# Edit a Widget

## Overview <a href="#overview" id="overview"></a>

This guide explains how to edit widgets in Fusion to better align with your data visualization needs. Editing a widget allows you to customize its appearance, data source, and settings, ensuring it delivers the most relevant insights for your dashboard.

By understanding how to edit widgets effectively, you can:

* Tailor widgets to highlight specific metrics or data points.
* Adjust visualizations to align with team or project goals.
* Ensure your dashboards remain dynamic and up-to-date.

## Getting Here <a href="#getting-here" id="getting-here"></a>

To edit widgets embedded in a dashboard, use must first **Edit** the dashboard.

<i class="fa-triangle-exclamation">:triangle-exclamation:</i> To reduce the risk of accidentally editing a dashboard, you can use the **Open** option instead of the **Edit** option described below.

<i class="fa-hexagon-exclamation">:hexagon-exclamation:</i> Changes made to dashboards in edit mode take effect immediately. There is no SAVE button or UNDO option.

To edit a dashboard, use the following steps.

1. From the main menu, navigate to **Dashboards > All**.
2. Click the **row options** icon <i class="fa-circle-ellipsis">:circle-ellipsis:</i> at the beginning of the row that includes the custom dashboard.
3. Click **Edit**.\
   At the top of the page, an unlock button <i class="fa-unlock">:unlock:</i> displays, indicating the dashboard is in Edit mode. You can click this button to exit edit mode.

## Edit a Widget <a href="#edit-a-widget" id="edit-a-widget"></a>

To edit a widget, hover over the right corner of the widget container; a menu of icons appears.

The gear (5) ( <i class="fa-gear">:gear:</i> ) icon link to the **Widget Settings** page and the widget's current configuration settings.

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In this example widget, the widget's settings display in the image below.

![](/files/a0dcG8SwoGFp1admmHsB)

Make changes to the options, and then click **SAVE**, or click **CANCEL**.


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