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Dashboard documentation updates
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### How to Create a Dashboard
Once you have a question saved, you can create a dashboard. Click the **Dashboards** dropdown at the top of the screen, then **Create a new dashboard**. Give your new dashboard a name and a description, then click **Create**, and you’ll be taken to your shiny new dashboard. You can always get to your dashboards from the dropdown at the very top of the screen.
![Create Dashboard](images/dashboards/DashboardCreate.png)
### Adding saved questions to a dashboard
You can add a newly saved question to a dashboard directly from the window that pops up after you save the question, or by clicking the Add to Dashboard icon in the top-right of a question page. You can also go to one of your dashboards and click the plus icon in the top right to add any of your saved questions to the dashboard.
Once you add a question to your dashboard, it’ll look something like this:
![First Dashboard](images/FirstDashboard.png)
![First Dashboard](images/dashboards/FirstDashboard.png)
### Arranging cards
Each question on a dashboard is in its own card that you can move around or resize as you see fit; just click the edit icon that looks like a pencil in the top-right of the dashboard screen.
The lines around the card will change from solid to dotted, showing you that you’re in edit mode.
Once you're in edit mode you'll see a grid appear. You can move and resize the cards in the dashboard to your liking and they'll snap to the grid.
![Editing dashboard](images/dashboards/DashboardEdit.png)
![editmode](images/Editmode.png)
- To move cards just click and drag.
- To resize a card just click and drag the handle at the bottom right corner of the card.
- To remove a card, click the X icon in the top right corner.
Questions in your dashboard will automatically update their display based on the size you choose to make sure your data looks great at any size.
* To resize a card, hover your pointer over the lower right corner of it and click and drag.
* To reorder your cards, click on the card and drag it to where you want it to be. The other cards will rearrange themselves as you move the card around.
* To remove a card, click the trashcan icon on it.
## Deleting a dashboard
Deleting a dashboard does not delete the individual saved questions on it — it just deletes the dashboard. Remember — dashboards are shared by everyone on your team, so think twice before you delete something that someone else might be using!
To delete a dashboard, click the pencil-looking **Edit** icon in the top right of the dashboard, then click **Delete**.
## Fullscreen dashboards
After you've made your ideal dashboard you may want to put it on a TV or present it in some other visible space to help keep your team up-to-date throughout the day.
To enter fullscreen mode just click the fullscreen icon in the top right of the dashboard.
Once you've entered fullscreen mode you can also switch the dashboard into "Night mode" for higher contrast.
![Night mode](images/dashboards/DashboardNightMode.png)
## Auto refresh
If your data is more realtime in nature you can set your dashboard up to auto refresh.
![Autorefresh](images/dashboards/DashboardAutoRefresh.png)
You can set your dashboard to update in 1, 5, 10, 15, 30, and 60 minute intervals depending on how fresh you need the data to be.
Enabling auto refresh will re-run all the queries on the dashboard at the interval you choose, so keep the size of the dashboard and the complexity of the questions in mind when setting up auto refresh.
Combining fullscreen mode and auto refresh is a great way to keep your team in sync with your data throughout the day.
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Next, we'll offer up some suggestions on how to create useful dashboards, in our [Tips on Dashboards](06-dashboard-tips.md).
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