# Actions dashboards

> Actions dashboards are a detailed graphical representation of your actions within a certain tenant, that you create within Insights. Insights allows you to visualize and analyze business metrics related to actions. For example, within your actions dashboards you can choose to view a summary of your pending actions.

Actions dashboards are a detailed graphical representation of your actions within a certain tenant, that you create within Insights. Insights allows you to visualize and analyze business metrics related to actions. For example, within your actions dashboards you can choose to view a summary of your pending actions.

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It might take up to one hour for the Actions data to update on the Insights dashboard.
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## User access

If you have **View** roles for Insights dashboards you also have access to aggregated data across Orchestrator folders. But, as an Insights Admin user, you can limit this access, from the settings in **Manage Access**.

## Enabling actions dashboards

Insights imports task information from Action Center for dashboard visualization. As an Action Center admin, you need to activate the connection between Insights and Action Center.

1. Open Action Center, and go to **Admin Settings**.
2. Under **Admin Settings**, select **Tenant**. This ensures the dashboards reflects the action data for the entire tenant.
3. Within **Tenant**, navigate to **Preferences**.
4. Turn on the **Insights connection** toggle to enable the creation of actions dashboards in Insights.

## Creating actions dashboards

Start creating Action dashboards in Insights using the Actions template under **UiPath Templates**.

1. Enable actions dashboards in Action Center.
2. Select the link to the insights within your tenant. This directs you to Insights, in **UiPath Templates**.
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   To view templates, you need the **Viewer** role in Insights.
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3. Select the **Actions** template. This template provides an overall summary of your Actions, including details like completed, and pending actions, as well as average completion or pending time. You can also filter the summary as you desire. To check the information that the template provides, visit [Actions template](https://docs.uipath.com/insights/automation-cloud/latest/user-guide/actions-template).

If you prefer to create a dashboard from scratch, visit [Working with Insights dashboards](https://docs.uipath.com/insights/automation-cloud/latest/user-guide/dashboards) to learn how to customize dashboards using Insights.