Schedule, download, and manage reports in the Report Builder

The Report Builder provides powerful insights into your team’s performance and content engagement, enabling you to align your sales and marketing strategies with tangible data. After creating a custom report, you can manage it, download the data, and set up automatic exports to share with stakeholders both within and outside your organization.

The reports you build are personalized to your account, but you can download them and schedule exports to share with other stakeholders.

See how it looks

Key features

• Export reports as CSV or Excel files, and download charts as PNGs
• Schedule reports to be delivered to you, your team, or any stakeholders automatically
• Edit, duplicate, re-generate, and delete existing reports

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The quick way

1. Review the list of reports.
2. Download, edit, re-generate, and delete existing reports.
3. Schedule exported report updates.

Do this step by step

1. Access the Report Builder by navigating to the Analytics tab in the Admin App and selecting Reports from the left-side menu. The page defaults to the My Reports tab.

Review the list of reports

The Reports page is organized into tabs to help you manage your analytics:

• Templates: Use pre-built templates from Showpad to get started quickly. 
• My Reports: The default view displaying all your saved custom reports.

On the My Reports tab, sort and view all your saved reports to see their chart type, status, and last update time. The report list provides an overview of all your saved reports and includes the following columns:

• Sort: Click a column header to sort by Report name, Creation date, Last updated, or Last generated.
• Details: To view report details, click the expand arrow next to a report to see:
  • The report type
  • All filters applied
  • The data fields included in the report

Manage existing reports

Take action on your saved reports. From the reports list, click the three dot menu next to any report to access the following actions:

• Download XLSX: Export the report in Excel format.

• Download CSV: Export the report in a universally supported format.

  Note: Reports are available for download for 30 days. After this period, you must regenerate the report to download it again.

• Edit: Open the Report Builder to modify the report's elements, filters, or chart type.
• Rename: Update the name of the report and click Save.
• Duplicate: Create a copy of the report with "Copy of" prepended to the name. This is useful for creating a new report from an existing template.
• Schedule: Email recurring report updates to selected recipients. Becomes Edit schedule after the schedule has been set. Learn more about scheduling exported reports.
• Re-generate: Manually run the report to get the most recent data.
• Delete: Permanently remove the report. Confirm on the pop-up.

Schedule updated report exports

Set up an Email to regularly update you and your internal and external recipients on the latest versions of the report.

1. In the reports list, click the three dot menu next to the report you want to schedule, then select Schedule.

2. Under Frequency, select the interval at which you would like the report to be sent. You can choose Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or an Exact date. Reference the following table for details on each option:

   Frequency	Settings
   Daily	Time zone Time AM/PM
   Weekly	Day of the week Time zone Time AM/PM
   Monthly	Relative monthly date: First day of the month Last day of the month A day Time zone Time AM/PM
   Exact date	Calendar-specific date Time zone Time AM/PM

3. Enter the email addresses of the Recipients. They can be internal or external recipients. Your email address is already listed.
4. Select the report Export type, either XLSX or CSV. If the saved report is a chart, the data will be exported as a table. The chart image will not be included.
5. Click Schedule.