Visualizing data with dashboards

Dashboards are the visual layer of your work in Smartsheet. They begin as a blank canvas but take shape as you add interactive widgets — the building blocks of a dashboard. They help you summarize and share important aspects such as project status or KPIs with stakeholders in a single place.

You can create a new dashboard or use one of our pre-built template sets to get started. Once you've created a dashboard, you can always make changes to it later. Learn how to Create and edit a Smartsheet dashboard. 

A dashboard also allows you to share information from reports with people who may not otherwise have access. As the dashboard creator, you can control this. For more information about how to configure widgets that pull data from reports, see Control Widget Content When Source Is From a Report.

View a dashboard

Dashboards can be viewed from your computer or from an iOS or Android device.

To view a dashboard in full-screen mode, select the Presentation button in the upper-right corner of the dashboard.

Zoom in or out in a dashboard

You can zoom in or out dashboards created in a wide canvas. The zoom is set to 100% by default, you can change it by selecting the 100% in the toolbar and selecting another value. When another percentage is selected, it replaces the 100%. 

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• Zoom stays the same even if your browser window size changes.
• You can use keyboard shortcuts to zoom in and zoom out.
• This feature is only available for wider canvas dashboards.

Dashboard permission levels

The following table shows what each permission level allows a collaborator on a dashboard to do.

* You must be a paid Smartsheet plan user to use this feature.