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A tile is a snapshot of your data, pinned to a dashboard by a designer. Designers can create tiles from a report, semantic model, dashboard, the Power BI Q&A question box, Excel, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), and more. This screenshot shows many different tiles pinned to a dashboard.
Besides tiles pinned from reports, designers can add standalone tiles directly on the dashboard using Add tile. Standalone tiles include: text boxes, images, videos, streaming data, and web content.
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To display the ellipsis, hover over the tile.
Select the ellipses to open the tile action menu. The options available vary by your permissions, the visual type, and the method used to create the tile.
Some of the actions available from these menus are:
To close the action menu, select a blank area in the canvas.
When you select a tile, what happens next depends on how the tile was created and if it has a custom link. If it has a custom link, selecting the tile takes you to that link. Otherwise, selecting the tile takes you to the report, Excel Online workbook, SSRS report that is on-premises, or Q&A question that was used to create the tile.
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The exception to this is video tiles added to dashboards by designers. Selecting a video tile (that was created this way) causes the video to play right there on the dashboard.
Events
Mar 31, 11 PM - Apr 2, 11 PM
The ultimate Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, SQL, and AI community-led event. March 31 to April 2, 2025.
Register today