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Pin an entire report page to a Power BI dashboard as a live tile

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Another way to add a new dashboard tile is by pinning an entire report page. This is an easy way to pin more than one visualization at a time. Also, when you pin an entire page, the tiles are live; you can interact with them right there on the dashboard. Changes you make to any of the visualizations back in the report editor, like adding a filter or changing the fields used in the chart, are reflected in the dashboard tile as well.

Screenshot of live tile page pinned from the report.

Pinning live tiles from reports to dashboards is only available in the Power BI service (app.powerbi.com).

Note

You can't pin tiles from reports that are shared with you.

Pin a report page

Watch Amanda pin a live report page to a dashboard and then follow the step-by-step instructions after the video to try it yourself.

Note

This video might use earlier versions of Power BI Desktop or the Power BI service.

  1. Open a report in Editing view.

  2. With no visualizations selected, from the menu bar, select the Pin icon.

    Screenshot highlighting the Pin icon on the menu bar.

  3. Pin the tile to an existing dashboard or to a new dashboard. Notice the highlighted text: Pin live page enables changes to reports to appear in the dashboard tile when the page is refreshed.

    • Existing dashboard: Select the name of the dashboard from the dropdown. Dashboards that were shared with you won't appear in the dropdown.

    • New dashboard: Enter the name of the new dashboard.

      Screenshot showing the Pin to dashboard dialog.

  4. Select Pin live. A Success message (near the top right corner) lets you know the page was added as a tile to your dashboard.

Open the dashboard to see the pinned live tile

  1. From the nav pane, select the dashboard with the new live tile. There you can do things like rename, resize, link, and move the pinned report page.

  2. Interact with the live tile. In the following screenshot, you can see how selecting a bar on the column chart has cross-filtered and cross-highlighted the other visualizations on the tile.

    Screenshot showing dashboards with a live tile. !

Next steps

Dashboards for business users of the Power BI service

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