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Dashboard basics: Topics, Workbooks, and Tiles

The four building blocks of every Insights dashboard: Topics, Workbooks, Dashboards, and Tiles.

Insights organises everything around four ideas: Topics, Workbooks, Dashboards, and Tiles. Learn these once and any dashboard — pre-built or custom — is easy to navigate.

Topics

A Topic is the set of data fields available to a dashboard. There are three, each matching one of the pre-built dashboards:

  • Reservations — gross revenue, ADR, ALOS, occupancy and adjusted occupancy, rooms occupied, and lead time, broken down by property and audience.

  • Marketing — sends, opens, clicks, open rate, CTR, broadcast revenue, and subscriber and churn metrics, broken down by campaign, property, and channel type.

  • Inbox — ticket volumes, response and resolution times, operator performance, channel mix, and sentiment.

Every dashboard, pre-built or custom, sits on top of one Topic.

Workbooks and dashboards

Every dashboard sits inside a workbook, and each tab in a workbook is a dashboard.

This matters for the Insights Agent: open it from inside a workbook and it has the context of the dashboard you are viewing; open it from the main Agent screen and it does not. When iterating on a dashboard, use the in-workbook Agent.

Tiles

A tile is a single chart, metric, or table inside a dashboard. Common types include:

  • KPI tiles — a single bold number for at-a-glance metrics, often shown with the change versus your comparison period.

  • Charts — bar, line, heatmap, and donut visualisations for trends and breakdowns.

  • Tables — detailed breakdowns, for example by property, audience, campaign, operator, or channel.

  • AI summary tiles — a short written summary of the dashboard (see Reading the AI Summary tiles).

Additional tile types are available in the Custom Dashboard Builder.

Filters and date controls

Each dashboard has a filter bar across the top that controls every tile by default. Common controls include:

  • A date range (for example, Stay Date, Metrics Date, or Ticket Created Date) to set the period under review.

  • A Compare to control, on dashboards that support period comparison, which sets the comparison period behind the "vs last period" change shown on KPI tiles.

  • Dimension filters such as property, audience, campaign, operator, team, or channel — these vary by dashboard.

  • On some dashboards, a Convert to Currency control to display monetary figures in your chosen currency.

To have a single tile ignore a dashboard-level filter, remove the filter on that tile only. This is useful for context tiles — for example, a portfolio-wide total shown next to property-specific tiles.

Need help?

Contact us through the Talk to Us option on the left menu in the platform, or email support@bookboost.io.

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