Ubidots
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Widgets Meet Reports
We’ve changed the way our Reports module looks and, in the process, added a feature that allows you to create widgets from scratch in your report, resulting in more control and flexibility. For now, the available widgets in Reports are these:
- Image: Add images that enhance your report, either by improving its look (with your company’s logo, for example) or by contributing to its content.
- Text: The text widget will give you more control over its appearance, allowing you to add background images or colors to it.
- Clock: Display the time and date in your reports with the style that best suits your needs.
Our Reports Got Better
Our reporting module allows you to take snapshots of widgets to include them in the PDF or Excel file you want to generate. It’s a good way to bolster your reports by making them even more graphic and, thus, easier to understand.
We've heard you! We improved the snapshot tool by increasing how customizable it is. On one hand, you can pick the widgets of any device in a dynamic dashboard. On the other, the size of the widget in the report can now be changed so that it ends up looking just like you need it.
Spreading the reporting love
Reports for End Users
Ubidots Reports allow you to create detailed and customized documents with the data you need over a specific time frame, and in different file formats (XLS/PDF) — plus, its mailing can be programmed and automated.
Until now, reports could only be created and managed by the Admin of the Ubidots account, but it's now possible to grant End Users permission to see, create, edit or delete them.
This is especially useful to avoid long iterations between you and your customers while fine-tuning a report. This feature is now available to all Industrial plan holders and above.
📝 Discover our all-new reporting engine
During the past few quarters, our Analytics team has been busy re-writing our entire reporting module from scratch, and today we're pleased to announce it:
We took all of the "Scheduled Reporting" features you already knew, and baked them into our "Data Explorer" module. The result? A new interface to build and preview more powerful reports for you and your clients.
You can now find the new reporting tool under "Data" --> "Analytics" --> "Reports", along with any Scheduled Report you had previously created:
Key features
- A new interface to schedule the automated XLS/PDF reports you already love.
- Live preview: Build your report at one click, just as it will be rendered and sent to your clients.
- Rich date-picker: A new UI with simpler date navigation, including "Start date + Span", "From -> To", or any of our existing quick date ranges.
- New sections: Add custom titles and paragraphs, and more section types to come.
- Save multiple Reports: Previously called "Experiments", every Data Explorer analysis was only saved in the local storage of your browser, which meant you could only keep one "Experiment" per session. Now, you can save them as "Reports" for future analysis.