Introduction Of Dashboards In Power BI

Introduction

 
A dashboard is also known as a canvas; in Power BI it is a single page that contains the highlights of the story through visualization.
 
Dashboards are a feature of the Power BI service only. They're not available in Power BI Desktop.
 
A dashboard has tiles. Tiles are visualizations of the reports on the dashboard. You pin the tiles to a dashboard from reports.
 

Advantages of Dashboard

 
Dashboards are very useful feature to monitor a business, and to see all of your most important measurements and data calculations. The tiles on a dashboard may come from one dataset or many, and from one report or many. A dashboard is not just an image but also a very interactive display and tiles will get updated as per data changes.
 

Difference Between Dashboards and Reports

 
Dashboards
Reports
Dashboards have only one page but can have one or more data sets and data sources
Reports can have one or more pages but only can have only one data set and data source per reports
It cannot filter or slice
It has many ways for filtering, highlight and slice
It always asks questions about your data
Never asks questions
You can not see tables and fields in the dashboard itself
Dataset tables, fields and values can be seen in reports
You can set an email alert when certain conditions are met
Cannot set alert
You can set one dashboard as the featured dashboard
Cannot create a featured report
 

How to create a dashboard

 
As I have mentioned above, dashboards are features of Power Bi services not a Power BI desktop so you have login on power bi service.
 
Login on ‘https://app.powerbi.com/’ and you will get a 60 day free trial. Once you've logged in on power bi services, you can see the ‘Workspace’ icon on the left side, click on it.
 
Now will get the option of ‘Create Workspace’. See below image.
 
Introduction Of Dashboards In Power BI 
 
After clicking on ‘Create a workspace’, a workspace will be opened. Here you can create a ‘Dashboard’, ‘Report’, ‘Dataset’ and ‘Streaming dataset’.
 
Introduction Of Dashboards In Power BI 
 
Here our task is to create ‘Dashboard’ so click on ‘Dashboard’ and type the name of dashboard and click on ‘Create’.
 
Introduction Of Dashboards In Power BI 
 
Now your dashboard will be created. In a dashboard you can see so many options, including ‘Add a Tile’, ‘Chat in Teams’, ‘Comments’ and many more. By click on ‘Add a Tile’ you can add a tile on it.
 
Introduction Of Dashboards In Power BI 
 

Summary

 
This is the overview of dashboard and how to create it. I hope you understand. Stay with us for learning more about Dashboard and other features of Power BI. Thanks for learning. Have a nice day.


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