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Overview of Data Exports and Report Charts

The new Reports experience empowers users in the enterprise and business tiers of service to build, save, and manage their own custom reports and data exports in a personalized view.

Reports are templates that return one or more graphs with a summary of the agreement data as defined by the user. The number and type of reports available to the user are dictated by the user's authority level in the system and the permission scope applied to their userID.

Data exports provide a method for users to extract specific field data from the agreements within their authority scope. Users can apply filters to focus the returned data set by user, group, workflow, or agreement name.

Within the set of agreements filtered, the user can define the individual fields to be exported into a CSV file, decluttering the export from any transactional data they don't need.

Example data export

Report types include:

  • Agreements (All users) - Agreement reports return the metrics for agreement activity, such as completion rates,  time to complete, workflow usage, volume trends, and sender/group trends. There are eleven Agreement charts.
  • Transaction consumption (All users) - Returns the transaction volume through the system by user, group, workflow, or overall volume trend. There are four Transaction Consumption charts.
  • Users (In development) - User reports focus on the user metrics such as users/groups created, user/group growth trends, and user activity. There are six planned User charts.
  • Settings Activity Audit (Admins only) - Administrators have access to run a special report that returns the settings level activity for their users, group, or the whole of the account, depending on the authority level of the administrator.
Note:

The Users report type is included in this documentation for awareness, but is currently under development and not available in the current release.

Once logged in, select Reports in the top menu of the home screen.

The default dashboard (Overview)

When the new Reports experience is first opened, the default dashboard is loaded.

The dashboard automatically loads an overview of the agreement traffic from the previous seven days containing a summary at the top, and three charts displaying the percentage of agreements completed, the total agreement volume trend, and the average time for an agreement to complete.

Default landing page with the four areas of interest numbered

Filtering for Exports and Reports

Most accounts generate enough volume to require limiting the agreement dataset to return only the values for a select time frame, event, or workstream.

Both exports and reports use the same primary filtering system to limit the number of agreements being included in the returned dataset.

You can limit the dataset by:

  • Date Range - Limits the returned data set to a time box based on the Creation Date of the agreement
  • Workstream filters - Limits the returned data set based on known workstream values relative to the agreement.
    • If no filter is selected, all agreements within the data range are returned.
    • Workstream filters are additive. All agreements that fit any one (or more) of the filters are included in the returned dataset.
    • The filtering categories are:
      • Sender - Filtering based on the sending users in your account
      • Workflow - Filters based on the workflow used to send the agreement
      • Agreement Name - Filter on the name of the agreements. Good for agreements from web forms and other sources that use a common agreement name
      • Group - Filtering agreements based on the group(s) they were sent from
A data export configuration showing the date and workstream filters expanded

When selected, workstream filters expose a sub-filter to allow the user to explicitly select from values within that filter type known to the user (using a multi-select drop-down list).

The user can type a string into the field to produce a list of values that match.

Multiple values can be selected.

Object sub-filters

Data Exports

Data exports are available to all users and allows for the field-level export of agreement data.

Each Export is a static download of the data available at the time the export is created. To update the data in an Export, the data must be refreshed first.

Exports can be created to retrieve data in the context of Agreements, Transaction Consumption, and User.

The field data exported is selected explicitly at the time the Export is created and can be edited at any time.

Report Charts

The availability of report charts is dependent on the user's authority level in the Acrobat Sign system.

Currently available charts:

  • Eleven Agreement charts
  • One Setting Activity Audit (available to admins only)
  • Four Transaction Consumption charts
In development:
  • Six User charts
Report Type Chart
Users Group Admins Account Admins
Agreement Agreements completed Yes Yes Yes
Agreement Average time to complete Yes Yes Yes
Agreement Agreements by workflow Yes Yes Yes
Agreement Agreement completion by workflow Yes Yes Yes
Agreement Time to complete trend Yes Yes Yes
Agreement Agreement volume trend Yes Yes Yes
Agreement Agreement completed time Yes Yes Yes
Agreement Agreements by sender No* Yes Yes
Agreement Agreement completion by sender No* Yes Yes
Agreement Agreements by group No** No** Yes
Agreement Agreement completion by group No** No** Yes
Settings Activity Audits Settings Activity Audit Log
No Yes Yes
Transaction Consumption Transaction volume trend No** No** Yes
Transaction Consumption Transactions by sender No** No** Yes
Transaction Consumption Transactions by group No** No** Yes
Transaction Consumption Transactions by workflow No** No** Yes

*These reports are enabled if the user is granted access to the data from groups they are a member of.

