Custom Colors in Insight Reports

Scott Ochander
Scott Ochander Member Posts: 10
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edited September 18 in Ideas and Product Feedback #1

The insight reports can be customized to show a lot of helpful information. One issue I have found is that I can run 2 reports involving similar data, and the colors for the categories change from report to report. I would love to be able to assign certain colors to certain sales people, products, etc.....so that there could be some uniformity when viewing insight reports. 

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  • Inês Batata
    Inês Batata Posts: 2,209
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    edited July 2021 #2

    Hi @Scott Ochander , we're happy to hear you're enjoying the Insights feature! It's still under development, so new abilities will be coming in the future. Stay tuned!

    I have forwarded your suggestion internally to our team so they can take it into consideration. I suggest you join our Research and Beta Testing channel to be the first to know what's coming up next and for the chance to try out early versions of new and improved features we have lined up.

  • Clarissa Silvino
    Clarissa Silvino Moderator Posts: 80
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    edited September 2021 #3

    Hey Scott, thank you for pointing this out. I'm afraid for now it is expected, but it's an excellent feedback and I'll make sure to share with the team. Insights is still on Beta flag, so every feedback you can provide it's important for us to improve the feature.

  • Nicole Kooij
    Nicole Kooij Member Posts: 1
    edited September 2021 #4

    Hi Clarissa / Scott,

    Thank you for the update and pointing it out! It would be great if we could assign colours for uniformity. Right now, I have multiple reports where value X is blue in the first and orange in the second (and value Y vice versa). It's a bit confusing when you see them in one dashboard. 

    Furthermore, great tool and really helpful.
    Looking forward to the update!

    Nicole
     

  • Collin Sloan
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    edited February 2022 #5

    I have exactly the same issue. For my divisional reports, Division 1 is blue, for the second report, Division 1 is green and so on. 

  • Vladimir Dubakin
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    edited September 2021 #6

    I have exactly the same issue. For my divisional reports, Division 1 is blue, for the second report, Division 1 is green and so on. 

    Thank you, Collin!

    Even though I am not sure there is a plan already to be able to custom assign colours to your Insights reports - I made sure to pass the feedback over to the product manager.

    Thank you again,

    Kind regards,

    Vladimir

  • Greg Bishop
    Greg Bishop Member Posts: 1
    edited February 2022 #7

    Agreed - I have the same issue.

  • Kreete K
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    edited July 2021 #8

    Agreed - I have the same issue.

    Thank you @Greg Bishop,
    I will share this feedback with our Product team so they can take into account for the future improvements. 

  • Stacey Nerz
    Stacey Nerz Member Posts: 6
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    edited February 2022 #9

    I have the same issue. Insights is always changing which makes it impossible to make comparison charts or requires just about the same amount of time altering it within Excel to get a finished result. Additionally, and what I find more problematic as shown below is that an entire chart can't fit on one page. This means you have to click the arrows to see the rest of the chart and then it changes the colors that are assigned from the first page event though it is the same chart. This is highly confusing. I hope this is something that is changed relatively soon as insights could be such a useful feature with just this change. 

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    Orange here is industrial trucks
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    Orange here is mobile robots, even thought this is the same chart just one slide over

  • Helio
    Helio Moderator Posts: 63
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    edited July 2021 #10

    I have the same issue. Insights is always changing which makes it impossible to make comparison charts or requires just about the same amount of time altering it within Excel to get a finished result. Additionally, and what I find more problematic as shown below is that an entire chart can't fit on one page. This means you have to click the arrows to see the rest of the chart and then it changes the colors that are assigned from the first page event though it is the same chart. This is highly confusing. I hope this is something that is changed relatively soon as insights could be such a useful feature with just this change. 

    image
    Orange here is industrial trucks
    image

    Orange here is mobile robots, even thought this is the same chart just one slide over

    Hello @Stacey Nerz ,

     

    Thank you so much for your detailed feedback. I understand where you are coming from, therefore, I will add this to the already existing feedback to give it more visibility internally!

  • Matt_29795
    Matt_29795 Member Posts: 4
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    edited June 2021 #11

    Yes I have the same issue with insights. It makes it so much harder to extrapolate data.

  • Kate Nicolazzo
    Kate Nicolazzo Member Posts: 1
    edited February 2022 #12

    Just another vote for making this possible, we have four pipelines all with the same stages and I'd love to see the same colours for each stage so we can compare apples with apples! 

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  • Liz (Ops Designed)
    Liz (Ops Designed) Member Posts: 109
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    edited July 2022 #13

    There should be a way in Insights to have the same segment be represented by the same color across reports. I realize this could get complex with allowing custom fields to be used in reports, but at a basic level, if ever segmenting by deal owner the deal owner should be the same color across reports (see screenshot). When they vary report by report, it can become very difficult to read a whole dashboard quickly.

    Also, would be great if reports could be made color blind friendly - even if that was a toggle that could be turned on/off as needed.

