# 2.1 Creating Your Own Dashboard

## What

FileWave dashboards can be customized. You can start with the included dashboards, then build your own views for the data your team checks most often.

## When/Why

Dashboard elements, also called widgets, can be combined into custom dashboards. You can copy widgets from existing FileWave dashboards or create new widgets directly.

## How

This example creates a new empty dashboard. It starts with a folder because most environments eventually have more than one custom dashboard. After creating the dashboard, use the related copying-widgets article to add content to it.

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