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

# Dashboards

> Curate and share polished views of your workbook reports with stakeholders as interactive dashboards.

Dashboards let you select and organize reports from your workbooks into polished, shareable views for your team and stakeholders. Transform your exploratory analysis into production-ready deliverables by choosing which insights to highlight and present.

## Use cases

Dashboards enable you to:

* **Monitor key metrics** – Display critical business indicators that refresh with live data
* **Distribute analysis** – Package your findings into reports for regular distribution
* **Build data tools** – Develop specialized applications powered by your semantic layer
* **Present insights** – Showcase important discoveries in a polished, accessible format

## How it works

In the dashboard builder inside your [workbook][ref-workbooks], select the reports you want to include and arrange them on the canvas alongside other [widgets][ref-widgets] to tell your data story, then publish the dashboard. This gives stakeholders direct access to the insights that matter most, without the complexity of the underlying analysis.

## Linking between dashboards

Dashboards can link to one another. When a table widget shows a dimension that
has [links][ref-dimension-links] defined in the data model, left-clicking a cell
opens a menu with those links: a **drill-in** link (`dashboard:`) navigates to
another dashboard in the same deployment, filtered by the values in the clicked
row, and an **external** link (`url:`) opens a URL. This is how you build
overview → detail flows — click a row in a summary dashboard to jump straight to
a focused dashboard scoped to that row.

Links are declared once on the dimension in the data model (not configured
per-dashboard), so every table that shows that dimension — in dashboards,
workbooks, embedded dashboards, and Explore — offers the same links. A drill-in
link targets a dashboard by its [slug](#dashboard-slug); see [Dimensions →
Links][ref-dimension-links] to define them.

## Dashboard slug

A dashboard can have a **slug** — a short, stable, human-readable identifier
(e.g. `orders-detail`) used to link to it from the data model. Data-model
[dimension links][ref-dimension-links] with a `dashboard:` value reference a
dashboard by its slug to drill into it.

To set it, open the dashboard in the builder, open the **options sidebar**, and
fill the **Slug** field. Slugs are **unique per deployment** and are resolved
within the current deployment, so the same model works across environments. The
dashboard's own URL is unaffected (it stays `publicId`-based).

<Note>
  **There is no required order between the model and the dashboard.** You can
  reference a slug from a `dashboard:` link in the data model before any dashboard
  uses it, or set a dashboard's slug before any link references it — neither
  breaks. A link whose slug doesn't (yet) resolve is simply skipped in the cell
  menu, and starts working as soon as a dashboard in the deployment claims that
  slug. (If you later clear or change a slug that links still reference, the
  options sidebar warns you to update those links.)
</Note>

## Download as PNG or PDF

Open a published dashboard, click the **More actions** (`⋯`) button in the
header, and choose **Download as PNG** or **Download as PDF**. The file is
named after the dashboard's title.

The download is a server-rendered snapshot — Cube re-opens the dashboard,
waits for every widget to finish rendering, and captures the result. This
can take up to a couple of minutes for large dashboards. Filter or time
grain selections you change in your browser before clicking **Download**
are not applied; the snapshot uses the dashboard's saved state.

Available to users with **Manage** permission on the workbook that owns
the dashboard. The same screenshot mechanism powers PNG/PDF attachments on
[notifications][ref-notifications] sent after a [scheduled
refresh][ref-scheduled-refreshes].

[ref-workbooks]: /docs/explore-analyze/workbooks

[ref-widgets]: /docs/explore-analyze/dashboards/widgets

[ref-dimension-links]: /docs/data-modeling/dimensions#links

[ref-notifications]: /docs/explore-analyze/notifications

[ref-scheduled-refreshes]: /docs/explore-analyze/scheduled-refreshes