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# Showing breakdown relations on dashboards

# Showing breakdown relations on dashboards {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Yokohama
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* Updated January 30, 2025
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A breakdown widget can display 1st level breakdown elements that are related to the
element selected for the dashboard. The widget must be on a breakdown dashboard, and that
dashboard must include the breakdown sources of the related breakdowns.  
Note:  
You cannot select more than one element on the dashboard for a widget that shows breakdown relations.
Consider an indicator such as Number of open incidents. This indicator uses the Location breakdown. The Location breakdown has three breakdown relations between its own elements. For an element of Location, these relations are:

* Parent Locations, whose Sys ID value is in the Parent field of other Location elements.
* Child Locations, which have the Sys ID value of another Location element in their Parent fields.
* Sibling Locations, consisting of Location elements who share the same value in the Parent field.
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Figure 1. Breakdown relations between elements of Location  
Now consider a widget that displays the Number of open incidents indicator scores grouped by Location. You set the widget to follow an element selected in a breakdown dashboard. Now you must select which of the breakdown relations to follow.Figure 2. Setting up widget to show elements by breakdown relation  
Important:  
The Followed breakdown relation menu works only when the Scorecard visualization is selected. To allow the user to follow breakdown relations with other visualizations, select Show visualization selector on the widget form.

You select Child Locations. Now you put the widget in a breakdown dashboard that uses the
Locations breakdown source. Locations is the breakdown source of the Location breakdown, so on
the dashboard you can select any of the elements of Location. If you select EMEA, the widget
shows the locations that have EMEA as a parent.  
Figure 3. A widget on a breakdown dashboard showing the children of the dashboard element  
You can go down more levels, to "grandchild" and "great-grandchild" elements. For example, here the location of Germany is selected:Figure 4. Breakdown widget with a child of EMEA selected  
If you edit the widget to display the Parent Location instead of the Child Locations and select Germany on the dashboard again, you see the parent location of Germany.Figure 5. Breakdown widget showing the parent of the dashboard element
**Related concepts**   

* [Showing multiple elements separately or aggregated](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/I1XERZcPHwWYkJshz5sffQ "When you select multiple elements on a dashboard, widgets that follow these elements can show their values either separately or as an aggregate.")
* [Same breakdown on widget and dashboard](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/PvqLQysz3M1LMwrgT3tM5w "If a widget uses the same breakdown as the dashboard, the dashboard breakdown does not apply.")
* [Navigating breakdown elements with breakdown relations](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/lXCoPqZ4k5jIW1QO9pCEKw "Breakdown relations open a new navigation path for viewing breakdown scores, by moving from one breakdown element to another breakdown element. Breakdown relations can be between the elements of different breakdowns, or they can be within a hierarchical structure of elements in the same breakdown. Breakdown relations affect navigation on the Analytics Hub and in breakdown widgets.")  
**Related tasks**   

* [Add breakdown sources to a dashboard](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/8BHlSCnwzXBkomu~rWUDMw "To enable dashboard users to filter visualizations on a dashboard by breakdown element, add breakdown sources to the dashboard.")
* [Configure widgets for breakdown dashboards](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/RArZvMN29Oxy4DkNa0Qdag "Configure each widget that goes on a breakdown dashboard. The configuration determines whether and how the widget follows the elements selected on the dashboard. For some widgets and indicators, you can select whether to show multiple element values separately or as an aggregate.")
* [Create a scorecard visualization for a breakdown widget](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/s9qW64WcrEOLQniXBWZCTw "To show the trend for the elements of one breakdown applied to one indicator, use a scorecard visualization.")