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- Click the **pencil icon** to enter dashboard editing mode.
- Click the **filter icon** that appears in the top-right to add a filter.
- Select a [filter type](#filter-types).
-[Connect your filter](#connecting-a-filter-to-dashboard-cards) to one or more dashboard cards.
-[Connect your filter](#connecting-a-filter-to-dashboard-cards) to one or more dashboard cards on any or all tabs.
-[Configure your filter](#editing-a-filter).
-**Save** your changes.
Metabase will display the filter only if the filter is connected to a card on the current dashboard tab.
## Filter types
You can choose from a number of filter types:
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-[Number](#number-filter)
-[Text or categories](#text-or-category-filter)
The type of filter you choose will determine how the filter works, as well as which fields you’ll be able to filter your cards by:
The type of filter you choose will determine how the filter works, as well as which fields you’ll be able to filter your cards by.
### Time filters
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## Auto-connecting filters to cards
If there are other cards that also have the field you select, Metabase will automatically connect the filter to those cards too (including cards on other tabs). If you later add a card with the selected field, Metabase will also try to connect that filter to the new card.
If there are other cards that also have the field you select, Metabase will automatically connect the filter to those cards too (including to relevant cards on other tabs). If you later add a card with the selected field, Metabase will also try to connect that filter to the new card.
To undo this auto-connecting of cards, click on the toast that pops up when Metabase auto-connects the cards, or manually disconnect the cards by clicking on the "X" next to the connected field.
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Additionally, this Metabase analytics collection has a default sub-collection called "Custom reports" which you can use to save duplicated/modified questions, dashboards, and models. This sub-collection inherits the same permissions, but it's not view-only; admins have curate access by default, and can grant other groups view access.
## Viewing usage insights for a question, dashboard, or model
> Only people in groups with view access to the Metabase analytics collection will see this Usage insights option.
To view usage analytics for a question, dashboard, or model:
- Visit the item.
- Click on the dot menu (**...**).
- Select **Usage insights**.
Metabase will take you to the relevant usage dashboard and plug in the item's ID.
## Creating custom reports
You can duplicate any of the questions, dashboards and models in the Metabase analytics collection and tweak them to your liking, but you'll need to save them to a different collection.
