Navigate to your ServiceNow Instance and log in

Click to activate the search in Global Navigator

Search "Dashboards" and select "Dashboards" under 'Self Service'

Name your dashboard something that is obvious

Right click in the Grey banner and select 'Save'

Now that the dashboard is saved, select "View Dashboard"

This will bring you to a new, blank dashbaord

Follow the directions on screen, and add a Widget using the Widget Picker

In our example, we're going to select 'Reports'

Click on "Click here to configure this reusable Widget."

OPTIONAL: If you feel like the Global Nav is in your way, you can collapse it by clicking the push pin on the Nav pane

To select how data will feed your Dasboard, click on "Source type". For our example, we're going to use a Table

Search for the Table you're looking to report from

In this example, we're going to use Knowledge Articles, so we will look for and then click on "Knowledge"

Here, we select a type of visual we want to use for our reports. For our example, we're going to use a Pie Chart

We're getting too much information, so let's filter it out by selecting the filter button

Notice that our visual has changed to denote these changes

We don't want to report on *everything* so lets pare down the information to only look at what's actionable. Select the Filter icon to present filter settings

In this example, let's select the 'Valid to' value so we can track upcoming items we're going to need to rework, retire, or renew

Then choose the filter. Since we're using a Date field, we can select from easy to use dates

In our example, we'll use 'Today' making our filter show data that is valid to any data in the future (including today in this example)

This was created as part of a larger work

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Guide on making a simple dashboard in ServiceNow