# Narrative Widget

The Narrative widget allows you to include text or visual data in storied form. Creating Narrative widgets is a great way to display important information or events to your dashboard. You can add a narrative widget to add descriptive explanations to your dashboard about specific data or events. It also comes in handy when creating a report.

**Some Narrative Widget Use Cases Include:**

* Adding non-numerical information to your dashboard.
* Displaying plain text providing information about your data sources or events.
* Explain complex data in a storied form that anyone can understand.

## **How To Add A Narrative Widget To Your Dashboard**

There are several reasons why you need to create a narrative tile. Here are the steps to adding one to your dashboard.

1\. From within your dashboard, click on the **Manage Dashboard** icon at the top-right.

<div align="left"><img src="https://1645770016-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2Fdocumentation%2F-MfmZPY58McglTXeL0Oc%2F-MfmdIvbxuaId9-79Y9C%2F34.jpeg?generation=1627568555241592&#x26;alt=media" alt=""></div>

2\. Under **Widgets**, click on the Narrative icon (circled red).

<div align="left"><img src="https://1645770016-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2Fdocumentation%2F-MfmZPY58McglTXeL0Oc%2F-MfmdIvc8lV9E7xIG_sc%2F35.jpeg?generation=1627568555251365&#x26;alt=media" alt=""></div>

The Narrative Tile creation window should pop up. (This is where you set the specifics you want to display on the table). It’s also where you [edit the widget](https://docs.foxmetrics.com/features/dashboards/dashboard-tiles/editing-a-tile) if you want to change any of its elements.

<div align="left"><img src="https://1645770016-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2Fdocumentation%2F-MfmZPY58McglTXeL0Oc%2F-MfmdIvduMtMH057ASia%2F36.png?generation=1627568555266673&#x26;alt=media" alt=""></div>

## **General Section**

The narrative widget window is not too different from what we’ve discussed under  [creating tiles](https://docs.foxmetrics.com/features/dashboards/dashboard-tiles/creating-a-tile).

The first part is the General, where you enter a **title** and **description** for the widget.&#x20;

* For instance, let’s say you want to explain why there’s a sudden increase in traffic. The title can be “Reason for Sudden increase in web traffic.”
* For the description, enter a detailed description that helps you understand what the tile is all about (Sudden increase in traffic in this case).

## **Configuration**

The configuration section is where you enter the text for the narrative. You can input plain text or copy and paste in already typed text.

![](https://1645770016-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MYei1KeCNQe_6BP24no%2F-Mg5noDeqxt3o7hKKI2z%2F-Mg5sz0mt5DKsTgrzrss%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=cc5d3d3e-be70-49d7-8418-c8cae2fbdf14)

## **Look and feel**

This section allows you to control the size of the narrative tile. There are several predefined sizes you can choose from including ***unset, small, default, default wide, wide small, wide and full width.***

<div align="left"><img src="https://1645770016-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2Fdocumentation%2F-MfmZPY58McglTXeL0Oc%2F-MfmdIven3QlZNoR-ZqB%2F37.png?generation=1627568555259147&#x26;alt=media" alt=""></div>

* We will use default wide.

Now we are all done. Just click **Save** to add the Narrative tile to your dashboard.

<div align="left"><img src="https://1645770016-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2Fdocumentation%2F-MfmZPY58McglTXeL0Oc%2F-MfmdIvftoUqGT4X_1o0%2F38.png?generation=1627568555265380&#x26;alt=media" alt=""></div>

Here’s what our narrative tile looks like based on available data.

![](https://1645770016-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2Fdocumentation%2F-MfmZPY58McglTXeL0Oc%2F-MfmdIvghU-Kd_qhOKuz%2F39.png?generation=1627568555281064\&alt=media)
