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# Add a dashboard data visualization to the library

# Add a dashboard data visualization to the library {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Xanadu
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* Updated May 24, 2025
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* ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 1 minute to read

To make a data visualization on a dashboard reusable, or to be able to edit it in the Visualization Designer, add it to the data visualization library.

## Before you begin

Role required: itil, report_user, viz_creator, or higher, and the right to edit the dashboard

## About this task

You may want to add a data visualization that exists only as a local copy on an in-line dashboard to the data visualization library. You may want to do this to make the data visualization available to add to other dashboards.
You may also want to be able to edit the data visualization in the Visualization Designer, as described in [Open a visualization in the Visualization Designer from a dashboard](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/WoTePmJyy1VFKUkM0Qk4~A "From the dashboard editor, open a data visualization in the Visualization Designer. You have a different set of options").

## Procedure

1. Open the relevant dashboard for editing.
2. Locate or create the relevant data visualization.  
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3. Expand the data visualization context menu.  

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4. Select Add to library.
5. Provide a name and description for the data visualization.
6. Select Add to library
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## What to do next

The data visualization now exists in the data visualization library. You can edit it as described in [Open a visualization in the Visualization Designer from a dashboard](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/WoTePmJyy1VFKUkM0Qk4~A "From the dashboard editor, open a data visualization in the Visualization Designer. You have a different set of options").