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# Add breakdown sources to a dashboard

# Add breakdown sources to a dashboard {#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

To enable dashboard users to filter visualizations on a dashboard by breakdown
element, add breakdown sources to the dashboard.

## Before you begin

Role required: pa_admin, pa_power_user, or admin

## About this task

## Procedure

1. Navigate to AllSelf-ServiceDashboards or AllPerformance AnalyticsDashboards.
2. Open the relevant dashboard.
3. From the context menu, select Dashboard Properties.  
   The dashboard record opens.
4. Click Edit in the Breakdown Source related list.  
   A dialog opens where you can move breakdown sources into and out of the list.
5. Move the breakdown sources you want to apply to the Breakdown Source List.
6. Click Save.

## Result

The breakdown sources are available on the dashboard. Users can group the dashboard on the selected elements.

## What to do next

* You can configure the entries in the Breakdown Source related list so that reports on the dashboard can use the breakdown sources as interactive filters. You first create interactive filters that are based on the same tables as the breakdown sources. For more information, see [Make a breakdown act as an interactive filter](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/fmAR8R~oAG1xgjscjovIEw "You can configure a Performance Analytics breakdown on a dashboard to act as an interactive filter for reports on the dashboard. The dashboard must be configured as a breakdown dashboard.").
* Configure the Performance Analytics
  widgets on the dashboard so that users can filter them by selecting
  breakdown elements on the dashboard. For more information, see [Configure widgets for breakdown dashboards](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/288O~J_EmIfcuvnirSmKyw "Configure each widget that goes on a breakdown dashboard. The configuration determines whether and how the widget follows the elements selected on the dashboard. For some widgets and indicators, you can select whether to show multiple element values separately or as an aggregate.").

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**Related concepts**   

* [Showing multiple elements separately or aggregated](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/p7K28vzH4ZGDFu_j7azE0w "When you select multiple elements on a dashboard, widgets that follow these elements can show their values either separately or as an aggregate.")
* [Same breakdown on widget and dashboard](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/eHKMXujyAQlxGUgFuw2uew "If a widget uses the same breakdown as the dashboard, the dashboard breakdown does not apply.")
* [Showing breakdown relations on dashboards](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/mpaq9ueL1cN0WpoTzNCyNg "A breakdown widget can display 1st level breakdown elements that are related to the element selected for the dashboard. The widget must be on a breakdown dashboard, and that dashboard must include the breakdown sources of the related breakdowns.")  
**Related tasks**   

* [Configure widgets for breakdown dashboards](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/288O~J_EmIfcuvnirSmKyw "Configure each widget that goes on a breakdown dashboard. The configuration determines whether and how the widget follows the elements selected on the dashboard. For some widgets and indicators, you can select whether to show multiple element values separately or as an aggregate.")

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