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title: "Google Analytics Adds Drag-and-Drop Dashboards"
description: "Google Analytics now has a native dashboard builder with a drag-and-drop canvas and funnel charts, published into Reports without going through Library."
tldr: "Google Analytics has added a dashboard builder: a drag-and-drop grid inside GA carrying scorecards, tables, line, bar, donut and funnel charts, published straight into the Reports left navigation without going through Library. There is no API access, no segments, and a 15-card limit on standard properties. Every published dashboard is shared with the whole property rather than kept to one user."
publishDate: 2026-08-31
author: "Liam Hayward"
---
Google Analytics has a dashboard builder again: a grid canvas inside GA where you drag dimensions and metrics onto cards. Its predecessor, Universal Analytics, had one; GA4 launched without. Google says it is rolling out to all accounts over the coming weeks.

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  <img src="/images/news/google-analytics-native-dashboards/google-analytics-dashboard-editor.webp" alt="The Google Analytics dashboard editor with a table chart selected on a grid canvas, and a Chart editor panel on the right holding dimensions, metrics, chart filter and sorting controls." width="1200" height="687" loading="lazy" />
  <figcaption>Charts are dropped onto the grid and configured in the right-hand panel, which is where dimensions and metrics are assigned. Via: Google.</figcaption>
</figure>

Six card types are supported: scorecards, tables, line, bar, donut and funnel charts. The funnel is the one that changes a habit, because a funnel previously meant opening an Exploration. Saving offers to publish the dashboard straight into the Reports left navigation, without going through Library. Creating one needs Editor or Administrator access; anyone with property access can view what has been published.

The limits decide what you can actually move into it. There is no API support and no segments. Standard properties cap at 15 cards per dashboard and 360 properties at 30, and every published dashboard is shared with the whole property rather than kept to one user.

## Sources

- [About the Google Analytics dashboard, Analytics Help](https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/17217303)
- [Dashboards in Google Analytics just got a massive upgrade, Google Analytics on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/google-analytics_less-digging-more-doing-dashboards-in-google-activity-7498741367020539907-aY47)