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title: Create a dashboard
slug: content-marketing-platform/docs/create-a-dashboard
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createdAt: 2026-07-20T15:44:31.227Z
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Use Efficiency Dashboards in Optimizely Content Marketing Platform (CMP) to create dashboards to track team performance or identify bottlenecks.

1. Go to **Efficiency Dashboards** and click **Create Dashboard**.
2. Enter a **Name** and click **Create**.

   ![Create dashboard.png](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/BrbvVORKJ5iIeSMZye5kI/RsPT1X2fAnD1RBFzPxCOX-20260720-145924.png)
3. Click **Add Card** to add a card.

   ![Add Card.png](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/BrbvVORKJ5iIeSMZye5kI/eB3UIsmyHkeb0dVffezhr-20260720-145924.png)
4. Select your card type. See [Card types](docId\:ZAMbeRsJ1x2srhVSRb5iV) for details on each type. For example, click **Tasks Completed** to see how many tasks your team completed in Q1 2025.

   ![Card types.png](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/BrbvVORKJ5iIeSMZye5kI/X6blAJR3Rg9f2IU8dxEKc-20260720-145924.png)
5. Enter a **Title** for the chart.

   ![Enter card details.png](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/BrbvVORKJ5iIeSMZye5kI/WEdGKPTpMvUBX36-AL8le-20260720-145924.png)
6. (Optional) Choose your **Chart Type**: **Column** (default), **Bar**, **Line**, or **Pie**.
7. Choose what to **Group by**. For example, you could group by **Campaign** to see how many tasks your team completed for each campaign.
8. (Optional) Choose what to **Pivot by** if you want to split your data. For example, you can group by workflow, then pivot by owner to see trends for individuals. If you do not want to split the data, skip this step.
9. Add any **Filters** for your data as desired.
   As you make changes to any field, the chart must update. Click to see the changes.

   ![Make changes.png](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/BrbvVORKJ5iIeSMZye5kI/KRkVCNHDdPnBzZlNAnLqw-20260720-145924.png)
10. Click **Save** when finished. This adds the card to your dashboard.

    ![Saved card.png](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/BrbvVORKJ5iIeSMZye5kI/8QFUGIMKpVBS0yGdI0KSU-20260720-145924.png)
11. Click **More (...) > Export as PDF** to download the entire dashboard as a PDF. The exported PDF includes all cards on the dashboard exactly as configured, with their current totals, counts, and chart data.

![](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/BrbvVORKJ5iIeSMZye5kI/FYh_j-Bnjwd4Hg6SV6afo_cmp-download-efficiency-dashboards.png)

## Example: Weekly team meeting dashboard

You can create a dashboard for weekly team meetings to track things like monthly tasks, on-time performance, content type lead time, and blogs by region.

![Weekly Team Meeting.png](https://api.archbee.com/api/optimize/BrbvVORKJ5iIeSMZye5kI/0AaSY9TPFg99mtcQ3Jgic-20260720-145924.png)

This dashboard follows these steps:

1. Create a dashboard named *Weekly Team Meeting*\*\*\*.\*\*\*
2. Add a **Tasks by Status** card named *Monthly Task Check*, grouped by **Month**, pivoted by **Status**, and filtered by **Creation date Is after 0 Years ago**.
3. Add a **On-Time Performance** card to track tasks for a workflow, event, or campaign. In this example, the card is named *On Time Performance Opticon*), grouped by **Workflow**, and filtered by **Workflow Is one of** with tasks related to Opticon (such as **Opticon Email Workflow** and **Opticon Breakout - Socials**).
4. Add a **Lead Time** card named *Content Type Lead Time*, grouped by **Quarter**, and pivoted by **Content type**. See the [example in Create cards](docId\:ZAMbeRsJ1x2srhVSRb5iV) for information on configuring this card.
5. Add a **Tasks Completed** card named *Blogs by Region*, grouped by **Region** and filtered by Status Is Completed **and** Creation date Is after 0 Years ago. See the [tasks by region example](docId\:ZAMbeRsJ1x2srhVSRb5iV) to configure a similar card.