Once a dashboard has a quick filters bar, two things are yours to shape. Every filter on the bar is an editable button — you can rename it, colour it, set its width and font size, drag it into the order you want, and remove it. And on a dashboard with tabs, the bar no longer has to be the same everywhere: a single tab can have its own filters bar, independent of the dashboard's default one.

This guide covers both. Setting a bar up in the first place — adding one, choosing which filters go on it, saving the filters everyone starts from, and who is allowed to change them — is covered in Quick Filters Bar on Dashboards: Setup, Permissions, and Daily Use.

You need a dashboard that already has a filters bar. Everything here acts on an existing bar.

Editing buttons needs the bar's edit tier. Anyone who can edit the dashboard has it automatically; it can also be granted on its own as Edit Filters on the dashboard's access page, so someone can shape the bar without being able to change the widgets.

Adding or removing a whole bar is a bigger permission. A bar appearing or vanishing changes the dashboard for every viewer, so it sits with managing the dashboard's user access, not with editing the bar. Giving one tab its own bar only needs the edit tier.

A button on the bar shows its label and a count — how many values are currently picked. It never prints the values themselves, so a bar with six filters on it stays the same width whether one brand is selected or forty.

To see what is actually selected, hover the count. A tooltip lists every value. Hovering the rest of the button says nothing — the count is the handle. Viewers who cannot change the filters get the same tooltip, so read-only audiences can always tell what a dashboard is filtered to.

Open the gear menu at the right-hand end of the bar and tick Edit filter buttons. The buttons grow their editing controls: a drag handle on the left, a pencil and a three-dots button beside the label, an x to remove, and a grip on the right edge.

Putting the dashboard itself into edit mode turns button editing on too, so if you are already editing the dashboard the controls are simply there. The gear-menu toggle exists for people who can shape the bar but not the dashboard.

Click the pencil next to a button's label. The label turns into a text box. Type the name you want and press Enter to save, or Escape to abandon the change.

The point is to let the bar speak your team's language rather than the data's. A filter whose underlying attribute is called ticket_form_id can read Request Type. Clear the label again and the button goes back to the attribute's own name.

Click the three dots on a button to open Edit filter button. There is no menu in between — the editor opens directly. It holds five settings:

The button updates live as you type, so you can see the result before committing. Reset to default clears all five at once; Cancel abandons; Save keeps.

Colour is worth using sparingly. It reads best as a signal — the one filter people must set before the numbers mean anything — rather than as decoration on every button.

While button editing is on, drag a button by the handle on its left to move it along the bar. The new order is saved as you drop it and is what everyone else sees.

Drag the grip on a button's right edge to set its width. The grip and the editor's Width (px) field are the same setting seen two ways: drag the grip and the field follows; type a number and the button resizes. Widening the one filter with long value names, and letting the rest size themselves, usually reads better than setting a width on everything.

Click the x on a button. A confirmation appears first, because removing a filter from the bar also drops whatever it was filtering on for everyone using that bar.

Removing a button does not remove the filter from Qvasa — it only takes it off this bar. Add it back any time with Add filter, and it reappears in the picker as soon as it is off the bar.

On a dashboard with tabs there are two kinds of bar:

They are independent. A tab can have its own bar on a dashboard that has no default at all, and removing the default leaves the tab bars standing unless you deliberately clear them too.

There are three ways in, and all three end up in the same place:

A tab bar announces itself three ways, so nobody edits the wrong one:

Switching tabs swaps the bar to whichever one that tab uses, and anything you had picked but not saved on the bar you left is still there when you come back. Widgets are always filtered by the bar belonging to their own tab, so a chart on a tab with its own bar keeps its own filtering whichever tab you happen to be looking at.

Saving defaults on a tab bar saves them for that tab only. Cloning the dashboard copies the tab bars along with it.

Open the tab bar's gear menu. You get one of two options, depending on whether a default bar exists:

Either way the widgets keep the filters they currently have saved. Removing a bar takes the bar away, not the filtering it had already written into the widgets.

To remove the default bar, use Remove the default filters bar in its gear menu. Tab-only bars survive that by design; the confirmation offers a tick box if you want to clear every tab's own bar at the same time.

I cannot see the editing controls on the buttons. Open the bar's gear menu and tick Edit filter buttons. If the toggle is not there, you have permission to use the bar but not to shape it — ask a dashboard manager for Edit Filters on the dashboard's access page.

The "Filters Bar" button is not in the top bar. It shows only while the dashboard has no default bar. If a default already exists, give a tab its own bar from the bar's gear menu instead.

The gear menu will not open on hover. It is a click menu, not a hover one. Click the gear.

I changed a button and nobody else sees it. Appearance and order save immediately and apply to everyone. Filter values are different: picking values shows an Unsaved filter changes banner and applies to your session only until you click Save as Default.

I removed the default bar and the tab bars are still there. That is intended — they are independent. Remove each one from its own gear menu, or use the tick box in the default bar's removal confirmation next time.