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Category: Insights Dashboards

Add a PSQuery to Insights Data Tables
Insights Dashboards

Add a PSQuery to Insights Data Tables

Randall Gronckiby Randall GronckiSeptember 28, 2025January 4, 2026

Insight Data Table real estate can be a problem. Too many columns and they get pushed together with data and labels truncated and offset.
And it crashes.

The users always want more, but it’s not pretty.

But we do have a solution: put a PSQuery link in the data grid that is big as they want and will show whatever data you choose

Use Insights Dashboards in Navigation Collections
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Use Insights Dashboards in Navigation Collections

Randall Gronckiby Randall GronckiJuly 28, 2025January 4, 2026

Use a PeopleSoft Fluid Navigation Collection to organize multiple Insights Dashboards

PeopleTools 8.62 Released
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PeopleTools 8.62 Released

Randall Gronckiby Randall GronckiApril 24, 2025April 24, 2025

PeopleTools 8.62 release announcement.

Add Insights Dashboards to Fluid Pages
Insights Dashboards

Add Insights Dashboards to Fluid Pages

Randall Gronckiby Randall GronckiFebruary 19, 2025February 19, 2025

Beginning with PeopleTools 8.61, we can embed Insights dashboards in Fluid pages.  Meet the users where they are in their workflow and provide an Insights dashboard on the page next to their data.

Combine fields for Insights Dashboards
Insights Dashboards

Combine fields for Insights Dashboards

Randall Gronckiby Randall GronckiDecember 9, 2024December 10, 2024

Add Scripted Fields to Insights Index Patterns to manipulate data to create more meaningful visualizations for our users.

Format Numbers in Insights Dashboards
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Format Numbers in Insights Dashboards

Randall Gronckiby Randall GronckiNovember 24, 2024November 24, 2024

The Insights default number format can clutter charts with excessive precision.
What if you want just to show one, or maybe no decimals in your chart?

Refresh Insights Index Patterns
Insights Dashboards

Refresh Insights Index Patterns

Randall Gronckiby Randall GronckiNovember 16, 2024November 16, 2024

Deleting and recreating your Insights Index Patterns removes all formatting and formulas. There also is a good chance to break all your visualizations using that Index Pattern.
Instead, refresh your Insights Index Patterns

Add URLs to Insights Dashboards
Insights Dashboards

Add URLs to Insights Dashboards

Randall Gronckiby Randall GronckiNovember 1, 2024November 2, 2024

Every Insights dataset from PeopleSoft has a Drilling URL.  
Use that URL in your Insights Dashboards to link the user back to PeopleSoft pages.

Are you missing data in your Insights Dashboards?
Insights Dashboards / PeopleTools

Are you missing data in your Insights Dashboards?

Randall Gronckiby Randall GronckiOctober 31, 2024October 31, 2024

Insights (Kibana) Dashboards provide valuable information to your users … but it only works if ALL the data you think you are sending to Insights has actually arrived …and has been indexed. 

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