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Reports

Live reports and snapshots built from report templates, and what they show.

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A report is a page of widgets, such as scores, charts and tables, laid out by a report template and pointed at something to cover, its context: one website, a set of websites, or the whole account.

There are two kinds, told apart by isLive:

  • Live reports (isLive: true), which Silktide calls dashboards, are built afresh every time you read them, over a length of time counted back from now. If what they cover is removed, such as a website that is deleted, they can no longer show it.
  • Snapshots (isLive: false) are built once, when they are created, over fixed dates, and never change. They keep working when what they cover is removed.

Create a report from a template, then read its results. To make a snapshot on a regular interval and email it to people, use a report schedule.

Each report records who created it, as an assignee, and has its own permissions: who may see it and who may admin it.