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title: "Creating a Dashboard Tab"
canonical: "https://wiki.yellowfinbi.com/space/USER73Plus/1376619/Creating%20a%20Dashboard%20Tab"
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Overview Once your reports have been built you will be able to create a new dashboard tab and add them to it. A dashboard is a way to present reports to users in a way that lets them quickly scan all their key metrics with out having to open each report individually. As such when designing a dashboard deciding what gets displayed is critical to providing users with dashboards that help them in their jobs. Create a Dashboard Tab 1.  To create a new dashboard tab click the  Create  item in one of the navigation options on the right.. 2. Select the  Standard Tab  option. Left Side Nav Top Button (with Left Side Nav enabled) Toolbar  You will now see a blank tab. 3.  Search for  Pie  in the Report Search panel on the left. 4.  Drag the report to the top portlet area on your tab, as demonstrated here. 5.  Your chart will now appear on the dashboard tab. 6.  Resize the report by dragging the bottom edge of it downward until the data is easier to read. 7.  Click the  Save  button to save this tab. Type in  Tutorial  as the name of the tab and change the sub category to  Tutorial . 8.  Click  Activate  to save and activate the tab. 9.  The Tutorial tab is now published and ready for day to day use. See  Dashboard  for more information.   Further Information For more information around the creation of Tabs in Yellowfin see the  Dashboard  section of the wiki.