Follow Dashboards and Dashboard Components
If feed tracking is enabled for dashboards, you can view updates and field changes in the Chatter feed.
Required Editions
| Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience |
| Available in: Essentials, Group (View Only), Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To view dashboards: | Run Reports AND access to the dashboard folder |
Only unfiltered data is used to generate alerts.
If you don't see feeds, ask your administrator to enable feed tracking for dashboards.
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To follow a dashboard, click Follow.
In Salesforce Classic, you follow all eligible components individually. You can choose to follow specific dashboard components.
In Lightning Experience, you follow the entire dashboard. If you want to follow a specific dashboard component, switch to Salesforce Classic.
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To follow a specific dashboard component in Salesforce Classic, hover over a component
to display the
menu, and select
Follow this Component.
To clear the hover menu, click an empty part of the screen.
To stop following a component, click and select
Following.