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title: Clip a Lens to a Dashboard
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description: To include the lens in a dashboard, clip it. When you clip the lens, CRM Analytics adds a query to all the open dashboards. If a dashboard isn’t open, CRM Analytics adds the query to a new dashboard in dashboard designer. After you add the query to the designer, you can apply it to a widget in the dashboard. The widget overrides the visualization settings of the lens—the widget determines how to display the results of the query.
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# Clip a Lens to a Dashboard

To include the lens in a dashboard, clip it. When you clip the lens, CRM Analytics adds a query to all the open dashboards. If a dashboard isn’t open, CRM Analytics adds the query to a new dashboard in dashboard designer. After you add the query to the designer, you can apply it to a widget in the dashboard. The widget overrides the visualization settings of the lens—the widget determines how to display the results of the query.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience.</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available with CRM Analytics, which is available for an extra cost in <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, and <strong>Unlimited</strong> Editions. Also available in <strong>Developer</strong> Edition.</td></tr></tbody></table>

1. Open the lens.
2. Click ![Clip to Designer button](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-analytics-bi-264-0-0-production-enus/ec791473-f5b4-4f64-a656-9104f455d966/bi/images/bi/bi_icon_clip_lens.png).
    
    CRM Analytics creates a query, and adds it to the query panel of the dashboard designer.
3. To save the query, save the dashboard.
    
    ![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 Changes to the query properties don’t affect the lens.