Earlier this year, Esri Labs released the Activity Dashboard for ArcGIS – a new, free web application available to all organizations from the ArcGIS Marketplace. In our initial blog post we announced the application and shared its design goal of providing platform administrator’s a series of useful reports about their organization’s mapping platform.
We asked for your feedback and we heard many requests to add more platform usage and credit utilization information to the activity reports. You asked for simple consolidated reports related to platform usage that includes content creation, collaboration, usage volume and credit utilization at the item and named user level where available. Last night, Esri Labs released the July update of the Activity Dashboard for ArcGIS, and it contains many of the new reports, features and enhancements you have asked for.
New Activity Reports
Several new activity reports addressing details about usage and credit utilization are available with this update. On the Items tab, credit utilization is reported at the organization level with drill-down capability to view user level usage and credit utilization.
On the Users tab, an ordered list of users by credit use is available and is linked to the reports below it. So tapping on a username in the ordered list of users by credit use will generate more detailed platform utilization information for the selected named user. You can also optionally use the filtered search drop down box in the user profile report to search for or pick a named user’s full name to generate more detailed platform utilization information for the selected user.
Improved User Experience
This update also provides several subtle, yet important, improvements to the user experience and interface design of the application — many of these are based on your feedback. We encourage you to continue to use the in-app feedback mechanism in the footer to continue letting us know how we can improve the Activity Dashboard for ArcGIS.
Get It Now
For the many organizations that are already using the Activity Dashboard for ArcGIS, we thank you for your continued use and feedback and want you to know that you will automatically see these updates the next time you log into the application. For those organizations that haven’t yet provisioned this free JavaScript application, we encourage you to visit the ArcGIS Marketplace today to add Activity Dashboard for ArcGIS to your organization and discover new insights into your online mapping platform.
Also…
Did you know that you can enable a named user to view the Activity Dashboard for ArcGIS application without making them a full organization administrator? In an upcoming blog post, we’ll provide details on using the new custom roles in ArcGIS to enable this capability. Stay tuned! If you can’t wait, come talk to us in the ArcGIS Online Showcase at the Esri User Conference and we’ll show you how!
