Bookmarks and favourites
Save the analytics you return to using Favourites (stars), the auto-tracked Recently Viewed list, and shareable URL state.
When to use it — Star the dashboards and prisms you open every day, lean on Recently Viewed to pick up where you left off, and copy a URL to send a teammate the exact view you are looking at.
Where to find it — Favourites appear under Pinned on the Home page; Recently Viewed appears below it. URL state lives in the address bar of Discover and Mosaics.
Who can use it — Tracer, Weaver, and Luminary. Favourites and Recently Viewed are private to your own account.
Celiq does not have a single first-class "Bookmark" object. Instead, three separate mechanisms together do the job a bookmark does elsewhere. This page explains all three so you can pick the right one: a star to keep something close, an automatic history to retrace your steps, and a link that reproduces an exact view.
Overview
| Mechanism | What it saves | Scope | How you create it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Favourites | A pointer to a whole Mosaic, Prism, or node | Private to you, per workspace | Click the star on a card or detail view |
| Recently Viewed | The last items you opened (max 50 kept) | Private to you | Created automatically when you open something |
| URL state | A specific Discover or Mosaic view (fields, filters, grain, cross-filter) | Anyone with the link and access | Copy the address bar |
Favourites and Recently Viewed both surface on the Home page. Favourites show under the Pinned heading; Recently Viewed shows below, with filter tabs. URL state is not a saved list — it lives entirely in the link, so you share or store it yourself.
When to use it
- Use Favourites for the handful of dashboards and prisms you return to constantly. They stay pinned to your Home page until you remove them.
- Use Recently Viewed when you just want to reopen something from earlier today or this week without having searched for it. It fills in on its own.
- Use URL state when the thing you want to remember is not a whole item but a particular view of it — a specific set of fields and filters in Discover, or a cross-filtered slice of a Mosaic. It is also the right tool for sharing, because the link reproduces the view for whoever opens it.
Concepts
Favourite — A saved pointer to one resource. A favourite has aresource_type of mosaic, prism, or node. Toggling a star adds the favourite if it is not there and removes it if it is — there is no separate "unstar" action.
Pinned — The label the Home page uses for your favourites. The Pinned section lists up to six of your most recently starred items.
Recently Viewed — A per-user history that Celiq writes whenever you open a Reveal (in Discover), a Mosaic, a Prism, or a WBR. The list keeps the 50 most recent entries; opening the same item again moves it to the top rather than duplicating it.
URL state — Encoded view parameters in the address bar. In Discover these include ?qid= (a short, opaque query id), ?state= and ?q= (encoded field/filter/grain payloads), and ?fields= / ?filters=. On a Mosaic, ?crossFilter= carries the active chart-click filter.
Query id (qid) — The short, shareable form of a Discover view. Celiq saves the view server-side and puts a ?qid= token in the URL so the link stays short. See Discover query IDs for the full lifecycle.
Getting started
You need a workspace and at least Tracer access. Favourites and Recently Viewed require no setup — they are always on for your account.
To find them:
- Open the Home page (the workspace landing page).
- Look for the Pinned section (marked with a star) for your favourites.
- Look just below it for Recently Viewed, with its filter tabs.
To create URL state, open any Reveal in Discover or any Mosaic and adjust the view — the address bar updates as you go.
Step-by-step
Star a Mosaic, Prism, or node
On a Mosaic card, a Prism card, or the item's detail view, click the star button. The star fills in to show the item is now a favourite. Clicking it again removes the favourite. The change is applied immediately and saved in the background.
Find your favourites on Home
Open the Home page and look under Pinned. Each favourite is a row showing an icon (🗂 Mosaic, 🔖 Prism, 🔍 Discover), its name, and its type. Click a row to jump straight to it. Up to six favourites are shown here.
Let Recently Viewed fill itself
Open a Reveal in Discover, or open a Mosaic, Prism, or WBR. Celiq records the visit automatically. Return to the Home page and the item appears at the top of Recently Viewed.
Filter Recently Viewed by type
In the Recently Viewed header, use the filter tabs — All, Reveals, Mosaics, Prisms, WBRs — to narrow the list to one kind of item. Use the refresh control (↻) to re-pull the latest list.
