Product updates

Timespan filters

We’ve made it easier to track performance throughout a business cycle by improving timespan options on certain integrations. You can now display data for the current calendar quarter or year-to-date, and also compare performance to the previous period on the following integrations:

• Freshdesk
• Google Analytics
• Pipedrive
• HubSpot (Beta)
• Facebook Ads (Beta)

This update opens up a range of possibilities that make your dashboards even more useful for communicating progress:

• Visualize performance against a quarterly sales target
• Show customer support performance for the year-to-date
• Compare the current quarter to the same quarter last year (ideal for businesses affected by seasonality)
• Compare today’s performance to the same day last week
• Compare the current month’s performance to the same month last year

Access these new filters simply by adding or editing a widget powered by one of the integrations above.

Google Analytics integration

We’ve rebuilt our Google Analytics integration from the ground up to make visualizing data from your Google Analytics account easier than ever before. Here’s a rundown of what’s included in this update:

• Build and edit Google Analytics widgets faster with a brand new interface that allows you to configure your widgets from your dashboard, and easily switch between GA accounts and views
• Quickly visualize popular metrics from Google Analytics across seven different visualizations, using a range of one-click presets
• Access all your metrics from Google Analytics, including custom metrics and goals, as well as GA-enabled metrics for AdWords, AdSense, Ad Exchange, DoubleClick Campaign Manager, DoubleClick for Publishers, DoubleClick Bid Manager and DoubleClick Search
• Improved comparison visualizations
• Improved filtering options, including the ability to add multiple filters and use custom strings
• Add goals and status indicators to highlight when a metric hits a certain range
• Smarter widget updates for improved reliability on accounts with many Google Analytics widgets

Try the new integration out by logging in and adding Google Analytics widget - we’d love to know what you think!

Agent availability metrics in Zendesk Talk

We’ve added a few more metrics to our Zendesk Talk integration to make your dashboards even better at highlighting when your team is over or under resourced.

Add a Zendesk Talk number widget, and you’ll now have the option to show how many agents are available, on call or who are on wrap up, which you can then filter by group.

Log in to try it out for yourself, or learn more about the integration here.

Intercom integration

We’ve launched some big improvements to our Intercom integration! Our overhauled integration makes it easier than ever for support teams using Intercom to keep track of their progress, stay motivated, and react quickly to problems by displaying the metrics that matter on a big screen.

Connect your Intercom account to Geckoboard and you’ll now be able to visualize the following metrics:

• First response time
• Time to close
• New conversations
• Number of users
• Number of companies
• Number of leads

Depending on the metric, you can now also filter by assignee, state, segment and tags to make your visualizations even more relevant to your team.

For more information on how the integration works, check out our support docs!

SQL databases integration

Getting important numbers out of a database and in front of your team can be a pain, especially if those numbers update frequently. That’s why we’re excited to launch our new [SQL databases integration](https://www.geckoboard.com/product/data-sources/sql-database-dashboards/ for MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redshift databases, available today on Team and Company plans!

With your visualizations set up, we’ve made it so you’ll never need to go in and edit them again (unless you want to of course). Your visualizations will refresh automatically in the background to show up-to-date data without you needing to do anything. We’ve even given you control over how frequently they fetch new data.

For more information on how it works, check out our documentation, or give it a spin yourself!

Edit from dashboard

To make building dashboards even quicker you can now set up and edit your widgets without leaving your dashboard. Set status indicators, tweak number formatting and, (for some integrations) configure metrics themselves right from the dashboard itself!

In-app help

We’ve just added the ability to browse our wide range of help articles from within Geckoboard. Click the ‘Help’ button in the top right, and you’ll now be able to search for a topic and get the answers you need faster!

Can’t find what you’re looking for? Our brilliant support team are on hand at the click of the ‘Talk to us’ button!

Geckoboard mobile experience

When you’re away from your desk your business doesn’t stop. So today we’re thrilled to announce a new mobile experience that makes accessing smartphone-friendly dashboards a breeze no matter where you are and what device you’re using!

We want mobile dashboards to be awesome for everyone, and whilst our old iOS app went some way towards making this possible, keeping it updated with all the new features we’ve been releasing has been tough (plus we’ve always felt it kind of sucked that we didn’t support other mobile operating systems).

Well, today that changes.

Whether you’re using Android, iOS, Windows 10 or any other mobile OS we’re happy to say you can now access mobile-friendly dashboards that support all our visualizations, goals and status indicators directly from your smartphone’s home screen.

##Access through your browser and as an app

Our new mobile experience is what our developers like to call a “Progressive Web App”. Don’t worry if that means nothing to you - what will mean something to you is you can now load mobile-friendly dashboards on your device of choice simply by logging into Geckoboard in your mobile browser.

Once logged in, you’ll be able to browse all the dashboards on your account in all their glory, with all your widgets, goals, and status indicators intact.

Missing the panache of loading your dashboards directly from the home screen of your phone? You can save Geckoboard to your phone as if it were an app using these simple instructions for Android and iOS.

##What does this mean for the iOS app?

We will no longer be actively developing our native iOS app and we strongly recommend replacing the Geckoboard iOS app using the tutorial linked above to take advantage of all the good things we’re constantly releasing.

Avoid catastrophe with Warnings

Seeing your numbers up on a TV screen is the easiest way to keep an eye on what’s going on, but every once in a while there are moments when a team really need to pay attention to a particular number that’s not performing as well as you’d like.

Maybe marketing are coming close to exceeding their budget for a specific online ad campaign. Perhaps your support team’s response times are slow and putting you in danger of breaching your SLAs. Or possibly your sales team are underperforming in a particular area that urgently needs extra effort to avoid harming their pipeline of opportunities.

Whatever your ‘worst-case scenario’ might be, you can can now easily alert your team to poorly-performing numbers on your dashboard using Warnings.

Unlike Goals, which subtly highlight when a target has been met, Warnings make problematic metrics unmissable by turning the whole widget red when a specific value is reached.

Warnings can be added to any number widget on your dashboards. Simply click the three dots in the top right of a number widget and then Add warning to set a warning to trigger at a specific value.

Geckoboard Lite (beta)

Although Geckoboard is designed to be displayed on large screens and TVs, not everyone has the necessary hardware to use our screens feature in all its glory.

Often it makes sense to start displaying a dashboard using whatever devices you have already, such as the browser on a Smart TV, an old unused laptop or a Raspberry Pi, before investing in any more hardware. But occasionally these devices will display errors or crash as they don’t fully support the modern web technologies that make our dashboards look and feel so good.

That’s why we’re launching a beta of a new feature we’re calling Geckoboard Lite that brings the awesomeness of our dashboards to a whole new range of underpowered, under-supported devices.

If you’re looking to display your dashboard on a device or browser that doesn’t quite meet our recommended specs, you can now choose to activate Geckoboard Lite to reduce the chances of your dashboards looking less than perfect.

Simply click ‘Screens’ at the top of your account and toggle Geckoboard Lite on:

Once enabled, if we detect your browser isn’t powerful enough then we’ll send an easier-to-display version, otherwise the “standard” version of your dashboard will be displayed as normal.

What’s the difference? Aside from better performance, it’s unlikely you’ll see anything different, although some visualisations and advanced customisations aren’t supported in the beta quite yet.