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title: "The Big Picture Search Panel"
canonical: "https://support.appfire.com/space/RDD/648479799/The%20Big%20Picture%20Search%20Panel"
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BigPicture Boxes, group all your projects, products, teams, or portfolios

The BigPicture search allows you to search through your boxes and select the elements you want to display in your BigPictureCustom Chart gadget, filtering out unwanted tasks or projects.

You can search through the selected box by:

- ID
- Status
- Box type
- Text  
Text search mode filters information based on the BigPicture summary fields. Available text fields depend on your data source.
- Start/end date range

> ℹ️ The search also applies to all hidden fields and columns.

## Selecting the fields for the BigPicture Custom Charts

1. Select the BigPicture Custom Charts gadget.

      The Select and Filter Your Boxes panel is displayed.

3. Click on the Select Multiple Boxes field.

      The Tree locator is displayed.   
      The Tree locator displays the fields in your BigPicture instance for the selected data source.

> Macro (rw-ui-textbox-macro)
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> ![image](media://4288e835-8e11-4a81-aff0-0f7a0528fee9)

4. Use the checkboxes to select the box ID where the content is to be displayed in the BigPicture Custom Charts gadget.
5. Proceed to select the View Type (chart or table).

> Macro (rw-ui-textbox-macro)
> 
> ![image](media://a8cd643a-4a10-4f1d-ab90-5b5f9569446c)

6. Click on Configure filters to refine your search to add additional search criteria.

> Macro (rw-ui-textbox-macro)
> 
> ![image](media://722f882f-a984-4d69-ace2-c92a16d63a07)

7. Click on Load to preview the populated gadget.

> ℹ️ If you selected Chart as a View type, you need to configure the chart before you can preview it.

7. Click on Add to save the gadget on the Dashboard.