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Dash can give an important measure its own number card or show it against a range as a gauge. Describe the measure you want to follow; you can also request either format explicitly. Use a dashboard you own for the editing steps below. On a shared dashboard, Duplicate and edit creates your own editable copy.

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Track a key metric

For example, on a sales dashboard, ask:

Show total sales for the selected reporting period as a number, with a comparison to the previous period.

On a card you can edit, hover over its header and click Edit number, the sliders button. Adjust its Label and Format, including currency, percentages, and decimal places. These menu changes save directly.
Screenshot placeholder: METRIC-01Show a total-sales number card beside Edit number, with its Label and Format controls visible. Keep the reporting period in view.

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Compare periods or a target

Open Edit number and use Compare to:
Choose Previous period or Same period last year. Read the dates above both values to see exactly what is being compared.Changing the dashboard’s reporting period updates both date ranges together.
GIF placeholder: METRIC-02Show a sales number with Previous period enabled. Change the reporting-period variable and show both sets of dates and values updating together.
Period comparisons need the card to use exactly one date-range variable. If the options are unavailable, ask Dash to connect the card to the intended reporting period. These period options are unavailable on Chat cards.
For number and currency metrics, Show change as offers Percent, Amount, or Both. Percentage metrics show the difference in percentage points: moving from 30% to 33% is 3 percentage points. Set An increase is to Good (green) for measures where higher is better, or Bad (red) for measures such as costs or overdue work where lower is better.
Screenshot placeholder: METRIC-03Show an overdue-work metric with Bad (red) selected and a decrease displayed as a favorable change.

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Show performance against a range

A gauge places the current value within colored zones. For example, select an existing completion-rate card with Ask Dash about this card, then ask:

Show this completion rate as a gauge from 0% to 100%, with red below 70%, yellow from 70% to 90%, and green from 90% to 100%.

Review and approve the proposed gauge. Use thresholds that match what your team considers low, acceptable, and good performance.
GIF placeholder: METRIC-04Request the completion-rate gauge and approve it. Show its numeric value, needle, and the three defined zones together.
On an owned dashboard, open Edit gauge. Under Zones, open the first zone to set Starts at, then set each zone’s Ends at and Color. The last zone’s end sets the maximum. Use Add zone or a zone’s remove control to change the number of zones.Enter boundaries in the measure’s underlying units. Percentage values are fractions: 0.7 is 70%, 0.9 is 90%, and 1 is 100%. Each zone must end above its start.
Screenshot placeholder: METRIC-06Show Edit gauge with the first zone open and a 0.7 boundary displayed as 70% on the gauge. Include Starts at, Ends at, and Color.
A gauge’s needle stays within the dial even when the actual value exceeds its range. Read the displayed number as well as the needle. For a number comparison whose earlier value is zero, an ordinary percentage change is unavailable, so the card shows the amount of change.
For other visualizations Dash can create, see Chart cards.