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### Creating a New Dashboard
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The first time you open the Dashboard, it will be ready for you to build a new dashboard. However, once you build or load a dashboard, it will default to loading that and you will have to specifically create a new one.
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You can create a new dashboard by clicking the left-most icon in the toolbar panel. This will clear the content of the existing dashboard (if any) and allow you to start building a new dashboard from scratch.
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The first time you open the Dashboard, it will be ready for you to build a new dashboard. You can create a new dashboard by clicking the left-most icon in the toolbar panel.
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### Adding Visualizations To a Dashboard
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To add a visualization to the dashboard, click the plus button in the toolbar panel and a menu with all of your saved visualizations will appear.
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From the menu, click on the visualization you want to include in your dashboard. If you have a lot of saved visualizations, you can use the *Visualization Filter* at the top of the list to find the visualization you want to use.
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From the menu, click on the visualization you want to include in your dashboard. If you have more then 5 saved visualizations, you will need to use the *Visualization Filter* at the top of the list to find the visualization your looking for.
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Once you've clicked on the visualization, you will see it appear in a *container* in the dashboard below.
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### Saving Dashboards
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Once you have built a dashboard, you will most likely want to save it for loading and sharing later. To do this, click on the save button in the toolbar panel.
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Clicking the save icon will shwo you a menu below the toolbar panel where you can enter a name for your dashboard. After giving it a name, click the *Save* button.
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Click on the save button in the toolbar panel to save the dashboard to Elasticsearch. Clicking the save icon will show you a menu below the toolbar panel where you can enter a name for your dashboard. After giving it a name, click the *Save* button.
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### Loading a Saved Dashboard
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To load an existing dashboard, other than the one that you currently have open, click on the *Open* icon in the toolbar menu. This will present you with a list of existing dashboard you can load. If you have a lot of dashboards, you can use the filter input at the top to search for the dashboard you want to load.
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To load an existing dashboard, click on the *Open* icon in the toolbar menu. This will present you with a list of existing dashboard you can load. If you have more then 5 dashboards, you can use the filter input at the top to search for the dashboard you want to load.
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### Sharing Dashboards
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### Moving Containers
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To move containers around, simply drag the container by clicking and holding the header and moving it where you want it. Other containers may shift around to make room for the container you are moving.
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When you are happy with the location of the container, simply let geo of the mouse button.
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To move containers around, drag the container by clicking and holding the header and moving it where you want it. Other containers may shift around to make room for the container you are moving. When you are happy with the location of the container, release the mouse button.
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### Resizing Containers
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As you move the mouse cursor of the container, a small icon will appear on the bottom right of the container. If you move your mouse down to that icon, you can click and drag the container to make it the size you need.
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When you let go of the mouse button, the visualization inside the container will adjust to the new container size.
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As you move the mouse cursor to the bottom right corner of the container, a small move icon will appear. Once your cursor changes the move icon, you can click and drag the container to make it the size you need. When you let go of the mouse button, the visualization inside the container will adjust to the new container size.
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### Removing Containers
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Containers can be removed from your dashboard by clicking on the close icon, located at the top right of the container. This will not delete the saved visualization, it will simply remove it from the Dashboard.
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Containers can be removed from your dashboard by clicking on the close icon located in the top right of corner the container. This will not delete the saved visualization, it will remove it from the current Dashboard.
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## Viewing Detailed Information
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It may sometimes be useful to view the data that is being used to create the visualization. You can view this information by clicking on the bar at the bottom of the container. Doing so will hide the visualization and show the raw data it's using.
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There are four tabs at the top of this view that break down the data in various ways.
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It may sometimes be useful to view the data that is being used to create the visualization. You can view this information by clicking on the bar at the bottom of the container. Doing so will hide the visualization and show the raw data it's using. There are four tabs at the top of this view that break down the data in various ways.
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### Table
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This is a representation of all the underlying data, presented as a paginated data grid.
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The items in this table can be sorted by clicking on the table headers at the top of each column.
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This is a representation of all the underlying data, presented as a paginated data grid. The items in this table can be sorted by clicking on the table headers at the top of each column.
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### Request
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## Changing the Visualization
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To change a visualization, click on the *Edit* icon at the top right of the visualization container. This will open that visualization in the *Visualization* app.
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Refer to the [Visualization docs](#vis) for usage instructions.
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To change a visualization, click on the *Edit* icon at the top right of the visualization container. This will open that visualization in the *Visualize* app. Refer to the [Visualize docs](#vis) for usage instructions.
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