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# Designing dashboards

# Designing dashboards {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Xanadu
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* Updated August 1, 2024
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* ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 1 minute to read

In the Dashboard Visualization tab, you can create mock-ups of multiple dashboards with
visualizations corresponding to artifacts in the Analysis tab. You can link widgets in this mock-up
to Performance Analytics widgets.

The final outputs of your project are Performance Analytics dashboards, with perhaps separate
dashboards or separate tabs corresponding to your Critical Success Factors and widgets displaying
the measurements. In Performance Analytics, you cannot create these dashboards until all of the
underlying indicators and breakdowns are created. Designing the widgets for these indicators is
also somewhat technical, requiring at least a pa_power_user role. When you share the final
dashboards, too often the viewers who need the dashboards send feedback that your designs did not
quite meet their needs or expectations.

The KPI Composer Dashboard Visualization tab lets you start dashboard design much earlier in the
workflow. You can start work on the visualization when you have only a conceptual tree of your
success factors and measurements on the Analysis tab. Furthermore, you can involve other
stakeholders earlier in the process. Use KPI Composer in presentations early on to get timely
feedback, so when your project is complete, the dashboard viewers get the visualizations they
expect.
1. [Add a dashboard](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/y7lu~5wUm1h~BfW4EscGzQ#add-dashboard-kpi-comp)  
   As the first step in designing your dashboards, add an empty dashboard to the KPI Composer Dashboard Visualization tab.
2. [Add tabs and rows to a dashboard](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/Alu9BJI9gmqtWpN50~_SwQ)  
   A dashboard mock-up in KPI Composer requires you to lay out the tabs and rows before adding visual components.
3. [Add canvases to a dashboard tab](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/gSa86weHeqPV27TJNBgREA)  
   Combine analytics artifacts and widgets to create visual components, called canvases, on a KPI Composer dashboard mock-up. "Widgets" include reports, interactive filters, Spotlight, and content blocks.
4. [Create a dashboard tab template](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/kOmDthIADxNiTWSx6KEaOw)  
   To reuse a dashboard tab design, create a template from that tab.