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title: Make Real-Time Decisions with an Input Widget
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description: Perform speculative analysis to assess risk and develop recommendations for your business in real time. Use values from the input widget as a data source, and see its effect on your dashboard metrics without manual calculations.
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# Make Real-Time Decisions with an Input Widget

Perform speculative analysis to assess risk and develop recommendations for your business in real time. Use values from the input widget as a data source, and see its effect on your dashboard metrics without manual calculations.

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) Make Real-Time Decisions with an Input Widget (English Only)](https://salesforce.vidyard.com/watch/xAQMpvMeZbzcYQJ3tXvC1v)

![Adding the Input widget to a dashboard](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_input_widget.png)

- **[Create an Input Widget](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.bi_dashboard_input_widgets_create.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Speculative analysis starts by adding an input widget to the dashboard that captures numeric values to interact with other dashboard widgets.
- **[Change the Layout and Style of an Input Widget](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.bi_dashboard_input_widgets_edit.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Fine-tune the input widget layout, and stylize its content for the dashboard. Input style options depend upon the selected input type.
- **[Add the Input Widget to Formula Queries](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=analytics.bi_explorer_dynamic_input_query.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Retrieving values from the input widget to use in a formula can be done through the UI. You can add the input widget as a column in a query or with SAQL. The input widget works as a data source by collecting user inputs for use in other parts of the dashboard.