With Go Vocal's Report Builder, you can create clear, visual, and tailored reports that enable you to share your community engagement results with colleagues and your community.

Reports can be generated quickly using your platform’s data. Within a few clicks, you can:

We have made it incredibly easy to use the Report Builder through a clean drag-and-drop interface. You can use a report template to build your report quickly or create your own report.

There are two types of reports available: Platform reports and Project reports.

Additional data available in platform reports includes:

In addition to offering project-specific insights, project reports come with a built-in front-office view, making it easy to share results with your users in a visually accessible way.

Only admins have access to platform reports, as these contain platform-wide data.

To create a platform report:

Note: If you don’t see the Reporting tab, this feature may not be included in your current plan. Please contact your Government Success Manager to learn more about enabling it.

Start by adding a title for your report.
Next, choose one of the following options:

Once selected, click ‘Create a report’ to enter the Report Builder.

If you choose “Start with a blank page”, you’ll enter the Report Builder with an empty canvas.

From there, you can build your report from scratch. Below, you’ll find instructions on how to:

This option is ideal if you want full control over the structure and content of your report.

If you choose “Start with a project template”, you’ll first need to select the project you want to report on.

After clicking “Create a report”, the Report Builder will open with several pre-filled sections, including:

Some of these elements will be automatically populated with project data (e.g., charts and timelines), while others will need to be manually completed by the report creator.

To access reporting at the project level, your project must include a phase with the “Information” participation method. This phase gives you access to the Report Builder tailored to that specific project.

You can find the reporting feature by going to the relevant phase and clicking on the ‘Report’ tab. From there, click ‘Create a report’ to enter the Report Builder.

Once inside, you can choose to:

In the Report Builder, use the widgets on the left-hand side to add specific data visualizations or text blocks. You can fully customize the report to highlight key insights or provide written commentary based on your project’s context.

Upon creation, the Phase Report will show under the ‘Report’ tab of your information phase. It will only get published when your phase is active, but if you still want to keep it hidden, you can use the ‘Visible’ toggle to control what your end-users can see.

Here’s a view of the report as shown in the front office of your platform.

On the left side of the Report Builder, you'll see a menu that has 2 tabs: 'Widgets' and 'AI' (depending on your plan). In both of these parts, there are items you can drag and drop to the middle of the screen to use them. The differences between widgets and AI uis explained in detail below.

If you want to edit a part of the section you just dragged and dropped in - for instance, to add an image or edit the text - click on the part you want to edit, and the editor will pop up on the right side of the screen.

You can also adjust how the different blocks of a section are arranged; or, if no longer needed, you can delete the block.

If you are building your report from a blank page, you start by dragging different columns to the middle of the screen. You can change the alignment of the columns on the right and if you want multiple rows of columns, you can add white space to make sure the alignment of the rows is set how you want it. You can even drag and drop columns within other columns!

Under 'Widgets' there are several items to choose from. You can add basic empty blocks like text fields, images and columns that you need to fill in yourself. You can also add results to specific survey questions, inputs with most reactions and add specific inputs. In the last category you can select a variety of charts bases on registration data or on participation in a specific project.

The section 'About this report' consists of 3 items. At the top, the logo of the platform is displayed. Below that, the title of the report is shown. And finally, the third part lists the title of the report, the period of the project, and the project managers. The title and the text of 'About this report' can be edited when you click on the part you want to change.

The section 'Title' can be used for the title of a new chapter or part within your report. It automatically enlarges the text so it's clear that it's a heading.

The section 'Text' is a frame to add text to your report.

The section 'Image' allows you to add an image.

When you picked one of the these sections, you can still edit them by changing the layout or adding other content. Changing the layout can be done by clicking and holding the section you want to move and dragging it to your preferred spot. If you want to edit a section, you simply click on it and the editor will appear to the right.

Once you have dragged your desired number of columns into place, you can start filling them with information. There are a couple of options you can choose from to create content with: 'Results' and 'Charts'.

There are several charts that you can add to the report. When you have selected a certain chart, the title and attributes of the chart can be selected and edited on the right side.

Data grouping gives you the opportunity to show survey data for a question grouped by registration fields (gender, location, age, etc) or other survey questions. When you selected the right question you can then choose if you want to group the results to that question based on a registration field or on the answers of another question. You can then choose which registration field or question you want to show.

If you cannot access this option it means it is not included in your price plan

Next to the tab 'Widgets' you can find the tab to use AI in your report. This tab is very useful to get a summary about the results for a specific open question from a survey or to get a summary about the inputs you collected in a phase. If you do not see this tab it means is not included in your price plan.
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First select the project, then select the right phase. If it is a phase with a survey, select the open question you want to summarize. If the phase is about collecting input, the summary will automatically show. You can drag and drop the summary into your report, by hovering over the paragraph icon at the top left of your summary and dragging it onto the report itself.
The in-line references you see in the AI summary bubble that link the summary to specific inputs this is based on will not show when you drag the summary onto the report itself.

To share a report, click on 'Print' in the top right corner of the report builder or select it on the right from the list of all the reports that you've created.

The file will be downloaded and added to your download folder on your device. You can share this with whomever you choose.

Remark: it might be that in your browser the settings automatically direct to a printer for printing, however in the dropdown you should find an option to click 'Save as PDF' if you want the report digitally.

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