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Feature for the Win
Just wanted to share my thanks and appreciation for a new to me feature that I just LOVE! #DYK you can set a requirement that members apply at least 1 tag to their question?! In the past, I've had customizations built to address this because it used to be a requirement that Vanilla Community Members had to select a…
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Emails Sent from Community - is a digest available?
Good day all, Regarding email notifications sent from my community to members, is it possible to see how many were sent and what the open rate is? Best, Toby
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TEST: How Does AI Suggested Answers Work
I need an example of how the AI suggested Answers Work
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Does anyone know how to setup a PowerBI dashboard for HLV analytics?
Hi everyone! Does anyone know how to create a PowerBI dashboard using HLV Analytics so I can get a holistic view of our customers within one view without having to pull multiple dashboards? It's extremely manual and time-consuming and I'm unable to determine holistic growth both at the individual and account levels: This…
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List of Top Metrics You Report Up To Leadership and Measuring Stickiness
Hi everyone, My name is Cali and I work with a B2B SaaS Enterprise company. Currently I am working on tracking our top 20-30 companies within our Vanilla Dashboards and was curious if anyone had a cheat sheet/list they could share on the top metrics they report up to their leadership. I have several in mind and already…
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Anyone else seeing a weird spike in "Other" views?
Hi broader Community folks, We submitted a Support ticket about this but Support wasn't sure what this meant either, so thought I'd ask here to see if this change is unique to us or is happening across other forums. We're seeing a big spike in "Other" views when we look at views by Type. It started in March and suddenly…
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Question about Snowflake and Tables
Good day Community - I have been using Fivetran to export community data into Snowflake and have questions about 2 Tables: Search Session What information do these 2 Tables provide and what does "Session" define? Thank you, Toby
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Are metrics for widgets available?
Good day Community - I have a short video posted on my community Home page that provides a tour to help visitors get the most out of the community. Is it possible to gather metrics on how many have clicked on the video / widget over a period of time? I would like to learn about the widget's popularity and if I can make…
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Tip Tuesday: Don't skip the UTM tag in your URLs. Your future self will thank you.
As a marketer, I rely on UTM parameters all the time. They’re one of the easiest ways to see which emails, social posts, or announcements are sending people to your community and which ones aren’t pulling their weight. So if you’ve ever looked at your analytics and wondered “How did people end up here?” a missing UTM might…
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Calculating ROI - How are you doing it?
I was chatting with a colleague about how to calculate ROI (Return on Investment) for support communities the other day — in my experience most organizations will need to get some data from community, some from surveys and some from other orgs, such as their support org. While discussing, this great video from Brian…
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Customer Showcase - Unlocking the Power of Dashboards: A Guide to Proving Community Health and Value
Good day Community, and thank you @Kirstie Macfarlane. Normally I am asking questions, today I am sharing :-) As Community Managers, we build trust, strengthen brand loyalty, educate clients, reduce formal tickets, and minimize churn. How do we achieve these goals, prove community value, and its impact on the organization?…
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Can Category Follows be Tracked and Measured?
Good day Community - I have launched a category I am using for blogs and would like to know how many community members have subscribed to (are receiving notifications) for each one. I have created a dashboard that shows the following for each blog: Page Views by parent category name Visits per role-type Most viewed posts…
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Community Retention and Gamification
I am trying to find percentage of returning users to our community? Is there a way we can calculate that in HL Vanilla? We would like to introduce gamification program in an effort to increase engagement and improve retention. I was wondering how can we calculate the success of the program. I would appreciate any advice…
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What is the difference between "Questions solved" and "Answers accepted"?
Good day Community, I launched my new community last week and am creating analytics to understand my membership activity and community health. I am working with the Q&A tab in Analytics and seeking the definitions for the following please: Questions answered Questions solved Answers added Answers accepted Thank you for…
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Custom Table Help - Discussion Posts w/ No Comments
I created a custom table with the aim of finding all discussion posts without a comment. No matter how I configure this table, it still returns some posts that do, in fact, have comments (despite saying the comment count is 0). What am I doing wrong? For instance, this discussion post appears in the report - it says it has…
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Analytics: Engagement - Participation rate data unclear
Heyhey, I am playing around with analytics data and I dont really understand some data-points. For example the excerpt from the engagement dashboard reg. participation rate: (this dashboard is just a copy from the standard engagement one and I removed the other graphs to focus) So the participation rate for December 2024…
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My top three groups analytics custom charts! 📈
A lot of communities I've been checking out these days are leveraging our groups feature — whether groups are right for your community or if basic categories make more sense (but that's another post…) can be a hot topic, but if you've already got groups and want to analyze them a bit more to see how they are being used…
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Data Visualization and Story Telling
Hey community! I'm looking for tips and tricks for reporting and data visualization that can make the value of our community more tangible to the Financial Dept. at our org! Anyone have some custom dashboard views that you like and help you tell a compelling story!?
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How do you track support themes over time to feed into product?
We're looking to analyse what topics come up often for support most often. How are other communities doing this? Some of the ideas we have: Analyse search terms - what are people searching for most often? (we're already doing this but it only covers one element) Analyse tags - which tags are being used most frequently…
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Silos and Data
Hey folks, I wrote about breaking down silos just over a year ago. In that post, I was specifically talking about a product team. I mentioned how important it is to bring facts and data to help other teams understand the importance of the community. Now, one of my customers wants to use their data to break down silos…
