> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://sleekplan.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Add and arrange insights

> Edit an Insights dashboard: add numbers and charts, choose how each one is shown, drag and resize them on the grid, and filter the whole dashboard.

You change a dashboard in **edit mode**. Everything you do there is a draft: you can add, change, move, and remove insights freely, and nothing is saved until you click **Done**. **Cancel** throws the draft away.

If you don't have a dashboard yet, [create one](/help/insights#create-a-dashboard) first.

<Info>
  Editing dashboards needs the **Business** plan or above and the **Owner** or **Admin** role. Members can read shared dashboards but can't change them. See [Insights dashboards](/help/insights).
</Info>

## Start editing

Open the dashboard from [**Insights**](https://app.sleekplan.com/insights) and click **Edit** in the top right. The header now shows the filter button, **Add insight**, **Cancel**, and **Done**. On each insight, a **⋯** menu appears when you hover over it, and a resize handle sits in its bottom-right corner.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/sleekplangmbh/dXgRjnVcNkb3-IvC/images/insights-build-edit-mode.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=dXgRjnVcNkb3-IvC&q=85&s=5c292c8674a4d6e0d030c1e1aa2e6a1f" alt="A dashboard in edit mode with the filter button, Add insight, Cancel, and Done highlighted in the header" width="1440" height="900" data-path="images/insights-build-edit-mode.png" />

On an empty dashboard you can also click **Add insight** in the middle of the page. That starts edit mode for you.

## Add an insight

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the insight editor">
    Click **Add insight** in the header.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Pick a metric">
    Choose what to measure: **New posts**, **Votes**, **Completed posts**, **Time to complete**, **Top posts**, **Page views**, **NPS**, or **CSAT**. A metric your plan doesn't include is marked **· upgrade**. What each metric counts is explained in [Metrics and charts](/help/insights/metrics).

    <img src="https://mintcdn.com/sleekplangmbh/dXgRjnVcNkb3-IvC/images/insights-build-metric-list.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=dXgRjnVcNkb3-IvC&q=85&s=4418ef70633d7eb82277e1dd3b3569cc" alt="The Add insight dialog with the Metric list open, showing New posts, Votes, Completed posts, Time to complete, Top posts, Page views, NPS, and CSAT" width="1440" height="900" data-path="images/insights-build-metric-list.png" />
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose a view">
    Under **View**, choose how to look at the metric:

    * **Number**: one total for the date range, compared with the previous period.
    * **Over time**: a chart with one point per day, week, or month.
    * **Breakdown**: the total split into parts, for example by category or status.

    You only see the views the metric supports. **Top posts** has no views: it's always a list, and you choose **Votes** (**In period** or **All time**) and how many posts to **Show** (5 to 25) instead.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set the details">
    The next fields depend on the view:

    * **Over time**: pick an **Interval**: **Auto**, **Day**, **Week**, or **Month**. **Auto** picks one that suits the date range.
    * **Breakdown**: pick what to **Break down by**, for example **Status**.
    * **Chart**: pick how to draw it. **Over time** offers **Line** and **Columns**. **Breakdown** offers **Bars**, **Donut**, and **Share**.

          <img src="https://mintcdn.com/sleekplangmbh/dXgRjnVcNkb3-IvC/images/insights-build-add-insight.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=dXgRjnVcNkb3-IvC&q=85&s=c5ccd322b90223ada0fabd3aeb181eef" alt="The Add insight dialog set to the Votes metric, the Breakdown view broken down by Status, and the Bars chart, with a generated title of Votes by status" width="1440" height="900" data-path="images/insights-build-add-insight.png" />
  </Step>

  <Step title="Filter it (optional)">
    Use **Category**, **Status**, and **Component** to count only matching posts, for example only bugs. Leave them on **Any** to count everything. A metric only shows the filters it supports.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Give it a title (optional)">
    Leave **Title** empty to use the generated title shown in the field, such as "Votes by status", or type your own.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add it">
    Click **Add insight**. The new insight goes into the first free space on the dashboard that fits it. Move it wherever you like (see below).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Save the dashboard">
    Click **Done** in the header. The dashboard is saved, and everyone who can see it sees the new insight.

