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Dashboard Vs Report
ah ok! and yes i have those books already.
Ok when you publish to the Power BI service, it creates 2 objects a dataset and a report. Even though technically what you have already created is a dashboard you need to pin that 'report' aka dashboard into a dashboard.
What you need to do is in the Power BI service, manually create a dashboard in the dashsboard workspace by clicking the + where it says dashboard. Basically what you doing it creating a shell to dump your 'report' into. Then open your report, at the top of the screen you should see pin live dashboard, pin it to the dashboard you just created.
You might want think about creating a group workspace for the group you created, in other words the default will be your work space. Create a group workspace to share your content with the group that are going to consume the dashboard. You can do that under my work space at the top. Then add all the users into that, unless there is already an defined group in your office 365 domain that you can add it to. There is a way of linking those groups to power bi i think.
hope that makes sense.
ok, I think we are slightly out of sync, I know the definition and differance between a Dash and Report, I am a BI.
What I do not understand is PowerBi`s definition between a Dashboard and a Report.
I have made, what is, by definition a Dashboard,
However, PowerBi sees this as a report, when i publish this to a workspace, its housese this under the heading of Report, not Dashboard.
Why I cant workout, is how to tell PowerBi that the Dashboard I have made, is a Dashboard and not a Report and to stop treating it as such.
This is where Tableau was better, you simply said "I want to make a Dashboard" or "I want to tell a story", which was more like a report delivery.
Does that make more sense.
Thanks for the link, ill read it, to share on that theme, take a look at two books by Stephen Few, "Information Dashboard Design" and "Show Me the Numbers" both are excellent.
ah ok! and yes i have those books already.
Ok when you publish to the Power BI service, it creates 2 objects a dataset and a report. Even though technically what you have already created is a dashboard you need to pin that 'report' aka dashboard into a dashboard.
What you need to do is in the Power BI service, manually create a dashboard in the dashsboard workspace by clicking the + where it says dashboard. Basically what you doing it creating a shell to dump your 'report' into. Then open your report, at the top of the screen you should see pin live dashboard, pin it to the dashboard you just created.
You might want think about creating a group workspace for the group you created, in other words the default will be your work space. Create a group workspace to share your content with the group that are going to consume the dashboard. You can do that under my work space at the top. Then add all the users into that, unless there is already an defined group in your office 365 domain that you can add it to. There is a way of linking those groups to power bi i think.
hope that makes sense.
Thanks for your help, You pointed me in the right direction and this has resolved my issue.
Appreciate it a lot.
Take Care. :-)
That sounds like what i needed. Ill give that a go, thanks. :-)
in a very round about way! :smileyvery-happy:
glad its sorted.
i have question here when we report refresh the tiles in dashbaord refreshes automatically or do we need to set any properties.
In my case i see numbers are being chnaged at report level but not in dashbaord. if anyone can help here?