Add widgets to a dashboard
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Widgets smartly format data to provide access to easily consumable data. You add widgets to your team dashboards to gain visibility into the status and trends occurring as you develop your software project.
Each widget provides access to a chart, user-configurable information, or a set of links that open a feature or function. You can add one or more charts or widgets to your dashboard. Up to 200 widgets total. You add several widgets at a time simply by selecting each one. See Manage dashboards to determine the permissions you need to add and remove widgets from a dashboard.
Prerequisites
- You must be a member of a project. If you don't have a project yet, create one.
- If you haven't been added as a project member, get added now.
- Anyone with access to a project, including stakeholders, can view dashboards.
- To add, edit, or manage a team dashboard, you must have Basic access or greater and be added to the team administrator role for the team.
Note
Data displayed within a chart or widget is subject to permissions granted to the signed in user. To learn more, see FAQs on Azure DevOps dashboards, charts, and reports, Access and permissions.
Open a dashboard
All dashboards are associated with a team. You need to be a team administrator, project administrator, or a team member with permissions to modify a dashboard.
Open a web browser, connect to your project, and select Dashboards.
Select the team whose dashboards you want to view. To switch your team focus, see Switch project or team focus.
Select the name of the dashboard to modify it.
For example, here we select to view the Work in Progress dashboard.
If you need to switch to a different project, select the 
Azure DevOps logo to browse all projects.
Add a widget
Select 
to modify a dashboard. Select 
to add a widget to the dashboard.
The widget catalog describes all available widgets, many of which are scoped to the selected team context.
Configure a widget
Most widgets support configuration, which may include specifying the title, setting the widget size, and other widget-specific variables.
To configure a widget, add the widget to a dashboard and then select the 
configure icon.
Once you've configured the widget, you can edit it by opening the actions menu.
Move or delete a widget
To move a widget, you need to enable the dashboard edit mode. To delete a widget, select the delete option provided from the widget's More actions menu.
Just as you have to be a team or project admin to add items to a dashboard, you must have admin permissions to remove items.
Select to modify your dashboard. You can then drag tiles to reorder their sequence on the dashboard.
To remove a widget, select the widget's 
or 
delete icons.
When you're finished with your changes, select 
to exit dashboard editing.
Widget size
Some widgets are pre-sized and can't be changed. Others are configurable through their configuration dialog.
For example, the Chart for work items widget allows you to select an area size ranging from 2 x 2 to 4 x 4 (tiles).
Extensibility and Marketplace widgets
In addition to the widgets described in the Widget catalog, you can:
- Add widgets from the Marketplace.
- Create your own widgets using the Widget REST APIs.
Disabled Marketplace widgets
If your organization owner or project collection administrator disables a marketplace widget, you'll see the following image:
To regain access to it, request your admin to reinstate or reinstall the widget.