** These reports are enabled if the user is granted access to the data for the whole account.

Chart format

Agreement and Transaction charts are built with the same layout and functionality:

  1. The name of the saved chart is displayed at the top
  2. The filters currently applied to generate the chart as shown. All of the filters can be edited:
    • All Charts - Dictates the chart(s) displayed. One or more charts can be added, and the original can be removed.
    • Date range - The date scope for the agreements used to generate the chart can be updated.
    • Filters - Add or change the filter for Workflow, Sender, Agreement name, or Group.
  3. The numerical summary of agreements based on status.
  4. The graphical chart.
  5. Table data -  Allows access to:
    • View the chart details - A larger view of only the chart itself.
    • View data table - A table-based representation of the chart.
    • View raw data - A table listing of the individual agreements used to generate the chart.
Note:

Editing and saving an existing report does not allow the report to be renamed under the new configuration.

If you want to create a new variant of a report, Duplicate the report first, and name the duplicate in accordance with the nature of the new report.

Chart layout

Bar, Line, and Scatter graphs provide details when the pointer hovers over a chart data element.

Graph data elements

Agreement chart examples

Transaction Consumption chart examples

Settings Activity Audits

The Settings Activity Audits report is a particular type of report to allow administrators to have visibility of (and an auditable record of) any changes in settings applied to a user, group, or the account as a whole.

  • Users don't have access to the report.
  • Group-level administrators can generate reports for all groups in which they have admin authority and any user with a primary group under the admin's control.
  • Account-level administrators can review the account-level settings in addition to all of the group and user-level settings within the account.

Only one report type is available, the Settings Activity Audit Log, which produces a report containing the following:

  • The date the change was made
  • The setting that was changed
  • The old value of the setting
  • The new value of the setting
  • The target of the change (User, Group, Account)
  • The target name; the target email address is printed under the name
  • The Actor that executed the change
  • The IP address that the Actor was using when the change was executed.
Note:

The Settings Activity Audit can only return the loggable changes after July 19, 2023. This is the date the report collection started, and preexisting modifications cannot be reported.

Settings Activity Audit Log with several entries displayed

All updates to system settings at the account and group level are reported.

Updates to users are partly reported:

Reported events

Unreported events

Add or remove the authority to send agreements

Promoting or demoting an account or group-level administrator

Add or remove authority to sign agreements

Adding or removing a group membership

Add or remove authority to use electronic seals

Moving a user into or out of a group

Configure auto-delegated signer

Marking a user as Inactive

Update user to add or remove Privacy Admin authority

Deleting a user with GDPR tools

Adding an API application

All sharing activities

Assigning user authority to access report data

For the new reporting environment, user access to report data can only be configured by an account-level administrator via the Users interface in the admin menu:

  1. Navigate to the Users tab.

  2. Find/select the user you want to edit.

  3. Select Report Options from the list of actions at the top of the user list.

  4. And overlay presents the options for the user:

    • User's own data and any data from groups they are an admin for - Grants access to the user's agreements and all agreements related to the groups where the user is identified as the group administrator.
      • If the user is not a group administrator, they only have access to their own agreements.
    • User's own data and any data from groups they are a member of - Grants access to the user's agreements and all agreements related to the groups where the user is identified as a member.
    • Data for the whole account - Permits access to all agreements from all groups.
      • Required to run reports and exports for transaction consumption.
  5. Save the configuration.

    Access is updated for the user in real-time.

    Authority scopes for users

Note:

The new environment does not involve the settings found in Account Settings > Report Settings.

Creating Reports

Agreement reports allow the user to create a view of agreements within a defined time frame and represented in a numerical summary table with at least one chart (the chart content depends on the report type you run).

Agreement reports only support the previous 60 months of data. Reports requesting data outside the scope of 60 months trigger an error and block the creation of the report.

To create a new agreement report:

  1. Select New Report

  2. Select a report type.

  3. Select one or more charts for the report.  

    Click Continue.

    The report configuration interface

  4. Define the filters for the report.

    Click View Report.

    Define the filters

  5. The page refreshes and displays the report with the filters listed across the top.

    Click Save.

    Displayed report with filters

  6. Provide a Report name and click Save.

    This report name is what is used to identify the report on your Reports filter page.

    Save the report to your system reports record

  7. The page refreshes to the default Overview dashboard and a success message is displayed indicating the report has been saved.

    A saved report with the Success message displayed

    At any time you can return to the Report filter for the report type you used and open the report to view it with current data.

    And agreement report record with the Open action highlighted

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