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You've read Introduction to dashboards in Power BI, and now you want to create your own. There are many ways to create a dashboard. For example, you can create a dashboard from a report, from scratch, from a semantic model, or by duplicating an existing dashboard. In this article, you create a quick and easy dashboard that pins visualizations from an existing report.
After you complete this article, you'll understand:
Note
Dashboards are a feature of the Power BI service, not Power BI Desktop. You can't create dashboards in the Power BI mobile apps, but you can view and share them there.
You can use the following steps and the Procurement Analysis sample to try pinning visualizations to a new dashboard for yourself.
Open a report and select More options (...) > Edit to open the report in Editing view.
Tip
You don't have to open the report in Edit mode, but you do have to have edit permissions for the report.
Hover over a visualization to reveal the options that are available. To add a visualization to a dashboard, select the pin icon
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Select whether to pin to an existing dashboard or new dashboard.
In this case, we select the option for New dashboard and enter a name.
In some cases, the item you're pinning might have a theme already applied. For example, visuals pinned from an Excel workbook. If so, select the theme to apply to the tile:
When you select Pin, Power BI creates the new dashboard in the current workspace. After the Pinned to dashboard message appears, select Go to dashboard. If you're prompted to save the report, select Save.
Power BI opens the new dashboard, which has one tile: the visualization you just pinned.
Select the tile to return to the report. Pin a few more tiles to the new dashboard. When the Pin to dashboard window appears, select Existing dashboard.
Another option is to pin an entire report page to a dashboard, which is an easy way to pin more than one visualization at a time. When you pin an entire page, the tiles are live. That is, you can interact with them there on the dashboard. Changes you make to any of the visualizations in the report editor, like adding a filter or changing the fields used in the chart, are reflected in the dashboard tile as well.
For more information, see Pin an entire report page.
Some report formatting options or themes aren't applied to visuals when you pin them to a dashboard.
Congratulations on creating your first dashboard. Now that you have a dashboard, there's much more you can do with it. Start exploring on your own, or see one of the following articles:
More questions? Try the Power BI Community.
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