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title: Managing a Dashboard
description: "This chapter describes the actions you can perform on a dashboard. ## Permissions [Channels](https://lucidum.io/docs/channels/) control your permissions. - If a dashboard is in a channel where you have read-only privileges, you will have read-only privileges for the member dashboards. -…"
url: "https://lucidum.io/docs/managing-a-dashboard/"
updated: "2025-11-05"
category: Dashboards
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# Managing a Dashboard

This chapter describes the actions you can perform on a dashboard.

## Permissions

[Channels](https://lucidum.io/docs/channels/) control your permissions.

- If a dashboard is in a channel where you have read-only privileges, you will have read-only privileges for the member dashboards.
- If a dashboard is in a channel where you have read-write privileges, you will have read-write privileges for the member dashboards.

You can edit:

- Dashboards you create. For details on creating a dashboard, see the chapter on [Creating a Dashboard](https://lucidum.io/docs/creating-a-dashboard/).
- Dashboards that you import via JSON file. For details on exporting and importing dashboards, see the chapter on [Exporting and Importing a Dashboard](https://lucidum.io/docs/exporting-and-importing-a-dashboard/).
- Dashboards that you have copied to a channel where you have read-write privileges. For details, see the section in the chapter on [Copying a Dashboard](https://lucidum.io/docs/managing-a-dashboard/#copying_a_dashboard).

## Editing the Layout of a Dashboard

By default, when you save a dashboard, Lucidum locks the dashboard layout. When a dashboard is locked, you cannot change the layout of the dashboard.

When a dashboard is unlocked, you can:

- change the position of the charts in the dashboard
- change the size of each chart in the dashboard

To unlock and lock a dashboard:

1. Log in to your Lucidum system.
2. In the left menu, click **Dashboards.**
3. In the **Channel**pane, click the channel where the dashboard lives.
4. In the right pane, find the dashboard you want to edit. Click the dashboard name.
5. Lucidum loads the dashboard.

   ![dashboards_edit_layout_updated.png](https://lucidum.cloud/docs/dashboards_edit_layout_updated.png)
6. In the dashboard page, click the **Modify Chart Layout**(lock) icon.

   - To resize a chart, click and hold while dragging the drag-bar in the lower-right corner.
   - To move a chart, click and hold under the chart title and drag the chart to its new position.
7. To save your changes, click the click the **Modify Chart Layout**(lock) icon again.

## Creating a Global Filter

A global filter is a parent filter that is applied to all queries and all charts in a specific Dashboard.

1. To create a global filter:
2. [Open the dashboard](https://lucidum.io/docs/viewing-a-dashboard/#viewing_a_dashboard) you want to add a filter to.

   ![global_filter_22.0_1.png](https://lucidum.cloud/docs/global_filter_22.0_1.png)
3. Click on the **Refine Scope**(funnel) button.
4. In the **Build a Query**page, [create a query](https://lucidum.io/docs/creating-queries-2/#creating-a-query-from-the-query-button) as you normally would.

   ![global_filter_query_updated.png](https://lucidum.cloud/docs/global_filter_query_updated.png)
5. Click **Apply**to apply the query to all charts in the current dashboard.
6. The new filter appears to the left of the **Refine Scope**button.
7. The new filter is applied to all the charts and queries in the dashboard.

   ![global_filter_22.0_2.png](https://lucidum.cloud/docs/dashboards_apply_global_filter_updated.png)
8. In our example, we created a query that filtered assets by the Country Code match United States. Notice how the value in the “Workstations” chart, the “Servers & VMn” chart, and the Containers & Microservices chart has changed after we applied the global filter. This is because all queries and charts include only assets with the Country Name “United States”.

## Choosing a Default Dashboard

If you have not pinned a dashboard as the default dashboard, the [Home page](https://lucidum.io/docs/introduction-to-getting-started-with-lucidum/#home_page) appears.

After you pin a dashboard, the pinned dashboard appears upon log in.

You do not have to have read-write permissions to set a dashboard as your default. You need only read permissions for that dashboard.

