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# Working with responsive dashboards

# Working with responsive dashboards {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Xanadu
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* Updated August 13, 2025
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* ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 1 minute to read

Responsive dashboards enable you to share widgets such as reports and Performance Analytics visualizations in the classic environment. An
easy-to-use drag and drop canvas helps you create, edit, and arrange content, and then share
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Use dashboards to:

* Create and edit Performance Analytics visualizations and other widgets directly from the dashboard.
* Quickly find and preview widgets, then add them to the dashboard from the Add Widget pane.
* Easily share dashboards with other users from the integrated Sharing pane.
* Snap the widgets into a predefined layout, then adjust the layout as desired.
* Access information that you use frequently by setting dashboards as your Home.
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Watch this three-minute video to learn more about flexible layouts, multiple tabs, sharing, converting homepages to dashboards, and enabling responsive dashboards.

## Benefits {#c_ResponsiveDashboards__section_ec2_l11_mz}

* Optimize performance with configurable widget loading. For more information on the benefits of configurable widget loading, see [Optimize widget rendering time on responsive dashboards](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/vcighcJwNWqlmhIT7D6gfg "Large dashboards can take a long time to render, especially when widgets depend on complex queries or queries on large tables. You can use system properties to optimize how widgets load.").
* Use the Restrict to roles field to [specify roles required to access the dashboard](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/XrBgU7UaSgE7IP5KdURVoQ "Specify additional roles required to access the dashboard when you share a dashboard with specified users, groups, and roles. Only users who the dashboard has been shared with and who have one of the specified roles are able to access the dashboard."). Users with any of the specified roles can access the dashboard if they have been given access on the dashboard's Share panel.
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## Limitation

ServiceNow mobile apps don't give access to dashboards as dashboards aren't optimized for mobile screen sizes. You can access dashboards on a tablet using the standard web interface. It's
possible to create mobile apps that display reports and Performance Analytics visualizations, but these aren't full responsive dashboards. For more information, see [Configure an analytics UI section](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=sg-ui-section-config-reports&version=xanadu&pubname=xanadu-mobile&ft:locale=en-US).
**Related tasks**   

* [Set responsive dashboards as your home](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/WsLAbJ9e0Aaz2~DQsvjWIw "You can set dashboards as your Home. With this setting, the last dashboard you selected appears when you select the logo on the upper left corner of the platform.")