View a dashboard

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Power BI business users spend a lot of time viewing dashboards. Dashboards are designed to highlight specific information from the underlying reports and datasets. And Power BI business users rely on that information for tracking, monitoring, answering questions, testing, and more--in order to make data-driven business decisions.

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Open a dashboard

Dashboards can be opened from many locations in the Power BI service. One way to open a dashboard is to select and open a workspace.

If that workspace contains a dashboard, you'll see the following icon.

Once you've identified a dashboard, open it by selecting it and the dashboard will fill your Power BI canvas.

On the navigation pane, you can find dashboards in:

• Home
• Browse
  • Recent - if you've recently visited a dashboard
  • Favorites - if you've set a dashboard as a favorite
  • Shared with me - if a colleague has shared a dashboard with you
• Apps - most apps contain both dashboards and reports
• My workspace - if you've downloaded any of the Power BI samples

Next steps

• Back to dashboard overview.

• Get comfortable with dashboards by taking a tour of one of our sample dashboards.

• Learn about dashboard tiles and what will happen when you select one.