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 semantic models. 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.

A Power BI Pro or Premium license is required for both sharing a dashboard and viewing a shared dashboard. Which license do I have?.

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 see the following icon.

Once you identified a dashboard, open it by selecting it and the dashboard fills your Power BI canvas.

On the left navigation pane, view and open dashboards from:

• Home
• Browse,
  • Recent - if you recently visited a dashboard
  • Favorites - if you set a dashboard as a favorite
  • Shared with me - if a colleague shared a dashboard with you
• Data hub - contains content from across your organization
• Apps - most apps contain both dashboards and reports
• Workspaces, including My workspace - if you downloaded any of the Power BI samples or other content or if colleagues have shared content with you.

Related content

• Back to dashboard overview.

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

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