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# Top Settings by Activity and Reach

Shows the top program settings ranked by total activity count and total reach.

#### Location

This panel appears on the following dashboards:

* [SNAP-Ed Dashboard](/analyze/impact-dashboards/snap-ed-dashboard.md)

#### Modules Included

* Program Activities
* Indirect Activities
* PSE Site Activities (SNAP-Ed only)
* Social Marketing Campaigns (SNAP-Ed only)

#### Filters

**Applied Filters**

* **Viewable records** — Only records the current user has permission to view are included.
* **Setting assigned** — Only records tied to a setting are counted: Program Activities with a SNAP-Ed framework setting, Indirect Activities whose channel sites have a setting, PSE Site Activities with a setting, and Social Marketing Campaigns with at least one setting.

**Non-Applicable Filters**

No filter on the dashboard's filter bar is rejected by this panel, but some narrow only part of its data:

* **Primary Curriculum** — Applies only to Program Activities. The other modules have no curriculum field, so their counts are unchanged.
* **Sites** and **Program Areas** — Do not narrow Social Marketing Campaigns, which are not tied to a site or a program area.

#### Calculations

1. PEARS retrieves all viewable records from each included module that match the current dashboard filters.
2. For each program setting, the panel counts distinct activities and sums reach across all modules:
   * **Program Activities** — Count of programs and sum of demographic totals per setting (from SNAP-Ed custom data framework setting).
   * **Indirect Activities** — Count of activities and sum of estimated reach per channel site setting.
   * **PSE Site Activities** (SNAP-Ed only) — Count of PSE records and sum of total reach from changes adopted per setting.
   * **Social Marketing Campaigns** (SNAP-Ed only) — Count of campaigns and sum of channel reach per setting.
3. Two column charts are generated, each plotting the five highest-ranked settings side by side:
   * **Top Settings by Activity** — Settings sorted by total activity count (descending).
   * **Top Settings by Reach** — Settings sorted by total reach (descending).
4. If fewer than five settings have data, active settings with zero values are added in alphabetical order to fill the chart.

#### Additional Notes

* On the SNAP-Ed Dashboard, this panel includes data from all four modules. On other dashboards, only Program Activities and Indirect Activities are included.
* Each chart plots only the top five settings. To see every setting that has data, open the chart menu and click **View data table**.
* Hover over a bar to see the breakdown of activity counts or reach by module: Program Activities, PSE Activities, Indirect Activities, and Social Marketing Campaigns.