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Hide a goal from Mission Control or remove it
Turn off Show on Mission Control to keep a goal off the board, or press Remove to delete it. Either way, save the department.
Before you start
- Who can do this
- Agency Owner or Admin
- Availability
- If enabled for your agency
- Where in Orbit
- Sidebar › Manage › Goals
Steps
Tick a step’s number when it’s done. We’ll remember where you were.
Open Goals and choose the department.
To keep a goal but hide it from the board, turn off .
To delete it, press Remove.
Press the department’s save button, such as Save Strategy goals.
When it worked
The bar reads, for example, “Strategy goals saved.” A hidden goal leaves the seat’s [[Telemetry]]; a removed one is gone.
If something goes wrong
You can’t turn off Show on Mission Control.
The north star always shows. Make another goal the north star first.
You removed a goal by mistake.
If you haven’t saved, reload Goals to drop your unsaved changes. Once saved, it’s deleted: add the KPI again and re-enter its target.
You removed the north star.
Make another goal the north star before you save. Otherwise the seat’s board shows its built-in figure instead.
How it works
Explainer: A seat’s north star
The north star is the one goal per department shown as the big tile on that seat’s Mission Control board. It always shows, and it needs a target.
- Each department has at most one north star. Press Make north star on another goal to move it.
- The first KPI you add to an empty department becomes its north star.
- A Track only, no target goal can’t be the north star.
- The north star always shows on Mission Control, so its Show on Mission Control switch can’t be turned off.
- With no north star goal, the seat’s board shows its built-in figure instead.
- Teammates who see only some clients get their own number on the tile with no target. Agency-wide KPIs, such as Data freshness, Connector uptime and Rows ingested 24h, keep their target for everyone.
Limits: What Goals can’t do
Goals are set per seat for the whole agency, from a fixed list of KPIs. Only Owners and Admins can change them.
- You can’t set a goal for one client or one person.
- You can’t add a KPI that isn’t in the list, and each KPI can appear once per department.
- Each department’s save button saves only that department. Save each one before you leave the page; unsaved edits are lost when you leave.
- Removing a goal deletes it when you save, and a new target replaces the old one. Orbit doesn’t keep past targets to look back at.
- The preview shows how the target will read, not the live number. The actual appears on Mission Control.
- Goals appear on Mission Control only. The Dashboard and Insights don’t use them.
- Managers and Specialists see Goals read-only, with no + Add KPI, Make north star, Remove or save buttons.