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Saving Dashboard Data Edits

Attention: This page contains information relevant to all kinds of dashboards in Qualtrics, including CX and EX dashboards.

About Saving Dashboard Data Edits

Most changes to fields, like adding or deleting a field or changing a field’s type, will cause the dashboard’s data to reindex. Reindexing is when the dataset is rebuilt to fit the changes you’ve made. It may take minutes to hours, depending on the size of your dataset.

Dashboard viewers can continue to access the previous version of the dashboard during indexing, instead of seeing partial data. Dashboard viewers will see new data when reindexing is complete. Dashboard editors will have a banner showing reindexing progress and have the option to see partial data as it comes in. This means you don’t have to wait for weekends and off hours to update dashboards, or worry about negatively impacting daily work that involves these dashboards when you push an update during work hours.

Qtip: For EX dashboards, updating responses with current metadata and updating invited counts will not cause the dashboard to reindex. Instead, dashboard viewers will see applicable changes in real time as these jobs run, including appropriate error messages in the response rate widget while the update invited counts job runs.

Qtip: Sometimes, Text iQ will require dataset rebuilds. These dataset reindexes will prevent access to Text iQ, but the rest of the dashboard data will still be available to viewers. The dashboard data will not begin reindexing.

Important Considerations for Project Administrators and Dashboard Editors

As a dashboard editor, you can edit the fields of the dashboard’s data source in the Dashboard Data page of the dashboard’s settings:

When editing the dashboard data, it’s best to make all necessary changes before clicking Save. If you save multiple times, it’ll submit multiple dataset reindexes, which may slow down the process.

Once you’ve completed all your changes, click Save. You’ll then see a modal that says the dashboard data will reindex. While reindexing occurs, the currently published version of the data will still be available for dashboard viewers.

After navigating back to the dashboard, you’ll see the latest progress on the data being reindexed, meaning some widgets will display partial data. However, dashboard viewers will not see partial data. They will continue to see the last published dataset until your changes are finished reindexing.

Viewing the Published Version as a Dashboard Editor

After data starts reindexing, a banner will show up with the percentage of completion for the reindexing process. You can click the link in the banner to view the currently published version of the dashboard, which is what dashboard viewers see.

Qtip: Viewing the published version as a dashboard editor will show what dashboard viewers see, which excludes private pages.

Important Considerations for Dashboard Viewers

Dashboard viewers will continue to be able to use the dashboard without any downtime while data is reindexing.

Qtip: While the dashboard is reindexing, any new data that’s collected (i.e., new survey responses) won’t be added to the dashboard. New data will only be added after the dashboard is finished reindexing.

Qtip: For EX dashboards, you can prevent dashboard viewers from interacting with the dashboard during reindexing by using the maintenance mode setting.

If dashboard viewers are still viewing the previously published version of the dataset when reindexing is finished, a banner will appear and let them refresh the page to view the latest version of the data.

Maintenance Mode for EX Dashboards

Qtip: This option only applies to EX dashboards, such as dashboards in Engagement, Pulse, Lifecycle, and other Employee Experience projects.

Rather than giving dashboard viewers access to the previous data, you can instead make the dashboard data inaccessible to dashboard viewers during reindexing.

To do so, enable dashboard maintenance mode. If you are a dashboard editor, you will see the dashboard and be able to make edits, but dashboard viewers with no editing access will only see the message.