In Explore, a dashboard is a customizable space to share information about your Zendesk products. Dashboards enable you to add, arrange, and present your reports just how you want. In this article, you'll learn some of the basic features of Explore dashboards, and see some examples of how you can use them.
Creating a new dashboard
There are two different ways you can create a new dashboard in Explore:
If you want more detailed information about creating dashboards, see Creating dashboards.
Creating a new dashboard from the dashboards library
You can create a new, empty dashboard from the dashboards library. This can be useful if you have several queries you've already created and saved. After you create the dashboard you can start adding queries and other items to it.
To create a new dashboard from the Dashboards library
- Click the dashboards library icon (
). - Click New dashboard .
You are automatically be redirected to the dashboard builder and the dashboard will be added to the dashboards library. You can now add queries and customize your dashboard.
Creating a new dashboard from a query
If you're in a query, you can create a new dashboard and add your query directly from Query builder.
To create a new dashboard from Query builder
- Open an existing query in Query Builder.
- In Query Builder, click Save > Add to Dashboard.
- Select a new dashboard, then enter the name for your new dashboard.
- Click Save.
A confirmation message is displayed in the upper right corner. You can find your dashboard in the Dashboards library.
If you want more detailed information about creating dashboards, see Creating dashboards.
Adding widgets to your dashboard
After you create a dashboard, you can add queries, filters, text, and other objects to it. Anything you add to your dashboard is referred to as a widget. Widgets enable you to build unique dashboards and give your agents the flexibility to analyze data exactly how they need.
- Static widgets will not affect query results or how users interact with your dashboard. Static widgets include images, text, shapes, queries, and tabs. Tabs are useful for dividing your dashboard into separate categories while containing everything in one query.
- Interactive widgets enable your viewers to change what query results to view and how to view them. With interactive widgets, viewers can filter query results, change metrics and attributes, and edit the date range they're viewing.
- Live data widgets (Explore Enterprise only) enable you to add live data to your dashboards which update in near real-time.
- For more details, see Adding live data and live filter widgets to dashboards.
For more information on adding and editing interactive widgets, see Adding and arranging dashboard widgets.
Customizing your dashboard
After you add widgets, you can begin to customize your dashboard. This section will provide an overview of the different options you can use for customizing your dashboard. For more detailed information, see Customizing dashboards. For information about navigating the dashboard builder, see Getting started with the Explore interface.
This section contains the following topics:
About customization menus
All of your dashboard customizations settings are shown in the following customization menus on the top toolbar of the dashboard builder.
- Dashboard menu includes overall dashboard formatting options, as well as dashboard actions you can perform.
- Tab options edit interactions, widget, and export settings for each individual tab. You can also change the tab background color and font. .
- Dashboard title edit the dashboard title size, text color, and background color. You can also use the Add image option to add an image to your dashboard.
- Widget options edit the header size, border color, border and header visibility, border edges, and widget positions. This menu will only appear when you select a widget.
- Widget header: edit the header text color, size, formatting, position, and header fill color. This menu will only appear when you select a widget.
If you add a text widget to your dashboard, you can customize the text formatting. See Customizing text.
For detailed information about all of these options, see Customizing dashboards.
Example: Customize a widget
This try it yourself will walk you through the steps of customizing a widget. Not all customization options will be used in this example. At the end of this example, the customized widget will resemble the image below:
- Open your dashboard in Dashboard Builder.
- Click on your widget.
- On the top toolbar, click the Widget options menu to customize the widget.
- Click the Rounded edges icon to round the border's edges. The customized widget selects 20 as a rounded edge.
- Click the Widget header menu to customize the header.
- Click the left justification icon to position the text to the left.
- Click the Widget header fill color to change the color of the header.
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