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Pega Sales Automation dashboard customization
Sales Automation dashboard customization
The first thing you see when you log into the Sales Automation application is your dashboard.
Pega Sales Automation provides a default dashboard configuration for each role type: Sales Operations, Sales Manager, or Sales Representative. Sales operations can customize the default dashboard layout for the sales manager or sales representative. A sales manager or sales representative can also perform further customization on their own dashboard.
Customizing the Pega Sales Automation dashboard
Before performing dashboard customization, you must do one of the following:
After opening the dashboard editor:
Open the dashboard template
In the Pega Sales Automation application, you must be logged into a Sales Operations user role to customize the default sales manager and sales representative dashboard templates. From the Tools menu, select either of the following:
- Personalize Mgr Dashboard
- Personalize Rep Dashboard
Once the dashboard template is open, perform steps shown in the Perform dashboard customization section.
Open an operator's dashboard
To customize your dashboard from a Sales Manager or Sales Representative user role, first click the edit mode icon.
Once the dashboard editor is open, perform steps shown in the Perform dashboard customization section.
Perform dashboard customization
Dashboard terminology
A dashboard is a part of the user interface that contains one or more widgets grouped into slots arranged within a template. A template is an arrangement of slots. Each slot can have multiple (or no) widgets assigned to it.
The following diagram illustrates a two-column dashboard. Dotted lines represent the slots, and multicolored shapes represent widgets.
Sales Automation templates
Pega Sales Automation recommends the use of the SFA Two Column template. Other templates available from the Pega platform are shown below.
Sales Automation widgets
In addition to the widgets provided with the Pega platform, Pega Sales Automation provides 13 custom widgets.
Customize the dashboard
To customize the dashboard, refer to the PDN article Personalizing your dashboard.
Demonstration video
This video provides a demonstration of using and customizing the Pega Sales Automation dashboard.
Next steps
You can now successfully customize the sales manager and sales representative dashboard templates, or personalize a sales manager or sales representative's dashboard. From here, you can obtain additional information about: