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description: Use dashboard components to manage and reuse groups of charts, tables, filters, text, and more in multiple dashboards.
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# Create and Reuse Dashboard Components

Use dashboard components to manage and reuse groups of charts, tables, filters, text, and more in multiple dashboards.

### Required Editions

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Watch a Demo: [![Watch Video Demo](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-analytics-bi-264-0-0-production-enus/ec791473-f5b4-4f64-a656-9104f455d966/resources-global/_corporate/images/play_btn.png) Save Time Creating and Managing Dashboards with Reusable Components (English Only)](https://salesforce.vidyard.com/watch/hx8xGYDVf8odMRhmAmkGvy)

1. To create a dashboard component, drop a component widget (![Component widget icon](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-analytics-bi-264-0-0-production-enus/ec791473-f5b4-4f64-a656-9104f455d966/bi/images/bi/bi_dashboard_component_widget.png)) onto a dashboard.
2. Click the component. You can create a new component, or use an existing one.
    
    When you save a component, you can use it in other dashboards as much as you want.
    
    ![Tip](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-analytics-bi-264-0-0-production-enus/ec791473-f5b4-4f64-a656-9104f455d966/images/icon_tip.png)
    
    Tip If your component contains multiple pages, you can select which page to show as the default initial page of the component.
    
    ![Note](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-analytics-bi-264-0-0-production-enus/ec791473-f5b4-4f64-a656-9104f455d966/images/icon_note.png)
    
    Note Layouts aren’t supported in dashboard components.

#### See Also

- [Manage Global Filters in Dashboard Components](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.bi_dashboard_components_global_filters.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Global filters let you apply the same filter to multiple queries in a dashboard, or components in a dashboard.")
- [Manage Datasets in Dashboard Components](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.bi_dashboard_components_manage_datasets.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "You can control whether components inherit data source linking from the dashboard in which the component is created.")