Take control and streamline your content operations with Mission Control. Equipped with actionable insights and daily activities, you get a bird’s eye view of your content deliverables, track tasks and comments, and establish accountability. With Mission Control, you can ensure everything goes according to your plan.
Glance at your daily activities in Mission Control > Your work,where you’ll find a summary of:
Items you recently edited
Items you’re assigned to
Tasks that you’re assigned to
Tasks that you assigned to your team
This centralized view helps you to navigate your content, stay organized, and maintain accountability in your content production process.Click Show more  to see the full list of items or tasks.The dashboard in
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lets you observe the success rate of your content deliverables using our helpful widgets. You’ll get quick insights on your content progress, your team’s task performance, and trends in your published items. You’ll also find content items that need a refresh or update after a certain period.
At a glance, you can see the progress of your content production using the content progresswidget. The content progress widget accounts for the content items edited within the past 90 days. The items are grouped into the following categories:
Without due date
Scheduled to publish
On track
Close to due date
Delayed
You can also see the number of items in each category by hovering over any of the colored status bars.
Complement your observation of your team’s work with the tasks done on time widget, where you can track their task completion performance. The widget calculates how many tasks are completed within their due dates during the selected period and displays the percentage as a result.
The widget’s trend compares the current and previous periods, enabling you to assess your team’s task performance over time. You can select different periods, such as the current week, month, or the past 30 days, to observe these trends. The past 30 days selection refers to the time frame counting back 30 days from the current date.
The comparison reveals if there’s an increase, decrease, or steady task performance.
Gain more control of your content deliverables by utilizing insights from the items published on time widget. The widget calculates how many items were published within their due dates at a selected period and displays the percentage as a result.
Similar to the tasks done on time widget, you can compare the results from the current period with those from the previous period. This comparison will help you to understand the trend in your team’s publishing performance – whether it’s a decrease, increase, or steady.
The overdue tasks widget helps you stay informed by providing a clear view of all late tasks. This widget displays a list of assignments and their respective due dates for each contributor.
Click on a task to check out the content item that addresses it. You can also click Show more  to see the overall list of late incomplete tasks.
The widgets below highlight content items that haven’t been updated after a certain period to assist your auditing process and ensure all your items are up-to-date and relevant.
The unchanged published items widget shows content that has remained unchanged since it was last published after 90 days. You can sort the items you want to see according to their content type.
Click Show more  to view the whole list of unchanged items in various collections, contributors, and the number of days they remained the same.
The unchanged unpublished items widget displays content items, including previously published items that have not been updated in either of the following ways:
Changes in the workflow step
Content changes made in the past 30 days
For example, Article A was published but later moved to the Copywriting workflow step to incorporate some changes in the content. However, Article A didn’t get any further updates and remained in the same workflow step for 35 days. So, you’ll see Article A as one of the items in the widget.
You can click Show more  to view the detailed list of items in various languages, collections, and contributors and see how long they stayed unchanged in a specific workflow step.
The recent published items widget gives you an overview of what, when, and how many items were published in the:
Past 30 days
Current month
Current week
The insights can help you:
See what content went live to aid in your planning.
Assess cadence in different time frames.
Maintain team accountability.
Quickly reference published items to inform your teams.
Click Show more to see which contributor published the content and in which language.
With content status, you can see an extensive overview of your content creation across your teams, brands, and regions. You’ll get to:
Stay on top of content items in different languages, collections, and workflow steps.
You can find content status in Mission Control > Content status.Â
In content status, you can customize what to include in your view so that you see what matters to you the most. You can spotlight specific information relevant to your progress or simplify your navigation across the view to reduce distractions.
For example, if you only wish to see everything in the view except the Content type column, you can hide the column:
Go to Mission Control > Content status.
In the Content status tab, click .
Select Content type to hide the column.
Track the advancement of your content in Mission Control > Content pace. With content pace, you can:
Prevent delays in your project outcomes.
Identify any potential bottlenecks.
Gauge content value by measuring effort against impact.
Optimize productivity.
The insights show the average time taken for content items at each workflow step and the total days of the entire workflow.
To better analyze the time in each workflow step, you can:
View newly created content or recent updates to published content.
Select specific content types.
Choose a time frame.
Hovering over a workflow step’s bar shows the average number of days and its percentage contribution to the entire workflow. Clicking a specific workflow step bar shows the time your content items spend in each workflow step.
Couple the insights and status from the dashboard, content status, and content pace with project overview and editorial calendar to track your project’s overall content production. You can ensure you stay on top of deadlines, avoid any slip-ups, and maintain consistent quality.
The video below summarizes how you can get the most out of Mission Control, showcasing five in-platform actions you can add to your content production process.
The overdue tasks widget is exclusively accessible to project managers.
Some published items in the list are hidden due to permissions set for your role in the project, but they are included in the total count.
Get more out of your Mission Control experienceYou can opt-in to try the upcoming enhancements of Mission Control in Innovation Lab before they go public. Share your invaluable feedback to help shape the evolution.
Samina Minda Hossain
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