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title: "Dashboard Builder"
date: "2024-02-14T06:18:38+00:00"
summary: "Create stunning, interactive dashboards effortlessly. Combine Looks, add visualizations, and customize layouts to build comprehensive reports. Perfect for marketers seeking data-driven insights and enhanced decision-making capabilities."
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This page provides information about building dashboards for the following scenario:

Marketers want to understand how to use dashboards to combine all Looks into a comprehensive report.

Setting up a dashboard
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1.  [Sign in to your CDP user interface](https://docs.acquia.com/customer-data-platform/getting-started/signin-cdp).
2.  Click **Analytics** > **Metrics**.
3.  Click **New** > **New Dashboard**.
    
    ![New dashboard](https://acquia.widen.net/content/wjymz2makl/jpeg/cdp_new-dashboard.jpeg?position=c&color=ffffffff&quality=80&u=lcfvma)
    
4.  In **Enter the name of the Dashboard**, enter a suitable name for the dashboard and click **OK**.
    
    ![Creating dashboard](https://acquia.widen.net/content/skuakleehs/jpeg/cdp_create-dashboard.jpeg?position=c&color=ffffffff&quality=80&u=lcfvma)
    
    CDP displays a new blank dashboard page.
    

Adding tiles to a dashboard
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Each element in a dashboard is called tile. You can build your dashboard by adding multiple tiles. 

The following are the types of tiles:

**Tile type**

**Description**

Look-linked tile

You can add the saved looks to dashboards. These tiles are linked to a look and the dashboard displays the changes to the look. The look and the dashboard must be in the same space. If the look is deleted, the dashboard displays an error for this tile. A look-linked tile is suitable for creating, changing, and testing a query in one place and using it in multiple dashboards.

Query tile

You can create a look from scratch and save it as a tile in the dashboard. These tiles are not linked anywhere and the changes only reflect within the dashboard. You can convert a look-linked tile into a query tile using the gear icon at the top of the Look screen. It breaks the connection so that the tile is unaffected by any later changes to that look. The query tile still exists independently on the dashboard even if the look is deleted.

Text tile

You can add headers and text to your dashboards. You can use them to make visual sections on a dashboard or add descriptions as needed.

To add a tile to a new dashboard:

1.  Click **Edit Dashboard**.
2.  Click **Add Tile**.
    
    You can add the following:
    
    *   Visualization
    *   Text
    
    ![Adding tile to dashboard](https://acquia.widen.net/content/ymqp42tpog/jpeg/cdp_add-tile-to-dashboard.jpeg?position=c&color=ffffffff&quality=80&u=lcfvma)
    
3.  Choose an Explore from the available options.
    
    ![Selecting an explorer](https://acquia.widen.net/content/xlrrncl5gy/jpeg/cdp_choose-an-explorer.jpeg?position=c&color=ffffffff&quality=80&u=lcfvma)
    
    CDP displays the Edit Tile screen.
    
4.  Select data by adding dimensions and measures to the report.
    
    ![Adding dimensions measures](https://acquia.widen.net/content/ekhtsgvp1h/jpeg/cdp_add-dimensions-measures.jpeg?position=c&color=ffffffff&quality=80&u=lcfvma)
    
5.  Configure the visualization.
6.  In **Title**, add a title.
7.  Click **Save**.

Adding a look to a dashboard
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It is easy to add previous Look reports to your existing dashboard.

1.  Open a look that is saved in the space.
2.  Click the gear icon at the top right corner of the page.
3.  Click **Save to Dashboard** to save as a query tile to the existing dashboard.
    
    ![Adding look dashboard](https://acquia.widen.net/content/p5exldbazu/jpeg/cdp_add-look-dashboard.jpeg?position=c&color=ffffffff&quality=80&u=lcfvma)
    
    You can also do one of the following:
    
    *   Click **New Dashboard** to create a new dashboard.
    *   Click **Add Look to Dashboard** to save the look to an existing dashboard. This option is not available if the look and the dashboard are in different spaces.

Adding a text tile
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1.  Open an existing dashboard or create a new dashboard.
2.  Click **Edit Dashboard**.
3.  Click **Add Tile** > **Text**.

> ![Adding text tile dashboard](https://acquia.widen.net/content/mi7sxpwvs0/jpeg/cdp_add-text-tile-dashboard.jpeg?position=c&color=ffffffff&quality=80&u=lcfvma)

4\. Enter an appropriate value in each of the fields, and click **Save**.

Copying a dashboard
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You can copy an existing dashboard to any folder other than the source folder where it is currently present.

To copy a dashboard:

1.  Click **Analytics** > **Metrics**.
2.  Open any folder under **Spaces**.
    
    CDP displays a list of looks and dashboards.
    
3.  To copy a dashboard, click the three dots icon for that dashboard.
4.  Click **Copy**.
    
    CDP displays the list of destination folders.
    
5.  Select the destination folder and click **OK**.
    
    Wait for a few seconds for completion of the process.
    
    CDP displays the `Dashboard copied` message.
    
6.  Verify the copied dashboard in the destination folder.