Capture a Discover view as a link
In Discover, choose your fields, apply filters, and set the time grain. As you build the view, the address bar updates to a short ?qid= link. Copy that URL to bookmark the exact view in your browser or to paste it to a teammate.
Capture a cross-filtered Mosaic view
On a Mosaic, click a data point in a chart to cross-filter the rest of the board. The URL gains a ?crossFilter= parameter. Copy that link to share the board already focused on that slice; opening it restores the same cross-filter.
Examples
Pin a daily dashboard. You open the same revenue Mosaic every morning. Click its star once; from then on it sits under Pinned on your Home page, one click away. When the quarter ends and you no longer need it, click the star again to unpin. Share an exact Discover view. You build a view in Discover —revenue and orders by channel, filtered to last 30 days, at daily grain. The address bar becomes a short query-id link such as:
https://app.celiq.co/discover/123?qid=q_8fK2pLPaste that link in Slack. When a teammate with access opens it, Discover loads the saved state and rebuilds the same fields, filters, and grain. Because the state is stored server-side behind the qid, the link stays short no matter how complex the view is. See Discover query IDs.
?crossFilter=.... Send that link and the recipient lands on the board already scoped to EMEA.
https://app.celiq.co/mosaics/42?crossFilter=eyJmaWVsZCI6InJlZ2lvbiIsInZhbHVlIjoiRU1FQSJ9Best practices
- Keep Pinned short. Only six favourites surface on Home. Reserve stars for the items you truly use most, and unstar the rest so the important ones stay visible.
- Bookmark URL state, not just the item. When what matters is a specific cut of the data, copy the
?qid=or?crossFilter=link rather than just favouriting the whole Reveal or Mosaic — the link preserves the analysis, not only the destination. - Use Recently Viewed instead of re-searching. If you opened something earlier in the session, the Recently Viewed tabs are usually faster than navigating from scratch.
- Store important
qidlinks somewhere durable. A query-id link is shareable, but it is not a saved list inside Celiq — keep the ones you rely on in your browser bookmarks or a Vault.
Tips
The star toggles — there is no separate remove button. One click stars, the next click unstars. The Home page updates immediately because the change is applied optimistically and then saved in the background.
Common mistakes
- Expecting more than six pins on Home. Favourites beyond the six most recent are still saved but are not all shown in the Pinned section.
- Treating Recently Viewed as permanent. Only the 50 most recent items are kept; older entries fall off as you open new things.
- Copying a long Discover URL by hand. Wait for the address bar to settle into the short
?qid=form before copying — that is the durable, shareable link. - Sharing a URL with someone who lacks access. A
qidor cross-filter link reproduces the view, but the recipient still needs permission to the underlying data and item, or it will not load.
Troubleshooting
| Symptom | Cause | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| Pinned section says "No pins yet" | You have not starred anything in this workspace | Star a Mosaic, Prism, or node, then return to Home |
| A favourite shows as "Untitled" | The underlying item was renamed or removed, so its name no longer resolves | Open it to confirm it still exists; if it was deleted, unstar it |
| Recently Viewed says "Nothing here yet" | You have not opened a Reveal, Mosaic, Prism, or WBR yet, or you are filtered to a type you have not opened | Open an item, or switch the filter tab back to All |
| Stars and Pinned do not load | Your session expired; the favourites request returned 401 | Sign in again, then reload the Home page |
A ?qid= link opens to an empty Discover view | The query id is invalid or was not found | Rebuild the view in Discover to generate a fresh qid; see Discover query IDs |
| A shared link loads but shows no data | The recipient lacks access to the item or its data | Confirm their role and item access via Sharing & access |
Related pages
- Discover query IDs — the short
?qid=form for shareable Discover views - Discover — where Reveal views and URL state are created
- Mosaics — dashboards you can favourite and cross-filter into a shareable link
- Prisms — focused views you can star and reopen from Recently Viewed
- Cross-filtering — how chart clicks build the
?crossFilter=state - Vaults — a durable place to keep important links and items