> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.unify.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Live dashboards

> Tiles and layouts your assistant builds on request

A **dashboard** is a grid of **tiles** — individual live views — that your
assistant composes for you. Ask for a chart and you get a tile; ask for "a
board with our key numbers" and you get a dashboard arranged from several.

## Asking for one

Describe the view, not the configuration:

> "Build me a dashboard for the repairs team: open work orders by priority,
> a chart of completions per week, and the average time-to-fix as a big
> number up top."

Your assistant creates the tiles, sizes and arranges them on a 12-column
grid, and shares the result. Refinements work the same way — "make the
trend chart wider", "add a tile for overdue items", "retitle it Repairs
Standup".

## Tiles can be anything

There's no fixed menu of widget types. A tile is whatever presents the data
best:

* **Charts** — bar, line, scatter, histogram, or anything more exotic the
  data calls for.
* **Tables** — sortable, styled, as compact or detailed as you like.
* **KPI cards** — single big numbers with context.
* **Custom views** — maps, timelines, progress boards; if it can render in
  a browser, it can be a tile.

## Live by design

The best tiles are **live**: instead of baking numbers in, a tile is wired
to [data tables](/canvas/data) and fetches fresh values every time it's
viewed. Tiles with live wiring show a **Live** badge and a per-tile
**Refresh data** button.

That's what makes the canvas a monitoring surface rather than a report
archive: a scheduled task appends today's rows to a table, and every tile
built on that table is already up to date the next time you look.

## The Dashboards pane

The **Dashboards** tab on your assistant's page is the viewer for
everything visual it has built — in the Console's words, *"live tiles and
reports your teammate builds for you, on request."* Where the
[Data pane](/canvas/data) shows the raw tables, this pane shows the views
on top of them.

**What it's for:**

* **Your standing views, in one place.** Every dashboard and standalone
  tile your assistant has built for you, ready to revisit — the morning
  KPI board, the API monitor, last quarter's analysis.
* **A live monitoring surface.** Data-bound tiles fetch fresh values when
  viewed, so the pane doubles as your operations screen — glance rather
  than ask.
* **The handoff point.** Pop any view into its own tab for a shareable
  link, or download tiles when you need to take a chart elsewhere.

**How to use it:**

1. **Pick a view.** The picker at the top switches between everything saved
   for this assistant, in two groups: **Dashboards** (composed boards) and
   **Tiles** (standalone views that aren't part of any board). Search by
   title when the collection grows.
2. **Read the summary card.** Each dashboard opens with its description,
   tile count, and last-updated time — plus **Open in new tab** for a
   full-screen, shareable version and **Download** to grab all tiles as a
   bundle.
3. **Work the tiles.** Tiles are laid out on the dashboard's grid; each
   collapses and expands individually (or all at once from the toolbar).
   Tiles wired to live data carry a **Live** badge and their own
   **Refresh data** button; every tile can be downloaded or popped out
   into its own tab.
4. **Let it keep itself fresh.** While your assistant is actively working,
   the pane polls automatically — a **Live** indicator and "Updated…"
   timestamp in the footer show you're seeing current state. A refresh
   button re-pulls everything on demand.

If the pane says *"No dashboards yet — ask your teammate to build a view
when there is data to track"*, that's exactly the right instruction — this
pane only ever displays; [creating and changing views happens in
chat](/canvas/dashboards#asking-for-one).

## Sharing

Every tile and dashboard has its own **link** — pop it out and the URL in
your browser is shareable. Send a dashboard link to a colleague and they see
the same live views, no Console tour required. Dashboards can also live in a
[team's shared pool](/teams/shared-context), so a whole team works from the
same board — a standup dashboard the entire repairs patch checks each
morning, for example.

## Changing and removing

Like everything else, dashboard management is conversational: "update the
KPI tile to use this quarter's target", "remove the old pipeline chart",
"delete the test dashboard". Tiles and dashboards are independent — removing
a dashboard doesn't destroy its tiles, so views can be recomposed freely.