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# Footnote and Long Description

> This guide provides essential instructions to enhance your dashboard cards with additional descriptive elements and to improve the overall communication and utility of your data visualizations.

### 1. Adding a Long Description and Footnote:

* On the metric creation page, click the **"Save to Dashboard"** button in the top right corner.
* In the **Long Description** field, enter a detailed description of the metric or add a link to redirect users to the required information.
* In the **Footnote** field, add any additional contextual information, links to redirect to the same existing page or a new page, or formatting options such as bold and italics for better customization.
* Click **"Save"** to save the metric to your dashboard.

### Adding text to footnote and long description:

<Frame>
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/databrainlabs-bef6850a/hRxI-z391a3Ay8M5/images/guides/text.gif?s=4a36c4f7a71796e981c27013de08118b" alt="Example of entering text into the Long Description and Footnote fields" width="1630" height="919" data-path="images/guides/text.gif" />
</Frame>

### Adding links to footnote and long description:

You can include clickable links in the Long Description and Footnote fields to provide quick access to external pages.

<Frame>
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/databrainlabs-bef6850a/oJW5seGO2mMUK4Ch/images/guides/link.gif?s=9d43edebae7c944197a4a06304728521" alt="Example of adding a hyperlink inside the Long Description and Footnote fields" width="1630" height="919" data-path="images/guides/link.gif" />
</Frame>

### 2. Viewing the Changes:

* The long description will appear when hovering over the information icon next to the metric name.
* The footnote will display directly below the metric on your dashboard.

**Text result**

<Frame>
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/databrainlabs-bef6850a/hRxI-z391a3Ay8M5/images/guides/text-result.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=hRxI-z391a3Ay8M5&q=85&s=4ccf108cad8c40c49b2f45e261f30393" alt="Preview showing how text appears in the footnote and long description" width="2940" height="1660" data-path="images/guides/text-result.png" />
</Frame>

**Link result**

<Frame>
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/databrainlabs-bef6850a/oJW5seGO2mMUK4Ch/images/guides/link-result.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=oJW5seGO2mMUK4Ch&q=85&s=1312a153254535fcab5ce242ac783f0a" alt="Preview showing how clickable links appear in the footnote and long description" width="2940" height="1652" data-path="images/guides/link-result.png" />
</Frame>

<Check>
  You’ve successfully added and customized footnotes and long descriptions for your metric!\
  Your dashboard cards now provide richer context, clearer explanations, and easy access to supporting information.
</Check>
