About the map dashboard
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With ArcGIS Explorer Online, you can configure a digital dashboard for your map. The map dashboard allows you to provide information about the features in your map, beyond the symbols used to draw them, in an easy-to-read fashion. The dashboard is displayed to the right of the map. When you open a map that has a configured dashboard, the Dashboard panel is displayed automatically.
Unlike feature pop-up windows that provide a rich user experience for displaying information for a single feature, or queries that show the attributes for multiple features but can be difficult to collate, dashboards allow you to quickly monitor one or more variables in a graphic fashion. The components of the dashboard, gadgets, can graphically summarize information from multiple map layers and attribute fields.
The information displayed in the dashboard is dynamic: it can change based on edits made to features in the map or based on which features in the map are selected. For example, if your map contains a layer of unemployment rate statistics for counties in your state, you might configure the dashboard to include a gadget that displays the unemployment rate for the selected counties. When you select a county, the dashboard shows the unemployment rate of that county.
As you select multiple counties, the average unemployment rate for those counties is shown.
You can decide what is displayed in the dashboard by adding and configuring gadgets. To start working with the dashboard in a new map, click the Dashboard button 
on the Mapping toolbar.
The dashboard is saved as part of your web map, so when you share it, other users are able to see the dashboard information as they interact with the map.