Creating Dashboards Overview

Last updated: June 11, 2026

Dashboards are the primary way users explore, visualize, and share insights in Sisense. Whether you’re building simple KPI overviews or complex, multi-source analytical experiences, the dashboard interface gives you flexible tools to organize data, design compelling visualizations, and tailor the layout to your audience.

This section introduces the core concepts and workflows involved in creating and managing dashboards. It describes exploring existing dashboards, building new ones, adding and configuring widgets, customizing layouts to match your analytical goals, as well as how to control styling and colors, switch data sources, and even combine multiple data models in a single dashboard:

• Exploring Dashboards – Navigate existing dashboards, understand their structure, and discover how users interact with them.

• Creating Dashboards – Build new dashboards from scratch and understand the key elements of dashboard design.

• Adding Widgets to a Dashboard – Learn how to add charts, KPIs, tables, and other visualization types to present your data effectively.

• Managing Widgets – Modify, configure, duplicate, or remove widgets to refine the insights you display.

• Customizing the Dashboard Layout – Arrange widgets, adjust sizing, and design intuitive layouts that guide users through the story your data tells.

• Changing the Dashboard’s Color Palette – Apply consistent branding or improve visual clarity by customizing colors across widgets.

• Changing a Dashboard’s Data Source – Switch the underlying model powering your dashboard without rebuilding it from scratch.

• Creating a Dashboard with Multiple Sources – Combine data from different models to create richer insights and unified views.

Use this section as your guide to building dashboards that are both visually compelling and analytically powerful.