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PL-300 · 4.1.4 · Manage and secure Power BI

Create dashboards

Create dashboards

are service-only one-page canvases built from pinned report visuals or live pages.

Pin report content to a dashboard

Power BI Pin to dashboard dialog for pinning a report visual to an existing or new dashboard.

are created in the Power BI service, not in Desktop. Pin a report visual or a complete live report page to create .

One-page overview across sources

Power BI service dashboard showing a pinned report visualization as a dashboard tile.

A dashboard is one canvas and can combine highlights from several reports or . That makes it useful as an at-a-glance landing page.

Tile and live page behave differently

A normal pinned visual becomes a dashboard tile and usually opens its source report when selected. Pinning a preserves more of the report page's interaction on the dashboard.

A dashboard is not just another report page: it is service-only, single-page, and tile-based.

Exam clue: one service-only overview built from pinned content = dashboard.

Key points

  • Service only: are not created in Desktop
  • : pin a visual or live report page
  • Multiple sources: one dashboard can combine reports
  • Tile selection: normally opens the source report

Click an underlined term for a one-line explanation, or see them all in the glossary .

Exam trap

A pinned visual does not automatically change type when its source report visual changes.

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