> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://cubed3-mngr-dashboard-grid-container-widget-docs.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Widgets

> Building blocks for dashboards — charts, text, controls, AI summaries, and layout elements that you arrange on the canvas to tell your data story.

Widgets are the building blocks of a dashboard. Each tile placed on the canvas in the [dashboard builder][ref-workbooks] is a widget — a chart, a block of text, a control that viewers interact with, an AI-generated summary, or a layout element such as a spacer or divider. Combine them to assemble polished, interactive views of your data.

## Widget types

The dashboard builder supports the following widget types:

* [Charts](/docs/explore-analyze/dashboards/widgets/charts) — Visualize reports from your workbook
* [Text](/docs/explore-analyze/dashboards/widgets/text) — Add titles, descriptions, and rich formatting in Markdown
* [Controls](/docs/explore-analyze/dashboards/widgets/controls) — Let viewers filter the data or switch the time granularity
* [AI summary](/docs/explore-analyze/dashboards/widgets/ai-summary) — Generate narrative summaries of dashboard data on demand
* [Spacer & Divider](/docs/explore-analyze/dashboards/widgets/layout) — Non-data layout elements for whitespace and section breaks (in preview)
* [Grid container](/docs/explore-analyze/dashboards/widgets/container) — Group widgets into a nested grid to arrange, move, and resize them together (in preview)

## Adding widgets

Add widgets from the toolbar at the top of the dashboard builder: pick reports from the **Charts** picker to add charts, use the **Add Widgets** menu for text, AI summaries, layout elements, and grid containers, or add a **Filter** or **Time Granularity** control from the **Add Controls** group.

Each toolbar item can be added in two ways:

* **Click** it to drop the widget into the first open spot on the canvas.
* **Drag** it from the toolbar onto the canvas to place it exactly where you want. As you drag, a full-size placeholder previews the widget's footprint and the surrounding widgets reflow to open a slot; release to drop it there. Dragging is especially handy on dense dashboards, where clicking would otherwise place the new widget far down the page.

<Warning>
  Dragging a toolbar item to place it exactly (drag-to-place) is currently in preview, and the behavior may still change. Reach out to the [Cube support team](/admin/account-billing/support) to activate it for your account. Clicking to add a widget is available to everyone.
</Warning>

## Arranging widgets

Drag any widget to move it, and use the handle in its bottom-right corner to resize it — the surrounding widgets shift to make room.

<Warning>
  Selecting multiple widgets and moving or deleting them as a group is currently in preview, and the behavior may still change. Reach out to the [Cube support team](/admin/account-billing/support) to activate it for your account.
</Warning>

To work with several widgets at once, select them first:

* **Click** a widget to select it.
* **Shift-click** to add widgets to, or remove them from, the selection.
* **Drag a marquee** — press on any empty part of the canvas and drag a rectangle over the widgets you want; every widget it touches is selected.

With a selection in place:

* **Move the group** — drag any selected widget and the whole selection moves together, keeping its relative arrangement.
* **Delete the group** — press **Delete** or **Backspace** to remove every selected widget at once.

[ref-workbooks]: /docs/explore-analyze/workbooks