Adding and arranging dashboard cards

A custom dashboard is just a grid of cards, and you build it by adding cards from a palette and dragging them into place. This guide covers how to enter edit mode, add cards (one at a time or several at once), move and resize them, tweak each card's settings, and use spacers and separators to tidy up the layout.

Table of contents

• Enter edit mode
• Add a card from the palette
• Add several statistics or graphs at once
• Move cards around
• Resize a card
• Change a card's settings
• Spacers and separators
• Save your changes
• Related articles

Enter edit mode

Open Dashboards from the left menu, pick the dashboard you want to change from the switcher at the top, and click Edit (the pencil button in the header). The page switches into the builder: a card palette appears at the top, and every card gets a small toolbar and a drag handle.

To create a brand-new empty dashboard instead, click New in the header and you'll start in edit mode with a blank grid.

You need the manage dashboards permission to see the Edit and New buttons. Members without it can view dashboards that are shared with them, but not build or change them.

Add a card from the palette

The palette is the Add a card strip at the top of the builder. Every card type has its own button with an icon and a name. Click a button and that card drops onto the grid. Because the palette is sticky and the new card lands at the end, the page scrolls the new card into view so you can see what you added.

Each palette button also shows a small count badge once you've placed one or more of that card type, so you can see at a glance how many you already have on the dashboard. There's no hard limit on how many cards a single dashboard can hold - add as many as the layout needs.

Some cards only appear in the palette if your plan or role can use them. A queue card needs the print queue, a maintenance card needs the maintenance feature, and the classroom cards are geared to school accounts. If you don't see a card you expected, it's usually because the underlying feature isn't on your plan.

Add several statistics or graphs at once

Statistic tiles and graphs come in bulk. Clicking Statistics or Graphs in the palette opens a picker where you can tick as many metrics or graphs as you want and add them all in one go, rather than adding them one at a time and configuring each separately.

This is the fastest way to lay down a row of KPI tiles - jobs, success rate, print time, filament used - or a set of trend graphs. You can still fine-tune each one afterwards from its settings.

Move cards around

In edit mode every card has a drag grip (the vertical dots, labelled "Drag to move"). Grab a card by the grip and drop it where you want it. The order you set is the order everyone sees. Buttons, inputs and the card's own toolbar are excluded from dragging, so you can click those without accidentally picking the card up.

How cards flow depends on the layout mode. In fluid layout they reflow to fit the screen; in rows layout you decide which cards share each line. The fluid vs rows guide explains the difference.

Resize a card

Hover a card in edit mode and a small toolbar appears with resize controls:

• Wider and narrower (the plus and minus buttons) change the card's width. Width is measured in grid columns - a dashboard is 12 columns wide by default, so a card set to 6 columns takes up half the row, and 12 fills the whole width.
• Taller and shorter (the up and down chevrons) change the card's height, which is handy for lists and tables where you want to show more or fewer rows without scrolling inside the card.

Resize until each card shows just the right amount of detail. A stat tile can be small, while a live printer status or queue card usually wants to be wide.

Change a card's settings

Click the settings button (the sliders icon) on a card's toolbar to open its inline settings panel just below the card. What you can change depends on the card:

• Most cards let you set a card title (leave it blank to use the default).
• Statistic tiles let you pick the metric, choose an icon, and set optional colour thresholds so the number turns colour when it crosses a value you choose.
• Queue and print-history cards let you switch between a compact list and a full table, set how many items to show, and filter to your own items or to specific queue or printer groups.
• Graphs let you pick the graph and its scope.

Close the settings panel with the small x in its corner. To remove a card entirely, click the trash button on its toolbar.

Spacers and separators

Two special cards exist purely to shape the layout, and carry no data:

• A spacer adds empty space, useful for pushing a group of cards apart or nudging a card onto the next line.
• A separator is a full-width divider line. Give it a title and it doubles as a section heading, so you can break a long dashboard into labelled sections like "Live now" and "This week".

Both always span the full width. In rows layout they each sit on their own row, so a divider always cleanly separates the rows above and below it.

Save your changes

Nothing is live until you save. Click Save in the header to publish your changes to everyone the dashboard is shared with. Cancel or Back discards your edits and returns to the normal view. As you build, the dashboard previews your changes in place, so what you see in the builder is what viewers will get.

Related articles

• Custom dashboards: build your own fleet overview
• Fluid vs rows: dashboard layouts explained
• Dashboard card types explained
• Managing dashboards: plan limits, sharing and permissions

Updated on: 11/07/2026