To change the default dashboard:

1. Log in to your Lucidum system.
2. In the left menu, click **Dashboards.**
3. In the **Channel**pane, click the channel where the dashboard lives.
4. In the right pane, find the dashboard you want to set as default
5. Click on its **Pin**(push-pin) icon. The pin icon becomes solid, and the pinned dashboard moves to the top of the list of dashboards in the channel.
6. The selected dashboard now appears after login and in the **Home**page.

## Editing the Name and Description of a Dashboard

To change the name of a dashboard:

1. Log in to your Lucidum system.
2. In the left menu, click **Dashboards.**
3. In the **Channel**pane, click the channel where the dashboard lives.
4. In the right pane, find the dashboard you want to edit. Click its **Settings** (gear) icon.
5. The **Edit Dashboard Settings** page appears.

   ![edit_dashboard_settings.png](https://lucidum.cloud/docs/edit_dashboard_settings.png)
6. You can edit one or more of the following settings:

   - ***Dashboard Name***. If you have read-write access to this dashboard, you can edit its name.
   - ***Channel***. You can move this dashboard to any channel where you have read-write access. To do so, select a channel in this field.
   - ***Description***. If you have read-write access to this dashboard, you can edit its description.

## Changing the Channel for Dashboard

To move a dashboard to another channel:

1. Log in to your Lucidum system.
2. In the left menu, click **Dashboards.**
3. In the **Channel**pane, click the channel where the dashboard lives.
4. In the right pane, find the dashboard you want to edit. Click its **Settings** (gear) icon.
5. The **Edit Dashboard Settings** page appears.

   ![edit_dashboard_settings.png](https://lucidum.cloud/docs/edit_dashboard_settings.png)
6. You can edit one or more of the following settings:

   - ***Dashboard Name***. If you have read-write access to this dashboard, you can edit its name.
   - ***Channel***. You can move this dashboard to any channel where you have read-write access. To do so, select a channel in this field.
   - ***Description***. If you have read-write access to this dashboard, you can edit its description.

## Deleting a Dashboard

You must have read-write access to a dashboard to delete it.

To delete a dashboard:

1. Log in to your Lucidum system.
2. In the left menu, click **Dashboards.**
3. In the **Channel**pane, click the channel where the dashboard lives.
4. In the right pane, find the dashboard you want to edit. Click its **Delete**(trash can ) icon.
5. When prompted, click the **Delete** button.

## Forwarding a Dashboard to Other Users

To allow other users to view a dashboard that you have access to, you can forward the dashboard. You must have read-write access to forward a dashboard to another user.

To forward a dashboard:

1. Log in to your Lucidum system.
2. In the left menu, click **Dashboards.**
3. In the **Channel**pane, click the channel where the dashboard lives.
4. In the right pane, find the dashboard you want to edit. Click its **Forward**(envelope) icon.
5. The **Forward This Dashboard** page appears.
6. In the **Forward This Dashboard** page, select the user to forward the dashboard to.

   ![forward_this_dashboard.png](https://lucidum.cloud/docs/forward_this_dashboard.png)
7. When that user logs in, the Channels page will include a new entry under “My Channels”. The new channel will be labeled “Shared By <user name>”. Inside that folder is the dashboard, with “_copy” appended to its name.
8. The user has read-write privileges for the copy of the forwarded dashboard.

## Copying a Dashboard

If you want to edit a dashboard or use it as a template, you can copy a dashboard to a channel where you have read-write permissions. However, you need only read permissions to copy a dashboard:

1. Log in to your Lucidum system.
2. In the left menu, click **Dashboards.**
3. In the **Channel**pane, click the channel where the dashboard lives.
4. In the right pane, find the dashboard you want to edit. Click its **Clone**(pages) icon.
5. The **Clone This Dashboard** page appears.

   ![clone_this_dashboard.png](https://lucidum.cloud/docs/clone_this_dashboard.png)
6. In the **Clone This Dashboard** page, select a channel to store the cloned dashboard.
7. The cloned dashboard appears in that channel, with “_copy” appended to its name.