Adding reports to dashboards

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<p id="docs-hc-snippet" style="display: none;">After youcreate a report, you can add it todashboards that you createdorcloned from other dashboards.</p>
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<p class="p">After you <a class="xref" href="https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408821589530" target="_blank">create a report</a>, you can add it to <a class="xref" href="https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408831595418" target="_blank">dashboards that you created</a> or <a class="xref" href="https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408821374362" target="_blank">cloned from other dashboards</a>. </p>
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<div class="note tip" id="topic_zy4_vp2_gz__note_ttb_xv1_1vb">
<span class="tiptitle">Tip:</span> All of the items you can add to a dashboard (like
reports, filters, text, and images) are known as <em class="ph i">components</em>. For information about
adding other component types, see <a class="xref" href="https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408838017690" target="_blank">Adding and arranging dashboard components</a>.</div>
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<p class="p">This article contains the following topics:</p>
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<li class="li"><a class="xref" href="#topic_jff_tv1_1vb">Adding reports to a dashboard from within the dashboard</a></li>
<li class="li"><a class="xref" href="#topic_eck_vv1_1vb">Adding a report to a dashboard from within the report</a></li>
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<h2 class="title topictitle2" id="ariaid-title2">Adding reports to a dashboard from within the dashboard</h2>
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<p class="p">If you're creating a new dashboard, or if you're adding multiple reports to an existing
dashboard, the easiest way to add reports to it is from the dashboard's <strong class="ph b">Add</strong> menu.</p>
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<strong class="ph b">To add a report to a dashboard from within the dashboard</strong><ol class="ol" id="topic_jff_tv1_1vb__ol_h3g_zp2_gz">
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<a class="xref" href="https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408831595418" target="_blank">Create a dashboard</a> or open one for editing.</li>
<li class="li">In the dashboard builder, click <strong class="ph b">Add</strong> in the top left.</li>
<li class="li">From the dropdown list, select <strong class="ph b">Add report</strong>.<p class="p"><img class="image img-screenshot" id="topic_jff_tv1_1vb__image_ujg_zp2_gz" src="https://zen-marketing-documentation.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/en/explore_add_report_dropdown.png"></p>
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<li class="li">From the list of reports, select one or more reports that you want to add to the
dashboard. You can sort the list of reports by name or last update time.<p class="p"><img alt="Add report dialog box" class="image img-screenshot" id="topic_jff_tv1_1vb__image_u1z_fjy_clb" src="https://zen-marketing-documentation.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/en/explore_add_report_to_dashboard.png"></p>
<p class="p">You can also click <strong class="ph b">New report</strong> to launch the report builder and
create a new report.</p>
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<li class="li">When you're finished, click <strong class="ph b">Add reports</strong>.</li>
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<p class="p">The selected reports are added to the dashboard. See <a class="xref" href="https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408819770906" target="_blank">Customizing dashboards</a> for what you can do next.</p>
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<h2 class="title topictitle2" id="ariaid-title3">Adding a report to a dashboard from within the report</h2>
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<p class="p">If you created or updated a report that you want to add to a new or existing dashboard, you
can quickly add it from within the report builder.</p>
<p class="p"><strong class="ph b">To add a report to a dashboard from within the report</strong></p>
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<a class="xref" href="https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408821589530" target="_blank">Create a report</a> or <a class="xref" href="https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408823403546" target="_blank">open one for editing</a>.</li>
<li class="li">In the report builder, click the dropdown arrow next to <strong class="ph b">Save</strong> and select <strong class="ph b">Add
to dashboard</strong>.</li>
<li class="li">In the <strong class="ph b">Save new report to</strong> window, select whether to add the report to a new or
existing dashboard:<ul class="ul" id="topic_eck_vv1_1vb__ol_h1g_yx1_1vb">
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<strong class="ph b">A new dashboard</strong>: Enter a name for your new dashboard.</li>
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<strong class="ph b">An existing dashboard</strong>: Select an existing dashboard.<p class="p"><img class="image img-screenshot" id="topic_eck_vv1_1vb__image_jjh_xz1_1vb" src="https://zen-marketing-documentation.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/en/explore_add_report_to_dashboard_modal.png"></p>
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<li class="li">Click <strong class="ph b">Save</strong>.</li>
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<p class="p">To quickly jump to the dashboard you just added your report to, click the Dashboards icon
to the left of the Save button and click the dashboard's name.</p>
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