Viewing Explore dashboard information and activity

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<p id="docs-hc-snippet" style="display: none;">In the Dashboards library, you can see important information about existing dashboards. This information includes the dashboard’s name, last updated date, owner, views, schedules, link sharing, and restrictions.</p>
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<p class="p">In the Dashboards library, you can see important information about existing dashboards. This
information includes the dashboard’s name, last updated date, owner, views, schedules,
link sharing, and restrictions.</p>
<p class="p">This article contains the following topics: </p>
<ul class="ul" id="Explore_dashboard_activity__ul_qfm_p5g_q1c">
<li class="li"><a class="xref" href="#topic_dkc_n5g_q1c">Viewing dashboard information and activity</a></li>
<li class="li"><a class="xref" href="#topic_pys_45g_q1c">Customizing the columns in the Dashboards library</a></li>
</ul>
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<div aria-labelledby="ariaid-title2" class="topic nested1" id="topic_dkc_n5g_q1c">
<h2 class="title topictitle2" id="ariaid-title2">Viewing dashboard information and activity</h2>
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<p class="p">The Dashboards library gives you an at-a-glance view of the dashboards in your
account. </p>
<p class="p">Admins can see all dashboards in the account. Editors can see only their own
dashboards and dashboards that have been shared with them. Viewers can see only
dashboards that have been shared with them. </p>
<p class="p"><strong class="ph b">To view dashboard information and activity</strong></p>
<ol class="ol" id="topic_dkc_n5g_q1c__ol_j4j_s5g_q1c">
<li class="li">In Explore, click the <strong class="ph b">Dashboards</strong> icon (<img class="image" id="topic_dkc_n5g_q1c__image_pdw_y5g_q1c" src="https://zen-marketing-documentation.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/en/Explore_dashboard_icon.png">). </li>
<li class="li">Select the <strong class="ph b">Shared with me</strong>, <strong class="ph b">My dashboards</strong>, or <strong class="ph b">All</strong> (available
to admins only) tab. </li>
<li class="li">Review the following columns: <ul class="ul" id="topic_dkc_n5g_q1c__ol_lsv_55g_q1c">
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<strong class="ph b">Name</strong>: Name of the dashboard </li>
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<strong class="ph b">Last updated</strong>: Date the dashboard was last edited</li>
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<strong class="ph b">Owner</strong>: User who created the dashboard. Prebuilt dashboards are
owned by Zendesk </li>
<li class="li">
<strong class="ph b">Views</strong>: (Available only for editors and admins) Number of views a
dashboard has received in the last six months</li>
<li class="li">
<strong class="ph b">Schedules</strong>: (Available only for editors and admins) Number of
<a class="xref" href="https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408843602714" target="_blank">schedules</a> a dashboard is
included in (Editors can see only their own schedules)</li>
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<strong class="ph b">Public link</strong>: (Available only for editors and admins) Whether any
<a class="xref" href="https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408826905626" target="_blank">external links</a> have been
created for the dashboard (even if external linking is later turned
off)</li>
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<strong class="ph b">Restrictions</strong>: Number of <a class="xref" href="https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/5282695803290" target="_blank">dashboard restrictions</a> a
dashboard has<p class="p"><img class="image" id="topic_dkc_n5g_q1c__image_l22_2vg_q1c" src="https://zen-marketing-documentation.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/en/explore_dashboard_activity.png" width="600"></p>
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</ul>
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<li class="li">(Optional) Click any of the column headers to sort the dashboard results
alphabetically, chronologically, or numerically, depending on the column. </li>
</ol>
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<h2 class="title topictitle2" id="ariaid-title3">Customizing the columns in the Dashboards library</h2>
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<p class="p">You can customize which columns appear in the Dashboards library. </p>
<p class="p"><strong class="ph b">To customize the columns in the Dashboards library</strong></p>
<ol class="ol" id="topic_pys_45g_q1c__ol_esl_hvg_q1c">
<li class="li">In Explore, click the Dashboards icon (<img class="image" id="topic_pys_45g_q1c__image_qcm_fvg_q1c" src="https://zen-marketing-documentation.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/en/Explore_dashboard_icon.png">).</li>
<li class="li">Select the <strong class="ph b">Shared with me</strong>, <strong class="ph b">My dashboards</strong>, or <strong class="ph b">All</strong> (available
to admins only) tab.</li>
<li class="li">Click the columns icon (<img class="image" id="topic_pys_45g_q1c__image_jpm_mvg_q1c" src="https://zen-marketing-documentation.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/en/explore_columns_icon.png">). </li>
<li class="li">In the <strong class="ph b">Show and hide columns</strong> list, select the columns you want to appear
on the tab. Any changes you make to the column layout are shared across all tabs
in the Dashboards library.<p class="p"><img class="image" id="topic_pys_45g_q1c__image_brl_bwg_q1c" src="https://zen-marketing-documentation.s3.amazonaws.com/docs/en/explore_dashboards_library_column_customization.png" width="600"></p>
</li>
</ol>
<p class="p">The next time you open the Dashboards library, your column selection is preserved.
However, column settings are saved locally on your browser, meaning they aren't
preserved if you open Explore in a different browser or in incognito mode, or if you
clear your browser's cache and cookies. </p>
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