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Creating and Editing a Dashboard

Learn how to create and amend Dashboards to create visuals based on reports in Talos

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Written by Adam Kavanagh
Updated over a month ago

Information: Reporting and Dashboards is currently in a Closed Beta and not available to all users. For further information, please contact your Customer Success Manager.

Note: Creating a dashboard requires the Can View Reports, Can View Dashboards, and Can Manage Dashboards permissions.

Creating a Dashboard

To create a dashboard, you will need to open a created report within the Reporting suite and select the 'Pin' option on the report:

A report can then be pinned to any dashboard that you have edit access to, or you can create a new dashboard to add the report to. If a new dashboard is being created, this will require a name.

Once the details have been setup for the report/dashboard, click on 'Pin':

Note: pinning a report to a dashboard creates a copy of the report. Changes made to the original saved report do not impact the copy on the dashboard.

If you are pinning the report to an existing dashboard, you will be asked to select the tab to pin the report to.

Once the report has been pinned to a dashboard, the dashboard will be visible in the Dashboards homepage.

Editing a Dashboard

To edit a dashboard, click on Edit in the upper right-hand corner of the dashboard:

In Edit Mode you can:

  • Drag, resize and reposition individual widgets

    • Under the 3-dot menu on each widget, you can access the size pre-sets

  • Rename the dashboard and give it a description

  • Add tabs to categorise reports

  • Add a Note Widget to include titles, texts and images

  • Add filters or parameters at the dashboard level - these will override individual report filters

    • After adding a field, click on it to customise set default values, choose applicable reports/tabs and rename the filter

    • You can make a filter required so users must interact with it to see data

Creating a View

A filter will need to be added to the dashboard to create a different view. Click on the filter(s) that you would like to create a view from and select the relevant options in the filter to create your view:

Views can be private or shared with other users so they can access this from the view's dropdown.

Dashboards can also be filtered on departments within Talos, by clicking on the 'Departments' filter at the top of the page and selecting the relevant departments you would like to filter the dashboard on.:

Presentation Mode

Presentation Mode turns your dashboard into a ready-to-use slideshow directly within Talos. You can navigate the slides with the arrows in the top right-hand corner of the page or using the arrow keys on your keyboard.

Dashboards remain interactive - you can right-click on data points or drill-down into the data during the presentation.

Sharing Dashboards

Dashboards can be shared similar to reports. Please see our guide here on sharing dashboards.

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