Mission Control

Start your day with your work

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.

Observe content deliverables in the dashboard

The dashboard in Mission Control > Dashboard 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.

Content progress

At a glance, you can see the progress of your content production using the content progress widget. 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.

Tasks done on time

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.

Items published on time

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.

Overdue tasks

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.

Unchanged items

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.

Unchanged published items

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.

Unchanged unpublished items

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.

Oversee your content creation in content status

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.
• Track due dates and contributors assigned to the tasks.
• Review unresolved comments and tasks without the need to open the content items.

On any content item, you can click: 

• to reveal a list of unresolved comments
• to reveal a list of unfinished tasks

You can find content status in Mission Control > Content status. 

Customize what you see

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:

1. Go to Mission Control > Content status.
2. In the Content status tab, click .
3. Select Content type to hide the column.

Track your content’s pace

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.

Strengthen your content creation planning

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.