Your entry's Analytics button appears only after the competition's submission deadline has passed, and only when the entry has a project, journal or publication attached to it. Before that moment the button is not rendered at all, so if you have registered and are looking for the dashboard, it is not hidden or broken. It has not been drawn yet.
Both conditions have to be true. A registration with nothing attached to it never shows the button, however long ago the deadline went by. And if the competition has no submission deadline recorded against it, the button does not appear for that competition at all.
Where the button is
Open your profile, select Edit, then Competitions in the sidebar. Each entry is a card, and once the two conditions above are met an Analytics button sits in the card's action row. It opens the dashboard in a new tab. You have to be signed in as the account that holds the entry, or as someone on the list further down this page.
What the dashboard shows you
The page is built around your one entry, not the competition as a whole:
- Entry details. Payment status, the amount and currency you paid, your entry category, the date you submitted, and a link to the receipt when a transaction exists. Entries submitted on a membership are flagged as such.
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Competition ranking. A position and a percentile against the other entries that cleared moderation. The position is your Public Score, the same figure shown in the Public Score column of the competition leaderboard, and it is not a ranking by likes. It is:
Public Score = (Juror's Rating x 5) + (Project Score x 3) + (Likes x 0.2)- Juror's Rating is the average of the jury's scores across every criterion. It stays 0.0 until jurors have evaluated, so early in a competition it contributes nothing to anyone.
- Project Score is the community rating out of 10. Rating is open to members on Annual plans and above, so a project can sit at 0.0 simply because nobody has rated it yet.
- Likes are public votes, counted in full with no cap.
A community rating is worth five times a like, so the entry with the most likes is not automatically first. If your rank looks wrong against the visible like counts, work through the formula above with your own three numbers before reporting it. See what each leaderboard column means. 3. Performance metrics. Views, likes, comments and rating on the attached work. 4. Engagement trends. Views, comments and ratings plotted over a window you choose. 5. Jury evaluation summary. How many jurors scored you, how many criteria, how many rounds are complete, and your overall jury average. This section stays hidden until there is evaluation data to put in it. 6. Evaluation scores. Your score on each criterion, with any remark the juror left. 7. Your project team, for entries connected to a project.
The ranking is a working position, not the result
The ranking is calculated live from your jury average, your community rating and your likes, so it exists and moves long before any result is announced. It is not the award decision and it does not predict one. Awards are named by the jury and the UNI team, which How competition awards are decided covers.
Who can open your dashboard
Access is narrower than most people expect. Exactly four kinds of account get in:
- The entry owner, meaning the account that registered.
- Accepted members of the project's team, for entries connected to a project. An invitation you have not accepted, or one that was rejected, does not carry access.
- The author of the journal or publication, for entries connected to one of those.
- UNI staff.
Everyone else is refused with "You do not have permission to access this entry", and a signed-out visitor is asked to sign in first. That list controls who can open this dashboard. It is not a promise of secrecy about the scores themselves: a competition's leaderboard shows juror scores to anyone signed in, with the jurors anonymised. Treat the dashboard as your own detailed view rather than as private information.
Reading the scores half of the page
The Evaluation Scores section is the part most entrants come for, and it has its own timing and its own rules about juror anonymity. Seeing your jury scores and juror remarks on your entry covers when the scores land, why the jurors are unnamed, and what to do when the section is empty.