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Organize a dashboard
You can place any panel in any location you want and controls its size. The changes you make impact other users of the dashboard.
Before you begin
- Add two or more panels
- Ensure that you sign in with Editor permissions
To organize a dashboard:
Hover your cursor over the panel, and click-and-drag the panel to its new location.
To resize a panel, click the zoom in (+) and zoom out (-) icons.

Tips and shortcuts
- Click the graph title and in the dropdown menu quickly duplicate the panel.
- Click the colored icon in the legend to change a series color or the y-axis.
- Click series name in the legend to hide series.
- Ctrl/Shift/Meta + click legend name to hide other series.
- Hover your cursor over a panel and press
eto open the panel editor. - Hover your cursor over a panel and press
vto open the panel in full screen view..