Create Your Own Widget from Scratch

If no widget meets your expectations, whether due to the setup or the chart type, you create a your own widget from scratch or modify an existing one.

You can add your custom new widget to an existing custom board or in the process of creating a brand new board.

Steps:

1. Depending on where you want to create a new widget:

   • If you are adding a brand new widget to an existing board - open a custom board.

   • If you want to create a brand new widget along a brand new board:

     1. Click New.

     2. Click Create a board.

2. Click Add widget, then click Build your own widget.
   Widget configuration canvas opens.

3. Name your widget.

4. Click Select metric and specify the basic characteristics of your new widget:

   • Post level

   • Profile level

   • Community

   • Listening

   • Paid

5. Select data sources.

6. Configure additional details.
   The available options are dynamic and depend on your previous selection.

   • visualization type

   • aggregation

   • breakdowns

   • filters
     Filters affect the specific widget only.

7. Click Create widget.
   The widget will apear on your custom board.

You can edit and rename your custom widgets later directly from the board. You can also copy it to another board.

Edit a custom widget

To refine a widget that meets your changing needs better, click the three dots option menu and select on of the option.

You can not only rename and edit a widgets, you can copy it to another board or duplicate it, so you can refine the copy rather than create a new widget version from scratch.

Important notes/ limitations

• Content labels and live paid metrics

• When you build a Paid visualization, Content labels is not available as a filter or breakdown for a subsection of Paid metrics. These metrics are:

  • Reach

  • Frequency

  • Cost per 1000 reach (CPP)

  • Unique clicks (all)

  • Unique CTR (all)

  • Unique link clicks

  • Unique link CTR

  • Cost per unique click (all)

  • Cost per unique link click

• Content labels remains available for stored paid metrics, such as Impressions, Spend, and Clicks.

  If a saved visualization on your board uses a live paid metric together with a Content labels filter or breakdown, that visualization shows an error when you open the board. To resolve the error, edit the visualization and remove the content label or change the metric.