Add report highlights to an Action Network group

How To Add Report Highlights To Your Action Network Group

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Who This Is For

This guide is for Action Network admins who need to display key report counts on their group management page.

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Report highlights give you a quick view of important numbers on your group management page. Each tile shows a report's name, latest count and last refresh, so you can check the numbers that matter without opening each report.

What report highlights show

Report highlights are summary tiles displayed on your group management page. You can add up to six. They are useful for keeping an eye on numbers such as recently joined members, active donors or email subscribers.

Before you start

🔶 Set each report to recur

Each report you highlight must be set up as a recurring report. Action Network refreshes the tile when the recurring report runs - adding it to Highlights does not run the report. See Setting Up Recurring Reports.

Set up recurrence from the report's manage page before adding it to Highlights.
💡 Keep the update emails out of your inbox

Don't want to get spammed every time a report updates? You can set the email address to reportdrop@greenparty.org.uk to get the benefits of recurring reports without clogging up your inbox.

How to add report highlights

  1. Open your Group Management page and select Add Highlights.
    Digital Training Ground group page with the Add Highlights button highlightedThe Add Highlights button on the Digital Training Ground group page.
  2. The Edit Highlights panel opens with six report selectors. Select any empty box.
    Edit Highlights panel with six empty report selectors and the Save buttonThe Edit Highlights panel has six report selectors.
  3. Find and select the recurring report you want to display.
    Report selector open at its normal size, showing playful recurring report namesThe first selector opens a list of recurring reports.
  4. Repeat this for any other reports you want to show - up to six in total.
    Edit Highlights panel showing six recurring reports selectedSix recurring reports selected and ready to save.
  5. Select Save.
  6. Return to the Group Management page. Your highlighted reports appear as tiles.
    Digital Training Ground group page showing six report highlight tiles after they were addedSix report highlight tiles after saving.
Check it worked: Each tile should show the report name, count and when it was last updated. The counts change when the underlying recurring reports next run.

Making changes to your highlights

To add, remove or change the reports shown:
  1. Hover over the white area where the report highlights are displayed.
  2. Select Edit Highlights when it appears underneath.
  3. Change the report selectors, then select Save.

Choosing which reports to highlight

Each group can choose the numbers that are most useful to it. Useful examples include:
  1. Number of members by Membership_Status
  2. Recently joined members
  3. Number of active donors
  4. Activists who have not opened any emails recently
If you can create a report for it, you can add it as a highlight.
💡 Need to set up reports first?

Report highlights rely on existing reports. Start with Creating a Report in Action Network or How to Create a New Member Report in Action Network.

Next Steps
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Next Steps

More From Digital Support

  1. Setting Up Recurring Reports - schedule the reports that keep Highlights current
  2. Creating a Report in Action Network - build and save a report
  3. How to Create a New Member Report in Action Network - create a reusable membership report
  4. Action Network Reports and Queries - browse the full collection
Stuck? Raise a ticket at support@greenparty.org.uk and we'll take a look.

Official Action Network Guides

You can find out more via the Action Network Support Site ↗, but the guidance won't be tailored to Green Party use cases. If you need any help please raise a support request.
Jargon Buster
Report highlight - A summary tile on a group's management page showing a report's name, latest count and last refresh.

Recurring report - A saved report that Action Network runs again automatically on a daily, weekly or monthly schedule.

Membership_Status - The Action Network field GPEW uses to record a person's membership status.

Activist - Action Network's term for a person record in the database.
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August 2026 Updated
Clarified that highlighted reports must recur, added the reportdrop address, corrected the Membership_Status wording, refreshed Next Steps, added a screenshot of the finished highlights and moved the single procedure inline so screenshots display at full width on mobile.