  • Keith Greywood
    Keith Greywood Member Posts: 38
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    edited September 2021 #14

    Yeah, I would like to use brand colours + logo to make the dashboard look good on a flatscreen in the office

  • Keith Greywood
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    edited September 2021 #15

    I have the same issue. Insights is always changing which makes it impossible to make comparison charts or requires just about the same amount of time altering it within Excel to get a finished result. Additionally, and what I find more problematic as shown below is that an entire chart can't fit on one page. This means you have to click the arrows to see the rest of the chart and then it changes the colors that are assigned from the first page event though it is the same chart. This is highly confusing. I hope this is something that is changed relatively soon as insights could be such a useful feature with just this change. 

    image
    Orange here is industrial trucks
    image

    Orange here is mobile robots, even thought this is the same chart just one slide over

    Oh yeah. I have a few weekly charts but it seems to default to showing the start of the year instead of the last 6 weeks or so and can't seem to change how it displays by default. 

  • cheryl.waldrup@aleutfederal.com
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    edited October 2021 #16

    I see this question was asked last year, but I'm not seeing a resolution.  Is there a way to change colors and to have them be consistent from one report to another? Thanks

  • Thaddäus Leutzendorff_44345
    edited June 2022 #17

    Any update when this might be possible? 
    We have the same issue and its just confusing to have so many colours. 

  • Irina Iglesias
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    edited June 2022 #18

    Any update when this might be possible? 
    We have the same issue and its just confusing to have so many colours. 

    Hello @Thaddäus Leutzendorff 

    Unfortunately, there's no ETA for this just yet but I will make sure to update our team that this is still a high priority for our users. 

    Thank you.

  • JUAN RAMON MIGUELEZ
    JUAN RAMON MIGUELEZ Member Posts: 2
    edited February 2022 #19

    Just another vote for making this possible, we have four pipelines all with the same stages and I'd love to see the same colours for each stage so we can compare apples with apples! 

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    I endorse that request for the ability to change colors. It will be more than helpful: essential.

    Thanks in advance.

    Best regards

  • Daniel Nixon
    Daniel Nixon Member Posts: 1
    edited June 2022 #20

    Any update when this might be possible? 
    We have the same issue and its just confusing to have so many colours. 

    Its only been two years.  

  • Malcolm Ferguson_28749
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    edited September 18 #21

    This would make the Insights really valuable - e.g. choosing a consistent color for clients that match their corporate brand, would make it easier to read across the charts. Equally, it would make sense to assign a range of colors to the pipeline, so that filtering a chart by Stage is easy to read. Currently, the random colors mean I have to check the legend for every chart to see what the colors mean.

  • Mx Moritz
    Mx Moritz Member Posts: 2
    edited June 2022 #22

    Easiest would probably be when I define the activity I want to assign them not just an icon, but also a color.

     

    As a salesperson I need data that informs what I have to do next to close a deal.

    And as a salesmanager I need to color my data in a meaningful consistent way across all reports and optimally across dashboards as well to know if we are on the right track.

    Both things Pipedrive advertises widely in their promotional materials.

  • Paige Pennigar
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    edited September 18 #23

    Just want to echo this - when I run reports by lead source to see progress, it's so frustrating that the colors for each source random. On a dashboard, I should be able to look at lead>deal conversion charts and won deal conversions by lead source and those sources be the same color across multiple charts. Right now, I have to ignore the colors across charts because a specific lead source might be blue in one chart but pink in another.

  • Paige Pennigar
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    Just want to echo this as a crucial upgrade to insights. Not being able to assign colors in the key defeats the purpose of visual charts; if you're displaying charts for comparison and the colors for "X" in chart one is blue and "X" is purple in the next chart, this just creates confusion. I'm quite surprised Pipedrive hasn't fixed this for over a year. This feels like a pretty common feature for any platform capable of producing these types of reports...

  • Nathan
    Nathan Member Posts: 3
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    Another +1 here. This renders the reporting so useless that we will be considering a move, probably to hubspot, to make sure the reporting is actually usable. For me with this issue still not addressed PD is a CRM without a reporting feature and that is not good enough for the price we are paying and the requirements we have.

  • gdp.golegal
    gdp.golegal Member Posts: 1
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    Same here, essential feature in my opinion !!

  • Dan Lord
    Dan Lord Member Posts: 2
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    Adding another vote for this - it is a very important feature for us

  • RI
    RI Member Posts: 15
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    Upvote as well from here

  • Jro
    Jro Member Posts: 1
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    edited January 4 #29

    +1 for this one. How come this essential feature hasn't been fixed in 2 years ?

    I work for an IT consultancy company. I suggest to hand it over to us so we can fix it for you :).

  • Constantin C.
    Constantin C. Member Posts: 1
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    + 1 here. Super crucial issue.

  • Paige Pennigar
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    Surprised this hasn't been fixed/updated since the original post almost 3 years ago...@PipeAdmin any update? This is a crucial feature and it making a case for us to find a new CRM. Consistency across reports is so important.