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Dashboards provide a way to combine data from different areas in a single place. The data is formatted to be easier to understand to provide quick insights. You can use the dashboard components for more in-depth information about the records.
After you design a dashboard, you can you can perform various actions on the dashboard and its components.
In the Navigation Pane, click Workplace. Then, under My Work, click Dashboards.
In the Dashboard list, click the name of the dashboard that you want to open.
Click the category area of the chart in which you want to drill down further to see lower level data.
In the shortcut menu, click Select Field, and then click the field by which you want to group the category.
For example, you are viewing a chart that shows opportunities by potential customers. You want to drill down to see the opportunities for one potential customer, grouped by probability. Click the potential customer on the chart, click Select Field, and then click Probability. The chart now shows the opportunities for this customer with the probability of each opportunity.
Click the corresponding icon for a chart type that you want use for viewing the data.
Click OK.
You can drill down even further on the resulting chart from the drill down on a chart.