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title: "The Supporting Report"
description: "Learn what you can do with Bramble's Supporting Report."
url: https://support.brmbl.io/en/articles/10202596-the-supporting-report
collection: "Reports"
updated: 2025-07-24
language: en
---

# The Supporting Report

Learn what you can do with Bramble's Supporting Report.

The Supporting Report is located alongside [Performance reports](https://support.brmbl.io/en/articles/6966086-the-performance-module.md), making it easy to explore related concepts and metrics in your productivity module, but is solely focused on [Supporting Tasks](https://support.brmbl.io/en/articles/6963801-what-are-supporting-tasks.md).. The metrics are curated specifically through the team member and team lenses, ensuring that only relevant data is considered, allowing users to:

-   **Identify team members who are spending the most time on supporting activities**
    
-   **Analyze patterns in supporting work across different days and employee types**
    
-   **Track trends in supporting hours over time**
    
-   **Understand the distribution of supporting work across different categories**
    
-   **Compare the efficiency of supporting activities across teams**
    
-   **Identify which supporting tasks are the most time-consuming**
    
-   **Break down supporting efforts and costs by organizational unit**
    

As with most reports in Bramble, you can run this report over any date-range by simply selecting the time period you'd like from the date filter:

![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/helpcenter/68819d043496084e4796ea23/20250724172925_0273.png)

This guide will walk you through the key metrics and features of this report.

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## Key Supporting Metrics at a Glance

![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/helpcenter/68819d043496084e4796ea23/20250724172925_2381.png)

The report prominently displays three essential metrics to give you an immediate snapshot of your team's supporting activities:

1.  **Daily Supporting hours per FTE**
    
2.  **Total Supporting Hours in the selected period**
    
3.  **Total Supporting Cost**
    

These metrics provide a clear, intuitive understanding of your team's supporting efforts and their associated costs.

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## Interactive Visualizations

1.  A Typical Day
    
    -   Bar chart showing daily supporting hours/FTE by a customizable area (e.g. Unit, Team, Person, Weekday)
        
    -   Quickly identify individual utilization and workload distribution
        
2.  A Typical Weekday
    
    -   Heat map displaying daily supporting hours/FTE by weekday and a customizable area/grouping
        
    -   Understand patterns in supporting activities across different employee categories and days of the week
        
3.  Supporting Hours Trend
    
    -   Line graph tracking supporting hours on a daily basis
        
    -   Spot patterns and trends in supporting activities over time
        
4.  Types of Supporting Work
    
    -   Pie chart breaking down supporting hours by category
        
    -   Easily visualize the distribution of effort across different types of supporting work
        
5.  Daily Supporting vs Cost, by selected area
    
    -   Scatter plot comparing daily supporting hours/FTE to supporting cost by team
        
    -   Identify areas that may be over or under-utilizing resources due to supporting activities
        
6.  Hours by selected area
    
    -   Bar chart showing supporting hours by selected areas
        
    -   Quickly identify which supporting activities are consuming the most time
        
7.  Detail, by selected area
    
    -   Table breaking down supporting hours and costs by organizational unit
        
    -   Gain a detailed view of how supporting efforts are distributed across your organization
        
        ![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/helpcenter/68819d043496084e4796ea23/20250724172924_1445.png)
        

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## Filtering and Customization

Each visualization includes options to expand, filter, or customize the view, allowing you to dive deeper into specific aspects of your supporting data.

![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/helpcenter/68819d043496084e4796ea23/20250724172924_8625.png)

## Configure chart

The 'configure-chart' option allows you to group by and in some cases sort highest/lowest first. This can be accessed by clicking the following icon which appears in the top-right of any relevant charts:

![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/helpcenter/68819d043496084e4796ea23/20250724172924_7308.png)

Clicking on it will show a screen where you can configure the grouping and sorting of a metric:  
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![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/helpcenter/68819d043496084e4796ea23/20250724172924_2176.png)