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After you create a dashboard, you can add reports, filters, and text to it. Anything you add to your dashboard is called a component (formerly known as a widget). Components help you build unique dashboards and give your agents the flexibility to analyze data exactly how they want.
You can only add components to custom dashboards (see Creating dashboards) or cloned prebuilt dashboards (see Cloning dashboards).
For help customizing components after you've added them, see Customizing dashboards.
This article contains the following topics:
Adding dashboard components
You can add three types of component: static, interactive, and live data (if you have Explore Enterprise).
- Static components, such as reports and text, don't affect report results or how users interact with your dashboard.
- Interactive components let users specify which report results to view and how to view them. Viewers can also change a report's attributes and filter results.
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Live data components (available with Explore Enterprise) enable you to add live
data to your dashboards, which update in near real-time.
See Adding live data and live filter components to dashboards.
You can add different component types to the same dashboard, but interactive components might require additional configuration steps.
- Create a new dashboard or open an existing one and click Edit.
- In the dashboard builder, click + in the right-hand toolbar.
- In the Add to dashboard panel, click the component you want to add. The component is added to your dashboard.
Arranging dashboard components
You can arrange components by dragging and dropping them anywhere in the dashboard. You can also drag the corners of a component to change its size.
If you add several widgets to your dashboard, the following features can help you align your widgets:
- Placement grid: When you move your dashboard components, they will automatically snap to the grid to help align them.
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Layout: From this menu, you can choose how components will be arranged on the
dashboard or select Place anywhere to organize the dashboard how you want.
Regardless of this setting, you cannot move components so that they overlap.
5 comments
Max
Hi there,
It's such a waste of time to rearrange Explore dashboards !
When you want to grab a component at the bottom and place it at the top you need to make sure to have the correct space.. meaning that you need to grab all components (starting by the bottomest one) and drag them a bit down, until you have sufficient space on top and then move your component.. very poor UI !
Please let us drag and drop anywhere components, and the rest of components would rearrange themselves around, or at least make space for the new component automatically.
Thanks
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Venn Villanueva
Hi Abed,
Cloning dashboard tab is possible, however it needs to be on the same dashboard as mentioned here, Duplicating dashboard tabs.
Now, if you're trying to clone the dashboard from a different dashboard, it's possible as of the moment but that will be a great product feature which you can post here.
Thanks!
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Abed Islam
Is it possible to copy/paste widgets or tabs from one dashboard to another?
I have 2 reports being run, one weekly and one monthly, one of the tabs will essentially be the same exact charts (and same exact queries under the hood), it's just the time filter that will vary.
It will be too much work to have to make a new tab and redo every single widget.
Cloning the dashboard with the new tab is not an option either because their other tabs are unique/dissimilar.
Please advise.
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Brett Bowser
Hey Keith,
Thanks for bringing this to our attention! I'm going to create a ticket on your behalf so our Customer Care team can look into this and see if they can replicate. You'll receive an email shortly stating your ticket has been created.
Cheers!
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Keith Host
Trying to consolidate widgets from multiple tabs in a dashboard onto a single tab for use in team reporting meetings. I copied widgets to a new tab, some are showing a different value in the new tab than they are in the original tab. Others show as "No Data Available"... They are all pulling from the same dataset, and the date filters are identical between old and new tabs. When I go into the Query editor of each widget on each tab, they are completely identical... ????
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