Highlights are the row of key numbers above the table, and they are what the chart plots. They appear on the Dashboard, in reports, and in the logs.
Each Highlight is one metric, summed over whatever you are currently looking at. They follow the date range, the filters, the result type filter, and the reporting time basis, so the number above the table always matches the table itself.
Default metrics
A new workspace starts with six:
- Clicks
- Leads
- Transactions
- Costs
- Revenues
- Profit
Any performance metric can be used as a Highlight, including the per lead, per click, and per transaction metrics such as EPL, CPC, and ACV. See Advanced columns for what each one means.
How Highlights behave
The behaviour differs depending on what the report is built around.
Reports over time
In reports that show data by date, such as the Performance report, each Highlight is the sum of that metric for the selected period.
- Every Highlight has its own colour, and each active one is a line in the chart.
- Clicking an active Highlight switches it off. Clicking an inactive one switches it on.
- Several Highlights can be active at once.
Reports by entity
In reports built around entities, such as offers or affiliates, the chart shows one Highlight at a time, plotted across the top 10 rows. Showing every Highlight for every row would mean dozens of lines.
- The colour belongs to the row, not to the Highlight.
- Clicking an inactive Highlight activates it and deactivates the previous one.
- The table is sorted by the active Highlight, highest first.
- To see several Highlights for a single row, first clear the row selection with the checkbox icon. See Show rows in chart.
Editing Highlights
Highlights are edited from the Dashboard, and the set you choose applies everywhere they appear.
- Add a Highlight: click Edit Overview to enter edit mode. The button then reads Add, since you are already editing.
- Remove a Highlight: hover over it, click the trash icon, and confirm.
In edit mode the Highlights are marked in the same edit style used elsewhere in PalDock.
There is no way to change what an existing Highlight shows. To swap one metric for another, remove the one you do not want and add the one you do.
