What are Impact Tool Categories?

Tool categories provide you with the ability to show or hide out-of-the-box content related to specific functionalities or tools that are or are not relevant to your institution and can be managed from your Dashboard.

Note: If a tool category is hidden, any contexts assigned to that particular tool category are not visible in the overview.

What are Impact Tool Categories?

What are Impact Tool Categories?

1. What are tool categories applied to and how do they behave?

Tool categories are applied to out-of-the-box contexts, monitors, support center categories, individual support articles, reporting templates, and reporting template categories. The behavior of each of these is outlined below.
What are tool categories applied to and how do they behave?

2. Open Contexts

In Global Navigation, click the Admin dropdown menu. Then click the Contexts link.
Open Contexts

3. View Contexts Tool Categories

After enabling the Tool Category column visibility, the contexts table displays the Tool Category column.
View Contexts Tool Categories

4. Open Messages

In Global Navigation, click the Communication dropdown menu. Then click the Messages link.
Open Messages

5. View Messages Tool Categories

After enabling the Tool Category column visibility, the messages table displays the Tool Category column.
View Messages Tool Categories

6. Open Support

In Global Navigation, click the Support link.
Open Support

7. View Support Tool Categories

After enabling the Tool Category column visibility, the articles table displays the Tool Category column.
View Support Tool Categories

8. Open Impact Insights

Access "Impact Insights" from the menu.
Open Impact Insights

9. Open Data Management

Click the Configuration dropdown menu, then click the Data management link.
Open Data Management

10. View Monitors

In the Monitors tab, after enabling the Tool Category column visibility, the monitors table displays the Tool Category column.
View Monitors

11. View Reporting Templates

In the Reporting Templates tab, Reporting Templates are displayed. Some reporting templates have a tool category attached at the top level, which provides you with the ability to completely hide the whole report for a cleaner dashboard both inside the reporting templates page and within your insights.
View Reporting Templates
This guide covered Impact Tool Categories.