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Add images, videos, and more to your dashboard

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When you add a tile to your dashboard, you can place an image, text box, video, streaming data, or web code on your dashboard. This article takes you through the steps of adding different types of content to dashboards, making them more informative, interactive, and visually appealing.

Tip

Widget types available: Use Edit > Add a tile to add images, text boxes, videos, streaming data, or web content (embed code) directly to your Power BI dashboard without pinning from a report.

Note

You must have permission to edit the dashboard, or you won't see the same options described here. Your administrator might also disable certain content.

Add an image, video, or other tile

You can add an image, text box, video, streaming data, or web code directly to your dashboard.

  1. Select the arrow next to Edit in the top menu, and then select Add a tile.

    Screenshot showing the Add a tile selection.

  2. Select the type of tile to add:

    Screenshot of the Add a tile window.

Add an image

To add an image to your dashboard, such as a company logo, you must host the image at a publicly accessible URL. Power BI can't display images that require authentication to access.

Important

Image hosting requirements:

  • The image must be accessible through a direct public URL (for example, https://example.com/images/logo.png).
  • You can't use images stored in OneDrive, SharePoint, or other services that require sign-in because they require authentication.
  • Consider using a public web server, a content delivery network (CDN), or a cloud storage service with public access enabled (such as Azure Blob Storage with anonymous access).

Images can't be in .svg format.

  1. From Add a tile, select Image > Next.

  2. From Add image tile, add the image information:

    1. To display a title above the image, select Display title and subtitle and enter a Title and an optional Subtitle.

    2. Enter the image URL.

    3. To make the tile a hyperlink, select Set custom link and enter the URL.

      When colleagues click the image or title, they go to this URL.

    4. Select Apply.

      Screenshot of the Add image tile window.

  3. On the dashboard, resize and move the image as needed.

    Screenshot of an image on a dashboard.

Add a text box or dashboard heading

To add a dashboard heading, type your heading in the text box and increase the font size.

  1. From the Add a tile window, select Text box > Next.

  2. Format the text box:

    1. To display a title above the text box, select Display title and subtitle and enter a Title and an optional Subtitle.
    2. Enter and format Content for the text box.
    3. Optionally, set a custom link for the title. A custom link can be an external site or a dashboard or report in your workspace. However, in this example, add hyperlinks within the text box itself, so don't check Set custom link.
    4. Select Apply.

    Screenshot of the Add textbox tile window.

  3. On the dashboard, resize and move the text box as needed.

    Screenshot of a dashboard with an image and textbox.

Add a video

When you add a YouTube or Vimeo video tile to your dashboard, the video plays right on your dashboard.

  1. From the Add a tile window, select Video > Next.

  2. Add video information in the Add video tile window:

    1. To display a title and subtitle at the top of the video tile, select Display title and subtitle and enter a Title and an optional Subtitle. In this example, add a Subtitle, and then convert it to a hyperlink to the entire YouTube playlist.
    2. Enter the Video URL for the video.
    3. Add a hyperlink for the Title and Subtitle, so that your colleagues can view the entire playlist on YouTube after they watch the embedded video. To do so, under Functionality, select Set custom link, and then enter the URL for the playlist.
    4. Select Apply.

    Screenshot of the Add video tile window.

  3. On the dashboard, resize and move the video tile as needed.

    Screenshot of a dashboard with video tile added.

  4. Select the video tile to play the video.

  5. Select the subtitle to visit the playlist on YouTube.

Add streaming data

You can add streaming data, such as Twitter feeds or sensor data, to a tile in your dashboard. This example of real-time streaming in Power BI using a publicly available stream from PubNub has detailed instructions to get you started. Read the rest of that article to learn more about real-time streaming options in Power BI.

Add web content

You can paste or type any HTML content as a tile to your report or dashboard. Enter the embed code manually or copy and paste from sites such as Twitter, YouTube, embed.ly, and so on.

  1. From the Add a tile window, select Web content > Next.

  2. Add information to the Add web content tile window:

    1. To display a title above the tile, select Display title and subtitle and enter a Title and an optional Subtitle.
    2. Enter the embed code. In this example, copy and paste a Twitter feed.
    3. Select Apply.

    Screenshot of the Add web content tile window.

  3. On the dashboard, resize and move the web content tile as needed.

    Screenshot of a dashboard with four tiles.

Tips for embedding web content

  • For iframes, use a secure source. If you enter your iframe embed code and get a blank tile, verify you're not using http for the iframe source. If you are, change it to https.

    <iframe src="https://xyz.com">

  • Edit width and height information. The embed code embeds a video and sets the video player to 560 x 315 pixels. This size doesn't change as you resize the tile.

    <iframe width="560" height="315"
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cle_rKBpZ28" frameborder="0"
allowfullscreen></iframe>

    If you want the player to resize to fit the tile size, set the width and height to 100%.

    <iframe width="100%" height="100%"
src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cle_rKBpZ28" frameborder="0"
allowfullscreen></iframe>

  • This code embeds a tweet and retains, as separate links on the dashboard, links for the AFK podcast, @MeganB's Twitter page, Follow, #analytics, reply, retweet, and like. Selecting the tile itself takes you to the podcast on Twitter.

    <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck">
<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Listen to
<a href="https://twitter.com/MeganB">@MeganB</a> talk to
us about making videos about Microsoft Business Intelligence
platform
<a href="https://t.co/TmRgalz7tv">https://t.co/TmRgalz7tv </a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/analytics?src=hash">
#analytics</a></p>&mdash; AFTK Podcast (@aftkpodcast) <a
href="https://twitter.com/aftkpodcast/status/693465456531771392">
January 30, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Edit a tile

To change an existing tile:

  1. Hover over the top-right corner of the tile to display the ellipsis (...). Select it to show the More options menu.

    Screenshot showing the tile ellipsis selection.

  2. Select Edit details to display the Tile details window and make changes.

    Screenshot showing the Edit details option.

Considerations and troubleshooting

  • Add a title and an optional subtitle to make it easier to move the tile on your dashboard.
  • If you'd like to embed content from a website, but the website doesn't provide embed code to copy and paste, see embed.ly for help with generating the embed code.
  • Make sure security credentials aren't required to access the image file. For example, because OneDrive and SharePoint require authentication, you can't add images stored there to a dashboard.
  • You can't use .svg format for images.

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