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title: Creating a Dashboard
description: How to create, configure, and delete dashboards, and how to restore a soft-deleted dashboard.
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# Creating a Dashboard

Dashboards are fully customisable collections of [tiles](dashboard-tiles) that bring together data from multiple modules — news, time series, geography, surveys, entities, and more — on a single screen. This article explains how to create a new dashboard, which templates are available, how to delete one, and how to recover it afterwards.

Navigate to [Dashboards]({APP_HOST}/dashboards) from the main menu to get started.

## Creating a New Dashboard

Click the **+ Create** button at the top of the [Dashboards]({APP_HOST}/dashboards) page. A dialog opens with two groups of options:

### Starting from Scratch

| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| **Empty** | Creates a blank dashboard. You can add tiles manually after creation. |
| **Copy** | Duplicates an existing dashboard — select one from the dropdown list. The new dashboard inherits all tiles and their configuration. |
| **Generate with AI** | Describe what you want in plain language and the AI assistant will generate a dashboard for you automatically. |

### Starting from a Template

Templates set up a pre-configured dashboard tailored to a specific use-case. Each template requires a subscription to the relevant module.

| Template | Requires | What it creates |
|---|---|---|
| **News Topic** | News module | A dashboard pre-loaded with news tiles focused on a specific topic you enter. You can also attach additional [facts](../settings/facts) for context. |
| **Entity** | Entities module | A dashboard centred on a specific entity (person, organisation, place). Search for the entity by name, select the data sources to include, and optionally attach [facts](../settings/facts). |
| **Financial Instrument** | Time Series module | A dashboard tracking a financial instrument. Enter a ticker symbol (e.g. `MSFT`, `BET:OTP`, `EURHUF`, `BTCUSD`, `GOLD`). |
| **Campaign** | Surveys module | A dashboard summarising the results of a survey campaign. Select the campaign from the list. |

## Naming and Saving

After choosing a creation method or template, a confirmation step asks you to:

- **Name** — a required title for the dashboard (up to 128 characters).
- **Description** — an optional description (up to 4 096 characters).

The number of tiles that will be created (for template-based dashboards) is shown as a preview. Click **Create** to save and open the new dashboard.

## Deleting a Dashboard

Dashboards can be deleted from two places:

- **From the list page** — hover over a dashboard card on [Dashboards]({APP_HOST}/dashboards) and click the **Delete** button that appears.
- **From inside a dashboard** — click the **Delete** button in the toolbar at the top of the dashboard page.

Deletion is a **soft delete**: the dashboard is not immediately and permanently removed. You can recover it within the retention period (see below).

## Recovering a Deleted Dashboard

If dashboards have been soft-deleted, a **Deleted dashboards** link appears at the bottom of the [Dashboards]({APP_HOST}/dashboards) page. Click it to open [Dashboards → Deleted dashboards]({APP_HOST}/dashboards/deleted).

From there you can:

- **Restore** — moves the dashboard back to the active list. The dashboard and all its tiles are fully restored.
- **Delete permanently** — removes the dashboard and all its tiles irreversibly.

Use the search box to find a specific dashboard by name if the list is long.