graphs, showcasing trends and comparisons over time. Options include bar, pie, line, funnel, and table views for tickets, tasks, knowledge base articles, and more.

  • Custom Views: Integrate predefined and custom list views from modules like Tickets, Contacts, Accounts, and Tasks for quick access to specific data sets.

  • Embeds: Embed tables, reports, and dashboards from Zoho Analytics for real-time data updates, requiring Zoho Analytics integration.

Can I organize dashboards into folders?

Yes, you can create both public and private dashboard folders to categorize and manage access. Public folders are visible to all agents, while private folders can be restricted to specific users.

What actions can I perform on dashboards and their components?

You can interact with dashboards by:

  • Exporting data as Excel or CSV files.

  • Printing dashboards or individual components.

  • Setting a dashboard as the default view for the entire organization.

  • Editing or deleting custom dashboards and their components.

  • Refreshing components to display the latest data.

  • Zooming or resizing components for better visibility.

Are dashboard properties customizable?

Currently, dashboard properties like color, gradient, borders, and background cannot be modified through the user interface.

What are the main advantages of using dashboards in Zoho Desk?

Dashboards provide a real-time view of key business metrics, allowing for quick decision-making and identification of trends in ticket data, channels, and customer happiness ratings.


What are the limitations of standard dashboards in Zoho Desk?

Standard dashboards are pre-built and cannot be deleted, edited, or have new components added to them.


Which user roles have access to create and manage custom dashboards?

Support admins and agents with "Profile permission for managing Reports and Dashboards" can create and manage custom dashboards.


Explain the difference between a "Report" component and a "Gallery" component.

A "Report" component displays data directly from reports, while a "Gallery" component offers various chart formats to visualize data.


Briefly describe three examples of data visualizations available within a "Gallery" component.

Examples of visualizations within a "Gallery" include bar graphs to compare values across categories, pie charts to show proportions of a whole, and line graphs to track trends over time.


What is the purpose of a "Custom View" component in a dashboard?

A "Custom View" component displays pre-defined or user-created lists of data from modules like Tickets, Contacts, Accounts, and Tasks.


How can data from Zoho Analytics be incorporated into a Zoho Desk dashboard?

Data from Zoho Analytics can be embedded into a Zoho Desk dashboard using the "Embed" component, providing real-time updates.


Explain the concept of "Dashboard Folders" and their role in organizing dashboards.

Dashboard Folders are used to categorize and manage dashboards. They can be public (accessible to all agents) or private (accessible only to designated users).


List three actions that users can perform on dashboard components to enhance data visibility and analysis.

Users can refresh components for updated data, zoom in/out for better visibility, and resize components to adjust their display within the dashboard.