Dashboard layouts are comprised of one or more tabs. A tab can be expanded or collapsed. Each tab can contain one or more sections.
Note
All the default layouts, except the 4-Column Overview Dashboard layout and the 3-Column Overview Dashboard layout, have a single tab and a single section. You cannot add or delete a tab or a section in a dashboard by using the Dashboard designer. If you want to have multiple tabs or sections in your dashboard, export the dashboard, customize it, and import it back into Microsoft Dynamics CRM. For more information, see Microsoft Dynamics CRM Software Development Kit documentation.
Select one of the six default layouts in order to create your dashboard:
3-Column Regular Dashboard. This has one tab and one section. This layout can accommodate components across three columns.
3-Column Multi-Focused Dashboard. This has one tab and one section. This layout can accommodate components across three columns. Use this layout to draw focus on specific components.
4-Column Overview Dashboard. This has two tabs and two sections. You can expand or collapse each of the tabs in the dashboard. This layout can accommodate components across four columns. In this layout, the section in the bottom row spans across four columns, allowing this column to be used to insert a list of records that has several columns (fields), or to insert a horizontal chart.
2-Column Regular Dashboard. This has one tab and one section. This layout can accommodate components across two columns.
3-Column Overview Dashboard. This has two tabs and two sections. You can expand or collapse each of the tabs in the dashboard. This layout can accommodate components across three columns. In this layout, the column in the bottom row spans across three columns, allowing this column to be used to insert a list of records that has several columns (fields), or to insert a horizontal chart.
3-Column Focused Dashboard. This has one tab and one section. It accommodates components across three columns.
Note
By default for any layout, you can only add up to six components. This limit can be changed.
In any layout, you can increase or decrease the height or width of a component only up to a limit:
You can decrease the width of a component to a minimum of one column.
You can decrease the height of a component to a minimum of six rows.
You can increase the width of a component to the number of columns in that layout. For example, if you are using the 3-Column Regular Dashboard, you can increase the width of a component up to three columns (by two more columns).
You can increase the height of a component to a maximum of 250 rows.