# SharePoint Advanced Analytics & Intranet Usage Dashboard (Origami Analytics)

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**Category:** How-Tos & Manuals for Origami Connect\
**Created:** [September 4, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://community.origamiconnect.com/t/sharepoint-advanced-analytics-intranet-usage-dashboard-origami-analytics/1082 "2025-09-04T21:04:07Z")\
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Turn your SharePoint intranet into a source of real insights.

With **Report 1: Site visits by department** , you can:

- See which departments are the most active on which SharePoint sites
- Measure the % of active users across your entire employee base
- Track engagement trends over 7, 30, 90 days, or even a full year — by department or all users  
 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/origamiconnect/original/2X/c/c4a348f510a03d38e4bb01d227b566dfa33f3f1b.png)

With **Report 2: Page visits and trend** , you can

- Discover how many unique users visited a specific page
- Monitor trends over time with clear up/down indicators
- Instantly search for any Site Page or News Page  
 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/origamiconnect/original/2X/0/06e0486dcef351dc3aeddbfef174127cbf57443a.png)

With **Report 3: Pages using Origami web part** , you can

- See a list of web parts and how many pages on a site use them
- Drill down to pages using a specific web part  
 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/origamiconnect/original/2X/4/40aa6640bcf098d3fffb524c485463ef111ecdd0.png)

> **Initial setup**
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> **1️⃣Enable Report Reader permissions in Microsoft Graph**
> 
> 1. Log in to **SharePoint Admin** center with administrative rights
> 
> 2. On the left hand side navigation, click **Advanced** → **API access**  
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> 3. Expand **Pending requests**
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> 4. Search for the following permissions: **Reports.Read.All** and approve it.
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> Give it a few minutes for this change to propagate in your tenant.

> **Additional setup for Report #1**
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> **1️⃣Enable Analytics App on the Site Collection**
> 
> 1. Go to a site collection for which you want to track enhanced site usage data
> 2. Click **(\*) → Add an app**
> 3. Click **Add**  
> ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/origamiconnect/original/2X/d/decd76478031bd2bac5f7aef5f4ee283f4f17023.png)
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> The app will start feeding data for this report from the day you enable it.
> 
> **2️⃣Unmask names in all reports**  
> To track user uniqueness in analytics reports we need SharePoint to show unmasked user names in Reports.  
> Here is how to set this:
> 
> 1. Navigate to M365 Admin: [https://admin.cloud.microsoft/](https://admin.cloud.microsoft/)
> 2. Expand left nav to see the **Settings** option, select **Org Settings**
> 3. In the list, find and click on **Reports**
> 4. In the flyout that will open, **uncheck** the checkbox titled “Display concealed user, group, and site names in all reports”  
> ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/origamiconnect/original/2X/2/25dfa03905dc11388ea1b58d9a0dc0414213aa17.png)
> 5. Click **Save**.

**Add Origami Analytics web part to a site of your choice**

1. Add **Origami Analytics** web part to a page that will be viewable by content admins  
 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/origamiconnect/original/2X/b/b77fd9c8c088d17ac86a8e150d539d9ab8fff989.png)
2. Select the type of report you’d like to see:  
 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/origamiconnect/original/2X/8/8970e9002100b377e22f98883bf186eb6b61012e.png)

You can have 2 separate instances of this web part on the same page each showing different report.