Publishing to a specifc section

[cat_412]

I have a dashboard with two "pages" with charts on them, which was created with its own data set. I also have another dashboard created with a totally separate data set. The tables in the each dataset are not related to the tables in the other one. I now need to publish so that the two dashboards and their "pages" will be in the same section in the app. However, as these were created with different data sets, I'm not sure how to combine them to accomplish this. 

As an example, I have two dashboards: 

• Dashboard 1
• Dashboard 2

Dashboard 1 has two pages with different charts on them

Dashboard 2 has a couple of pages with different charts on them

I need to be able to publish these so they are all together in the same section in the app. 

I know that you can navigate the dashboards to a specific section; however, I'm not able to accomplish what I need this way, mainly because the section has dashboards listed and then sections underneath of them. I need to be able to put these dashboards in the sections underneath them. 

Thanks in advance for any ideas. 

[cat_412]

@v-cazheng-msft Yes, this is exactly what I needed. Thank you!

[v-cazheng-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @cat_412,

You mean you would like to combine the live page tiles from reports built on different datasets to one dashboard, right? If so, you could complete it by pining a tile from one dashboard to another dashboard strategy as dashboard can be created with tiles including live page tile from existing dashboard. For more details, you could refer to Pin a tile from one dashboard to another dashboard - Power BI | Microsoft Docs.

In Power BI, per dashboard can display data from one or more reports and one or more datasets. You could combine visuals/data there.

Reports in the Power BI service - Power BI | Microsoft Docs

If there is any post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly. If I misunderstand your needs or you still have problems on it, please let me know. Thanks a lot!

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Community Support Team _ Caiyun

[TomMartens]

Hey @cat_412 ,

I have to admit that I have my difficulties to fully understand, I assume that this is due tto he vague wording.
In Power BI there are four (maybe 5) content artifacts:

• Reports
  Reports are created using Power BI Desktop, and can have multiple pages (I neglect the fact, that reports can be created from within the Power BI Service, but I never recommend this).
  A report will be published to a Power BI workspace and can be used inside a Power BI App.
• A dashboard will be created inside the Power BI workspace and can contain multiple tiles (data visualizations) coming from one or more reports in the same workspace. Adashboard can also be part of a Power BI App.
• A paginated report
• An xlsx workbook
• A metric

A report represents a section in a Power BI App, the report pages represent the leaf of the navigation hierarchy. It's not possible to change the parent of a report page.

If you want to have just one Report create a composite model, publish the report that contains the composite model, and use this report inside the app.
Here you will find how to create a composite model: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/transform-model/desktop-composite-models?WT.mc_id=DP-MVP-5...

Hopefully, this helps to tackle your challenge.

Regardsm

Tom

[cat_412]

@TomMartens I realize I was confusing in trying to convey what I needed. Thank you for your help!