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title: "Adding Widget Cards to Dashboards | ThreatConnect"
slug: "adding-widget-cards-to-dashboards"
description: "This article describes how to add Widget cards to custom dashboards."
updated: 2024-08-09T20:25:15Z
published: 2024-08-09T20:25:15Z
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# Adding Widget Cards to Dashboards

## Overview

Dashboards in ThreatConnect® display their content via a series of cards. 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. There are three types of cards you can add to a dashboard: **Widget**, **Metric**, and **Query**.

Widget cards 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 [**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.

## Before You Start

### User Roles

- To add Widget cards 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 Widget cards 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 Widget cards 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).

## Adding a Widget Card

Follow these steps to add a Widget card to a custom 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**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 cards, scroll down the **Widget**section.![Figure 1_Adding Widget Cards to Dashboards_7.6.2](https://cdn.document360.io/dfc206c8-1c9f-4725-b74d-a66f83432320/Images/Documentation/Figure%201_Adding%20Widget%20Cards%20to%20Dashboards_7.6.2.png)
4. The selected Widget card will be added to the dashboard automatically, as no further configuration is required for Widget cards. However, you can [adjust the size and position of the card on the dashboard](https://knowledge.threatconnect.com/docs/editing-dashboard-layout), if desired.

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