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# Partner Connections

A network graph of partners joined where they share a contact or an action plan.

#### Location

This panel appears on the following dashboards:

* [SNAP-Ed Dashboard](/analyze/impact-dashboards/snap-ed-dashboard.md)
* [Extension Dashboard](/analyze/impact-dashboards/extension-dashboard.md)

#### Modules Included

* Partners
* Community Relationships (CRM)
* Action Plans

#### Filters

**Applied Filters**

* **Viewable records** — Only partners the current user can see in the Partners list are included.
* **Reporting Year**, **Program Areas**, **Unit** — Applied through the partner's reports.

**Non-Applicable Filters**

* **Collaborators** — Partners have no collaborators; record sharing grants replaced them.
* **Verified**, **Interventions**, **Projects**, **Primary Curriculum**, **Session Date Range** — Not applicable to partner records.

#### Calculations

1. PEARS retrieves all viewable partners matching the current dashboard filters.
2. A force-directed graph is drawn with one node per partner.
3. Two kinds of edge connect them:
   * **Shared contact** — A person listed on both partners. The weight is how many such people.
   * **Shared action plan** — An action plan both partners are attached to. The weight is how many.

#### What It Answers

Which partners are connected to other partners.

#### Additional Notes

* This is the companion to [Partner Relationship Graph](/analyze/impact-dashboards/panels/partner-relationship-graph.md). That panel shows partners and contacts as separate nodes; this one collapses the contacts and plans into the edges so only partners remain. Both cap on the same ranking and show the same partners, so they can be read side by side.
* The two edge kinds are kept distinct rather than combined, because "connected" means two different things here and averaging them would hide both.
* Partners sharing nothing with any other partner stay on the chart. Dropping them would turn "isolated" into "absent".
* The graph carries counts of shared contacts and plans, never their identities.