    <img src="https://mintcdn.com/sleekplangmbh/dXgRjnVcNkb3-IvC/images/insights-build-new-insight-placed.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=dXgRjnVcNkb3-IvC&q=85&s=58b07998936971030f00d1ff44de0c8b" alt="The saved dashboard with the new Votes by status insight at the bottom, drawn as bars for Under Consideration, Planned, Open, and In Progress, followed by +2 more" width="1440" height="900" data-path="images/insights-build-new-insight-placed.png" />
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Change or remove an insight

In edit mode, hover over the insight and click its **⋯** menu:

* **Edit** opens the same editor with the insight's settings. Change what you need and click **Save**.
* **Remove** takes the insight off the dashboard. The insights below it move up to fill the gap.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/sleekplangmbh/dXgRjnVcNkb3-IvC/images/insights-build-insight-menu.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=dXgRjnVcNkb3-IvC&q=85&s=5ee473ff9dcb231cfa63ab50f05ed7a0" alt="An insight's menu open in edit mode, with Edit and Remove highlighted" width="1440" height="900" data-path="images/insights-build-insight-menu.png" />

As with every change in edit mode, click **Done** to save it.

## Move and resize insights

A dashboard is a grid of 12 columns, and each insight takes up a rectangle on it.

* **Move**: drag an insight to a new spot. Insights in the way are pushed down, and everything moves up to close any gaps.
* **Resize**: drag the handle in the insight's bottom-right corner. A taller bar chart or list shows more rows. Each chart has a minimum size, so it stays readable.

Moving and resizing only works in edit mode, and not in a narrow window: there, insights are stacked in one column.

## Filter the whole dashboard

Dashboard filters narrow every insight on the dashboard at once, for example to look at one category only.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the filters">
    In edit mode, click the filter button (the funnel icon) to the left of **Add insight**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Pick a value">
    Choose **Category**, **Status**, or **Component**, then pick one value. **Component** only appears once your workspace has [components](/help/feedback/components). To remove every filter, choose **Clear all filters**.

    <img src="https://mintcdn.com/sleekplangmbh/dXgRjnVcNkb3-IvC/images/insights-build-dashboard-filters.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=dXgRjnVcNkb3-IvC&q=85&s=4ff7bf5d03e1f9c5318de71bf61a30f8" alt="The dashboard filter menu open on Category, listing All categories and the workspace's categories" width="1440" height="900" data-path="images/insights-build-dashboard-filters.png" />
  </Step>

  <Step title="Save">
    Click **Done**. The active filters now show as tags next to the dashboard's name.
  </Step>
</Steps>

How dashboard filters combine with each insight:

* **The insight's own filter wins.** If the dashboard filters on one category and an insight filters on another, that insight uses its own.
* **Metrics that can't use a filter ignore it.** For example, **Page views**, **NPS**, and **CSAT** can't be filtered by category, status, or component, so they always show all of their data. The filters each metric supports are listed in [Metrics and charts](/help/insights/metrics#metrics-at-a-glance).
* **Filters are saved with the dashboard**, so everyone who opens it sees the filtered numbers. The date range is different: each person picks their own. See [Choose the date range](/help/insights#choose-the-date-range).

## Save or discard your changes

* Click **Done** to save everything you changed in edit mode.
* Click **Cancel** to throw your changes away. The dashboard goes back to how it was.
* If you try to leave the page with unsaved changes, Sleekplan asks whether to **Discard & leave**.

If two people edit the same dashboard at the same time, the last one to click **Done** wins: their version replaces the other person's changes.

## Next steps

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Metrics and charts" icon="chart-column" href="/help/insights/metrics">
    What each metric counts and how the numbers are calculated.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Insights dashboards" icon="layout-dashboard" href="/help/insights">
    Create dashboards, pick the date range, and decide who sees them.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>
