This page outlines best practices to be used for emailing reports from the Analytics Portal.
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Why do I need to do this? Viewer filters are stored to the user, and emailed dashboards will take these filters into consideration upon email execution. This can easily cause confusion for VIewers Viewers who are unclear about this functionality. When you have many viewers who are individually interacting with an Emailed Dashboard, each Viewer is creating a custom instance of an email request. When too many individual emails are requested at the same time, some of them may timeout.
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Each Widget in a Dashboard performs seperate separate Queries against your database. The recommended limit for widgets per emailed dashboard is 12.
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PDF can be optimally resized and redesigned by clicking “Edit/View PDF Report”
Toggle to “Edit Mode” to manually edit the size of widgets in the PDF:
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