Asking analytics a question
Type the question; read the chips that say which report actually ran.
Analytics takes a question in words and turns it into a report — which data, grouped how, counting what. The answer arrives with the report it ran described beside it.
Read the chips
The chips under an answer describe the report that actually ran, not the question you asked. Remove one to run it again without that part. Anything your question named that no report can count is listed rather than quietly dropped — an answer that silently ignored half the question is worse than no answer.
Bound to what you may read
Every query is bound to your account in the database rather than filtered on the screen, and a measure your role does not hold is absent from the result rather than blanked out in it. The difference matters: blanking tells you a number exists and is being withheld.
Set as default makes a page the one Analytics opens on for you, on any device. The overview stays one click away from the breadcrumb on every analytics page.
Frequently asked
Why did my question come back partly answered?
Because part of it named something no report can count. What ran is listed in the chips and what could not is named, so you can rephrase rather than guess.
Can two people get different answers to the same question?
Yes, and that is correct: each query is bound to what that person may read. Nobody sees another customer's records, whatever they type.
Does the funnel end at an accepted offer?
No — at a start. An offer accepted and never started is not a placement, and counting it as one flatters every number downstream.
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