- (2) **Dashboard title**: When you click the dashboard title, you can search for dashboards contained in the current folder.
- (3) **Share dashboard or panel**: Use this option to share the current dashboard or panel using a link or snapshot. You can also export the dashboard definition from the share modal.
- (6) **Dashboard insights**: Click to view analytics about your dashboard including information about users, activity, query counts. Learn more about [dashboard analytics]({{< relref "../assess-dashboard-usage/" >}}).
- (7) **Dashboard settings**: Use this option to change dashboard name, folder, and tags and manage variables and annotation queries. Learn more about [dashboard settings]({{< relref "../build-dashboards/modify-dashboard-settings/" >}}).
- (9) **Zoom out time range**: Click to zoom out the time range. Learn more about how to use [common time range controls]({{< relref "#common-time-range-controls" >}}).
- (12) **View mode**: Click to display the dashboard on a large screen such as a TV or a kiosk. View mode hides irrelevant information such as navigation menus. Learn more about view mode in our [How to Create Kiosks to Display Dashboards on a TV blog post](https://grafana.com/blog/2019/05/02/grafana-tutorial-how-to-create-kiosks-to-display-dashboards-on-a-tv/).
- (13) **Dashboard panel**: The primary building block of a dashboard is the panel. To add a new panel, dashboard row, or library panel, click **Add panel**.
- Rows can be collapsed or expanded allowing you to hide parts of the dashboard.
- Panels inside a collapsed row do not issue queries.
- Use [repeating rows]({{< relref "../build-dashboards/create-dashboard/#configure-repeating-rows" >}}) to dynamically create rows based on a template variable.
## Keyboard shortcuts
Grafana has a number of keyboard shortcuts available. Press `?` or `h` on your keyboard to display all keyboard shortcuts available in your version of Grafana.
-`Ctrl+S`: Saves the current dashboard.
-`f`: Opens the dashboard finder / search.
-`d+k`: Toggle kiosk mode (hides the menu).
-`d+e`: Expand all rows.
-`d+s`: Dashboard settings.
-`Ctrl+K`: Opens the command palette.
-`Esc`: Exits panel when in fullscreen view or edit mode. Also returns you to the dashboard from dashboard settings.
**Focused panel**
By hovering over a panel with the mouse you can use some shortcuts that will target that panel.
-`e`: Toggle panel edit view
-`v`: Toggle panel fullscreen view
-`ps`: Open Panel Share Modal
-`pd`: Duplicate Panel
-`pr`: Remove Panel
-`pl`: Toggle panel legend
## Set dashboard time range
Grafana provides several ways to manage the time ranges of the data being visualized, for dashboard, panels and also for alerting.
This section describes supported time units and relative ranges, the common time controls, dashboard-wide time settings, and panel-specific time settings.
### Time units and relative ranges
Grafana supports the following time units: `s (seconds)`, `m (minutes)`, `h (hours)`, `d (days)`, `w (weeks)`, `M (months)`, `Q (quarters)` and `y (years)`.
The minus operator enables you to step back in time, relative to the current date and time, or `now`. If you want to display the full period of the unit (day, week, month, etc...), append `/<time unit>` to the end. To view fiscal periods, use `fQ (fiscal quarter)` and `fy (fiscal year)` time units.
Click the current time range to change it. You can change the current time using a _relative time range_, such as the last 15 minutes, or an _absolute time range_, such as `2020-05-14 00:00:00 to 2020-05-15 23:59:59`.
Select the relative time range from the **Relative time ranges** list. You can filter the list using the input field at the top. Some examples of time ranges include:
- Last 30 minutes
- Last 12 hours
- Last 7 days
- Last 2 years
- Yesterday
- Day before yesterday
- This day last week
- Today so far
- This week so far
- This month so far
#### Absolute time range
You can set an absolute time range in the following ways:
- Type values into the **From** and **To** fields. You can type exact time values or relative values, such as `now-24h`, and then click **Apply time range**.
- Click in the **From** or **To** field. Grafana displays a calendar. Click the day or days you want to use as the current time range and then click **Apply time range**.
This section also displays recently used absolute ranges.
Grafana Alerting does not support semi-relative time ranges.
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You can also use the absolute time range settings to set a semi-relative time range. Semi-relative time range dashboards are useful when you need to monitor the progress of something over time, but you also want to see the entire history from a starting point.
Set a semi-relative time range by setting the start time to an absolute timestamp and the end time to a “now” that is relative to the current time. For example:
**Start time:** `2023-05-01 00:00:00`
**End time:** `now`
If you wanted to track the progress of something during business hours, you could set a time range that covers the current day, but starting at 8am, like so:
**Start time:** `now/d+8h`
**End time:** `now`
This is equivalent to the **Today so far** time range preset, but it starts at 8:00am instead of 12:00am by appending +8h to the periodic start time.
Using a semi-relative time range, as time progresses, your dashboard will automatically and progressively zoom out to show more history and fewer details. At the same rate, as high data resolution decreases, historical trends over the entire time period will become more clear.
Click the **Zoom out** icon to view a larger time range in the dashboard or panel visualization.
#### Zoom in (only applicable to graph visualizations)
Click and drag to select the time range in the visualization that you want to view.
#### Refresh dashboard
Click the **Refresh dashboard** icon to immediately run every query on the dashboard and refresh the visualizations. Grafana cancels any pending requests when you trigger a refresh.
By default, Grafana does not automatically refresh the dashboard. Queries run on their own schedule according to the panel settings. However, if you want to regularly refresh the dashboard, then click the down arrow next to the **Refresh dashboard** icon and then select a refresh interval.
### Control the time range using a URL
You can control the time range of a dashboard by providing the following query parameters in the dashboard URL:
-`from`: Defines the lower limit of the time range, specified in `ms`, `epoch`, or [relative time]({{< relref "#relative-time-range" >}})
-`to`: Defines the upper limit of the time range, specified in `ms`, `epoch`, or [relative time]({{< relref "#relative-time-range" >}})
-`time` and `time.window`: Defines a time range from `time-time.window/2` to `time+time.window/2`. Both parameters should be specified in `ms`. For example `?time=1500000000000&time.window=10000` results in 10s time range from 1499999995000 to 1500000005000
