Dashboard Parameter Limitations
Hello! I am a huge fan of Wrike, especially the new dashboards. I was thrilled to see the announcement of Dashboard parameters, which appeared to be a feature I've been waiting for years. Alas, the feature is too limited to actually be of use for my company. We use a custom field to keep track of the project ID associated with all work (tasks, projects, etc). It would be incredibly useful to be able to filter a dashboard by the project ID, but that is not possible with the current parameters limitations. Dashboard parameters would be a game changer feature for my company if we could use them to filter by text field. I hope that this is a feature that is considered in the future!
Sam, thank you for your feedback and we are planning further improvements to the parameters in the near future.
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Please allow me to echo this need! I would love to be able filter my dashboard by 1) Space 2) Task/Project Priority. I use dashboards to pull together data from across multiple spaces (using the "Entire Account" location) so this would be huge. (the current UI for parameters is also a little clunky).
Do you have any updates or a roadmap you can share?
Need date-based parameters added as well so we can see things "going live", closing, or completed within date-based ranges (this year, last year, this quarter, last quarter, etc etc).
Teddy and Amy, thank you for your feedback! Can you please share the use cases you need parameterization by space, priority or dates for?
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Hi Vladimir Bugay, As I said in my comment, we need to be able to filter all widgets in a dashboard to see things like what is "going live" (based on a custom field we use for go live date), or what is expected to close (Based on finish date), or what projects/tasks were completed (based on completed date) within a date range parameter. Having to manually filter every single widget individually and/or create multiple versions of our dashboards to be able to achieve this is cumbersome (especially since the Tools section can't be organized into folders), and it's just not logical that if we have these as widget filters we shouldn't also have them as dashboard parameters.
Vladimir Bugay Thanks for the opportunity to weigh in. Totally agree with Amy Augustyniak. Here are my thoughts:
Ultimately, the parameters seem to hold tons of promise: build one dashboard sourced from everywhere for my purposes, but then have a series of filters along the top that allows my team to make the dashboard helpful to them with just a few clicks (ie - show my tasks/projects, related to brand A, that are high priority).
We ran a PowerBI dashboard a few years ago, and it had this ability. Here's how filters (parameters) work on PowerBI. From top-to-bottom, you can see that you can apply filters (parameters) at the visual (widget) level, the page (section) level, or the all pages (dashboard) level:
Teddy, we have just released an update that enables parameterization by location. The main use case for it is switching between projects but you can use it equally well for switching between spaces. Please give it a try and let us know how does it work for you.
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