--- title: "Adding Content to Dashboards" slug: "adding-content-to-dashboards" description: "This article describes how to add Widget, Metric, and Query cards to dashboards." status: "update" updated: 2024-08-09T20:24:39Z published: 2024-08-09T20:24:39Z canonical: "knowledge.threatconnect.com/adding-content-to-dashboards" --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Adding Content to Dashboards ## Overview Dashboards in ThreatConnect® display their content via a series of cards, and there are three types of cards you can add to a dashboard: **[Widget](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/adding-widget-cards-to-dashboards)**, **[Metric](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/adding-metric-cards-to-dashboards)**, and **[Query](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/adding-query-cards-to-dashboards)**. When configuring a dashboard card, you can choose the card’s format, color scheme, and chart type to ensure the card displays data clearly and logically. After you add content to a dashboard, you can use the dashboard to elevate the most important information to yourself, your colleagues, and management with access to ThreatConnect. ## Before You Start ### User Roles - To add content to custom dashboards you created or another user in your Organization shared, your user account can have any [Organization role](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/organization-roles). - To add content to System-level dashboards that are not built-in dashboards, your user account must have a [System role](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/threatconnect-system-roles-and-permissions) of Administrator. ### Prerequisites - To add content to custom dashboards, turn on custom dashboards for your Organization on the **Account Settings** screen (must be an Accounts Administrator, Operations Administrator, or System Administrator to perform this action). ## Dashboard Card Types There are three types of cards you can add to a dashboard: [Widget](/docs/adding-content-to-dashboards#widget), [Metric](/docs/adding-content-to-dashboards#metric), and [Query](/docs/adding-content-to-dashboards#query). ### Widget [Widget cards](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/adding-widget-cards-to-dashboards) are predefined dashboard cards that cannot be configured, other than to adjust their size and position on the dashboard. These cards are an effective way to quickly visualize and interact with your data. For example, the **Start an Investigation** Widget card lets you initiate a **[](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/the-browse-screen)** [](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/the-browse-screen)[**Browse** screen](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/the-browse-screen) [](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/the-browse-screen)**[](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/the-browse-screen)** query, while the **Sources** Widget card displays all of your [owners](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/ownership-in-threatconnect) organized by the [Threat and Confidence Ratings](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/setting-indicator-threat-and-confidence-ratings) of their Indicators. ### Metric [Metric cards](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/adding-metric-cards-to-dashboards) can be configured to display the following types of metrics: - **System Metrics**are predefined by ThreatConnect and divided into three categories: - **Activities** provides a graphical representation of changes in activity for selected data types (e.g., Observations, False Positives, Tags, Attributes, Average Indicator Confidence Rating) within the selected owners over a period of time. - **Indicators** provides a graphical representation of the addition of selected Indicator types within the selected owners over a period of time. - **Intelligence** provides a graphical representation of the addition of selected Group types within the selected owners over a period of time. - **User Metrics** are [custom metrics](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/custom-metrics) created by Organization Administrators. - [**Cases Metrics**](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/v1/docs/cases-metrics) provide a graphical representation of nine metrics for [Workflow Cases](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/v1/docs/workflow-cases) in your Organization: **Active Cases**, **Analyst Workload**, **False Positives**, **Mean Time to Detection (MTTD), MTTD Average**, **Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR), MTTR Average**, **Top 10 Case Closing Analyst**, and **Unassigned Cases**. - **Playbooks Metrics** provide a graphical representation of three metrics calculated by the [Playbooks Return on Investment](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/v1/docs/playbooks-return-on-investment) feature for all selected Playbooks: **Playbook Execution Count**, **Playbook Financial Savings**, and **Playbook Hours Saved**. ### Query [Query cards](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/adding-query-cards-to-dashboards) let you display the results of newly created or [saved](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/using-the-advanced-query-filter#saving-tql-queries) queries written in [ThreatConnect Query Language (TQL)](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/v1/docs/threatconnect-query-language-tql). ## Adding Cards to a Dashboard Follow these steps to add cards to a dashboard: 1. Hover over **Dashboard** on the top navigation bar and select an existing dashboard to open or [create a custom dashboard](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/creating-dashboards). 2. Click **Add![Plus icon_Gray](https://cdn.document360.io/dfc206c8-1c9f-4725-b74d-a66f83432320/Images/Documentation/Plus%20icon_Gray.png)**at the upper-right corner of the dashboard, or click **Add Your First Card** in the middle of the dashboard if no cards have been added to it. 3. On the **Details** step of the **Add New Card** drawer (Figure 1), enter a title for the card, and then select a card from the **Widget**, **Metric**, or **Query** section. If you do not enter a title for the card before selecting it, the name of the selected card (e.g., **My Recent History**) will be set as the card’s title. NoteTo view a complete list of Widget and Metric cards, scroll down the **Widget** and **Metric** sections, respectively.![Figure 1_Adding Content to Dashboards_7.6.2](https://cdn.document360.io/dfc206c8-1c9f-4725-b74d-a66f83432320/Images/Documentation/Figure%201_Adding%20Content%20to%20Dashboards_7.6.2.png) 4. If you selected a [Widget](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/adding-widget-cards-to-dashboards) card, it will be added to the dashboard automatically and no further configuration will be required. If you selected a [Metric](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/adding-metric-cards-to-dashboards) or [Query](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/adding-query-cards-to-dashboards) card, you will proceed to the **Query** step of the **Add New Card** drawer automatically. On this step, configure the data to display on the card. Then click **NEXT** at the top right of the drawer to proceed to the **Options** step. 5. On the **Options** step of the **Add New Card** drawer for [Metric](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/adding-metric-cards-to-dashboards) and [Query](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/adding-query-cards-to-dashboards) cards, configure the card’s appearance. Then click **SAVE** at the top right of the drawer to add the card to the dashboard. Repeat this process for each card you want to add to a dashboard. --- *ThreatConnect® is a registered trademark of ThreatConnect, Inc.* 20044-04 v.16.A