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The built-in Analytics pages answer common questions — consumption trends, cost breakdowns, site rankings. Custom dashboards let you go further and assemble your own view: choose the numbers, charts, filters, and time windows that matter to you, arrange them on a grid, and save the result to return to any time.

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Where to find them

Open Analytics > Dashboards to see your dashboards. From here you can:
  • Browse existing dashboards, filter the list, and search
  • Create a new dashboard from scratch
  • Open any dashboard to view it, or open one you created to edit it

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How a dashboard is built

A dashboard is a grid of widgets. Each widget is one self-contained chart or number — it has its own data, its own filters, and its own time window. Because every widget is independent, one dashboard can compare different sites, commodities, or periods side by side without forcing everything onto the same settings. You add widgets one at a time, then drag and resize them on the grid to arrange the layout. A dashboard can hold up to 24 widgets.

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Widget types

When you add a widget, you first choose how the result should be displayed:

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Building a widget

After choosing a type, a short guided flow walks you through the rest:
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Choose a visualization

Pick whether the widget is a trend, bar chart, metric, or top list.
2

Pick a measure

Choose what the widget measures — for example, usage (consumption), cost, or a count of data quality findings (anomalies and bill issues). You can also build a simple ratio, such as usage divided by floor area, to show intensity.
3

Set the breakdown

Decide how the data is split — by site, account, or meter, and (for trends) which time bucket to use: month, quarter, or year.
4

Scope the data

Narrow the widget to exactly what you want. Add filters (by site, account, meter, connection, provider, commodity, or finding type) and set the time window — a fixed date range, a rolling window like the last 12 months, or a preset.
5

Name it

Give the widget a title. Nectar suggests one based on your settings, and you can edit it anytime.
Every widget stays true to Nectar’s methodology — the same calendarization, unit, and cost rules that power the built-in analytics also power your custom widgets. See Methodology for how bill data becomes monthly values.

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Sharing a dashboard

Dashboards you create start out private to you. You control who else can see them:
  • Keep it private — only you can see it.
  • Share with your company — everyone in your company who can view analytics sees it in the dashboards list. Only you, the creator, can edit or delete it; everyone else gets a read-only view.
  • Create a public link — generate a link that anyone can open in a browser, with no Nectar login required. This is handy for sharing a snapshot with someone outside your team. The public view is read-only and shows live data. You can regenerate the link (which invalidates the old one) or revoke it entirely at any time.
Only the person who created a dashboard can edit it, change its sharing, or delete it. If you need changes to a dashboard someone else created, ask them, or copy the idea into a new dashboard of your own.

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Building a dashboard with the assistant

If you’d rather describe what you want than build it by hand, ask Nectar’s assistant. Tell it something like “show me electricity cost by site for the last year” and it drafts a dashboard for you to review. Once you approve it, the dashboard opens in the editor as a normal, editable dashboard — so you can keep refining it just as if you’d built it yourself. The assistant only builds the dashboard’s content. Sharing and publishing stay with you in the dashboards interface.
  • Analytics overview — the built-in commodity dashboards and quick-access views
  • EUI & intensity — the built-in view for energy use per square foot
  • Data Export — download the data behind any chart
  • Data Quality — investigate the anomalies and issues you can surface as findings
  • Methodology — how bill data is calendarized into the monthly values your widgets use
See also: Glossary — Custom dashboard, Glossary — Widget

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FAQ

The home dashboard (the screen you see when you log in) is a fixed overview of stats, issues, and recent bills across your whole organization. A custom dashboard is one you design yourself under Analytics > Dashboards, choosing exactly which numbers, charts, and filters appear.
A saved view remembers a set of filters on an existing analytics page. A custom dashboard is a brand-new layout you build from scratch, combining several independent widgets — each with its own measure, filters, and time window — onto one grid.
Yes. Every widget carries its own time window, so you can put a “last 12 months” trend next to a “this year to date” ranking on the same dashboard.
Usage (consumption), cost, and counts of data quality findings (anomalies and bill issues). You can also build a simple ratio — for example, usage divided by floor area — to show an intensity metric.
No. Only the creator can edit, delete, or change a dashboard’s sharing. Company members and anyone with a public link see a read-only view.