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MSPbots Widgets The MSPbots widgets like the Progress Tracker Widget help you to quickly view key critical data and highlight action items at a glance. The Progress Tracker is helpful in monitoring processes or services in a workflow. This article shows how you can start creating your own widget the procedure for creating a progress tracker widget, which you can further customize according to your business needs.

Do these steps to To create a Progress Tracker progress tracker widget:

1. On the MSPbots menu, navigate to Widgets.
2. On the Widgets tab, click New Widget.
   

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2. When the New Widget window appears, select Choose the Progress Tracker widget type.
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1. When the Widget Builder window opens, provide the following: 
   • Name - Give the widget a Name. 
   • Description - Provide a short Description. 
   • Role - Select 

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1. • User or Admin.
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2. Click the 

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1. Apply button.

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1. Dataset and click

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2. Click New

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1. Do the following on the Dataset window: 
   1. Select a dataset to use. 
   2. Add columns by selecting an option from the Column Name dropdown list and assigning an Alias and Business Type for each. Click the

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1. 1. icon to add more rows.

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1. 2. Add filters, measures, and dimensions.
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1. Click the 

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1. Save button.

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1. Click Apply

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1. to show a preview of the target card that you created.

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1. Next, go to Config and provide data for the following fields:

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1. • Measure1 - Select the measure that

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1. • the progress tracker

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   • Suffix - Select the data

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   • Minimum - Set the minimum value of the tracker.
   • Maximum - Set the minimum value of the tracker. 
   • Step 1 - Select the desired color for

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   • Step 2 -Select the desired color for

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     Step 3 - Select the desired color for

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1. the text or background color to change when the fields and measures meet specific conditions, set a conditional formatting rule for your target card. Go

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1. to Conditional Formatting

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1.  and add rules to define the conditions. Once a rule

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1. Apply on the widget rule window.
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1. Lastly, click 

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1. Apply on the widget to show a preview

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