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What's a Widget and how do I use it in a Dashboard?

Learn how to Add and Remove widgets. It also looks at customising widget instances covering Title, Date Range and Linking Widgets.

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Written by Product Marketing
Updated over 2 years ago

Charts created in Explore are packaged into Widgets that can be inserted into Dashboards. Any chart created on Regular DataGrids can be used in Dashboards; those created in Fixed Interval DataGrids cannot.

Editing a Dashboard to Add Existing Widgets

Click the Edit Dashboard link or icon to open a dashboard in Edit mode.

Adding an Existing Widget into a Dashboard

If you have created Charts in Explore, they can be added to your Dashboard as Widgets that you can customise and move around to create a layout of your choice. Click on the Select an Existing Widget button to get started.

Select Widget

Filter the Widget list and click on the widget to add it to a dashboard. You can add the same Widget multiple times.

Add Widget

Once you have found the Widget, click anywhere on the row to add it to the Dashboard. A widget is always added below the last widget. In this example, the user has clicked twice on a widget, placing two instances of the same widget, one below the other.

Return to the Dashboard

Once the desired widgets are added, you can return to the Dashboard in its Edit Mode by closing this panel.

Save Dashboard

Remember to save changes by clicking on the Save Dashboard button.

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