Employee Document Management dashboard

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title: Employee Document Management dashboard
description: Gain insight into macro trends more efficiently on a single dashboard-style page showing you important metrics on employee documents, status of purging and purge settings, and legal holds.The Employee Document Management Dashboard provides a quick and easy way to view statistics about the purge and legal hold status of your employee documents.
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release: brazil
product: Employee Document Management
classification: employee-document-management
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
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breadcrumb: [Employee Document Management, HR Documents, HR Service Delivery, Employee Service Management]
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# Employee Document Management dashboard

Gain insight into macro trends more efficiently on a single dashboard-style page showing you important metrics on employee documents, status of purging and purge settings, and legal holds.

Activating the Performance Analytics - Content Pack - Human Resources Employee Document Management Scoped App \[com.sn\_hr\_employee\_files\_pa\] plugin enables the Performance Analytics reports and dashboard for the Employee Document Management.

The Employee Documents Dashboard has two tabs:

-   Documents and Purging
-   Legal holds

-   **Documents**

    Provides totals for:

    -   Total Documents
    -   Documents Added in Last 30 Days
    -   Employees without Documents
    -   Unused Document Types
    Also provides totals for:

-   **Purging**

    Provides totals for:

    -   Pending Purge Authorization
    -   Purged Rejected
    -   Purge Date Not Calculated
    -   Purge Authorization Approver Group
    -   Purge Date Passed
    -   Purge Schedule for Next 6 Months
-   **Legal holds**

    Shows number of legal holds for:

    -   Employees
    -   Document Types
    -   Documents
    -   Documents on Legal hold

        **Note:** You can also group and stack your data by different categories.


## View Employee Document Management Dashboard

The Employee Document Management Dashboard provides a quick and easy way to view statistics about the purge and legal hold status of your employee documents.

### Before you begin

Role required: admin

### Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **HR Administration** > **Employee Documents** > **Dashboard**.

    The **Documents and Purging** tab shows by default.

2.  Select the **Legal Holds** tab to view the number of employees, document types, and documents on legal hold.