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Dashboards
A Dashboard is a personal, at-a-glance screen made up of live tiles — numbers, charts, or tables — arranged on a grid.
Unlike a Report, which is a formatted document you would print or email, a Dashboard is something you keep open and glance at.
The three parts
Dashboard Item — a saved, reusable snapshot of a Query's results: its chosen columns, its view (a plain table, a grouped or summarised table, a pivot table, or a chart), and fixed values for any parameters. Created from a Query's results screen via Save as Dashboard Item.
Unlike a Report, a Dashboard Item's parameter values are locked in when you save it. It is not re-prompted each time, so it can sit there and update quietly.
Dashboard — the page or canvas itself. It does not hold any data directly.
Dashboard Part — the link between the two: one Dashboard Item, placed at a specific position and size on a specific Dashboard. The same saved Dashboard Item can be placed on more than one dashboard.