Widgets

Widgets are the building blocks of a dashboard. Each tile placed on the canvas in the dashboard builder is a widget — a chart, a block of text, a control that viewers interact with, an AI-generated summary, or a layout element such as a spacer or divider. Combine them to assemble polished, interactive views of your data.

Widget types

The dashboard builder supports the following widget types:

• Charts — Visualize reports from your workbook
• Text — Add titles, descriptions, and rich formatting in Markdown
• Controls — Let viewers filter the data, switch the time granularity, or drive several controls at once
• AI summary — Generate narrative summaries of dashboard data on demand
• Spacer & Divider — Non-data layout elements for whitespace and section breaks (in preview)

Adding widgets

Add widgets from the toolbar at the top of the dashboard builder: pick reports from the Charts picker to add charts, use the Add Widgets menu for text, AI summaries, and layout elements, or the Add Controls menu for Filter, Time Granularity and Parent controls.

Each item — a toolbar button, or an option inside the Add Widgets / Add Controls menus — can be added in two ways:

• Click it to drop the widget into the first open spot on the canvas.
• Drag it from the toolbar onto the canvas to place it exactly where you want. As you drag, a full-size placeholder previews the widget's footprint and the surrounding widgets reflow to open a slot; release to drop it there. Dragging is especially handy on dense dashboards, where clicking would otherwise place the new widget far down the page.

Starting a drag from a menu option closes the menu, so it doesn't cover the canvas while you place the widget.

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Dragging a toolbar item to place it exactly (drag-to-place) is currently in preview, and the behavior may still change. Reach out to the Cube support team to activate it for your account. Clicking to add a widget is available to everyone.

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Arranging widgets

Drag any widget to move it, and use the handle in its bottom-right corner to resize it — the surrounding widgets shift to make room.

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Selecting multiple widgets and moving or deleting them as a group is currently in preview, and the behavior may still change. Reach out to the Cube support team to activate it for your account.

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To work with several widgets at once, select them first:

• Click a widget to select it.
• Shift-click to add widgets to, or remove them from, the selection.
• Drag a marquee — press on any empty part of the canvas and drag a rectangle over the widgets you want; every widget it touches is selected.

With a selection in place:

• Move the group — drag any selected widget and the whole selection moves together, keeping its relative arrangement.
• Delete the group — press Delete or Backspace to remove every selected widget at once.