'Move questions into their dashboard' Adds New Cards to Dashboard

I’ve been testing out the new “Move questions into their dashboards” feature and wanted to share some feedback — overall I think it’s a great addition to help declutter collections, but I’ve run into a limitation that makes it hard to adopt in more advanced dashboard setups.

Use Case:

In several of our dashboards, we use combo charts to compare two different bar chart questions on the same graph (e.g., actual vs. benchmark). The supporting benchmark question is never intended to be viewed standalone — it’s only used to enrich the primary visualization.

When I bulk-used the new “Move questions into their dashboards” feature, these supporting questions were added as individual cards at the bottom of the dashboard, even though they were already embedded as part of a combo chart. That means users now see extra charts that are confusing, redundant, or out of context.

What’s Not Working:

  • There’s no way to hide or mark these cards as “support-only.”
  • Once moved, they clutter the dashboard and distract from the intended visual.
  • The dashboard is now harder to maintain and more confusing for the end user.

Suggested Improvement:

It would be great if Metabase could support a “hidden” or “helper-only” status for questions that are:

  • Used only in combo/multi-series charts
  • Not meant to be shown as standalone cards

Maybe a toggle like “Hide from dashboard view” in the dashboard editor could help — or automatically detect when a question is only used as a data layer in another card.

Until then, I’ll have to avoid using the feature for these types of cards, which limits the benefit of collection cleanup.

Thanks for the great work, and hope this helps refine the feature for more use cases!

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A workaround is to set the card to not be displayed when no data,then set a filter to something where there will be no results - for example, join country to address1.

Thanks for the suggestion. It is a bit of a hack (which is okay), but I would think that I am not alone in this issue, and maybe Metabase is coming up with a professional solution. One approach might be to have a visible toggle on the card and only display during Dashboard editing. It's a mental change not to see the lists of cards somewhere, but usable.

One other comment on this feature is to allow users to select which dashboard they want to 'Move questions into their Dashboard' as collections with more than one dashboard force all cards into Dashboard storage, versus being able to select only one to move questions. This creates complexity, especially with the issue that I have highlighted in this post.