How to Add / Edit a Dashboard Widget

Learn how to update your Dashboards by adding, removing and editing individual widgets

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Written by Whitney W.
Updated over a week ago

When creating classic dashboards you will have to add individual widgets in order to build your dashboard. This article will walk you through how to add and edit dashboard widgets.


How to Add a Widget

To get started, lets follow the simple steps below:

  1. On your existing Dashboard, click on the edit button located at the top right corner of the page and you will then see the Add Widget button appear

  2. Select which type of widget you'd like to add (see this article here to learn more about your widget options) and then click on Add to Dashboard

  3. Configure your widget by selecting your inputs, searches, tags, and applying specific filters

  4. Click on save when you are finished with your widget criteria. You can hover your mouse over your widget and click on the arrow to open up the widget, examine the results, or export the results (you must open up the widget for the exporting option)

See the image below to walk you through the process of adding a widget:


How to Edit an existing Widget

  1. On the Dashboard with the widget to be updated, click the edit icon in the top right corner

2. Hover over the widget and select the edit icon on the widget.

3. A toolbar will pop-out on the right-hand side

Via ' Settings', update the configuration of your widget by selecting each category and changing the options selected.

Via 'Filters', refine the content being displayed within the widget by Country, Language or Sentiment.

4. Click save when you are finished with your widget criteria.


How to Delete an existing Widget

  1. On the Dashboard with the widget to be updated, click the edit icon in the top right corner.

  2. Hover over the widget and select the Trash icon

  3. Select OK on the confirmation message of 'Are you sure you want to delete ...'


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