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Mission Control shows how close you are to a business goal: a number of sign-ups, purchases, or another event, in a period. It lives in the dashboard under Mission Control. A goal reads your existing events, so you do not need to change your site.

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Create a goal

1

Open Mission Control

In the dashboard sidebar, click Mission Control. Then click Create Goal.
2

Name the goal

Enter a name, for example “Monthly Signups”.
3

Choose the target event

Choose the event that counts as one completion, for example signup_completed.
4

Set the target value and the period

Enter the number that you aim for, for example 500. Choose daily, weekly, or monthly. Then save. Mission Control starts to count at once.
A goal reads the events that Grain already holds. If your site has sent the target event before, the goal shows the past progress at once.

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What a goal shows

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Attribution

Mission Control connects each completion to its source: The breakdown tells you which source produces the completions, not only how many completions you have.

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The Studio intelligence pane

Studio is the Grain browser extension. When you open Studio on a page of your site, the intelligence pane shows the Mission Control data of that page:
  • The progress of each goal on the current page.
  • The trackers and events on the page that contribute to a goal.
  • Suggestions for the page, based on its current performance.

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What Mission Control does not do

  • A goal does not create events. The target event must exist. Read Track an event.
  • A goal does not count clicks on one element. For that, create a tracker. Read Trackers.
  • A goal does not show the path to the completion. For that, create a track. Read Tracks.