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Microsoft Employeedifference between dashboard and report?
hi
can someone help me understand what's the difference between dashboard and report?
thank you!
You create reports over your data model using the tables, columns and visualisation tools. You can't create a dashboard this way. Once you have a report, you can pin individual visualisations from a report into a dashboard - it is like a cockpit of individual visualisations and/or whole reports. Dashboards can have multiple tiles from different reports and different datamodels. When they click on a tile, the report opens.
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- MattAllington
Community Champion
You create reports over your data model using the tables, columns and visualisation tools. You can't create a dashboard this way. Once you have a report, you can pin individual visualisations from a report into a dashboard - it is like a cockpit of individual visualisations and/or whole reports. Dashboards can have multiple tiles from different reports and different datamodels. When they click on a tile, the report opens.
- asocorro
Skilled Sharer
One way in which I like to explain the difference is that a company may have reports from different departments, say HR, Sales, and Manufacturing. And each may have their own dashboards. However, the CEO may be interested in a high-level summary of all departments. You can then create a company dashboard that has tiles with information from each of the three reports/departments.
gvgPost Prodigy
I don't really get it. You can have tiles in reports too!
- Oxana1
Advocate I
Reports are based on the same data set, while dashboards may contain charts that are based on different data sets (that's why we have an ability to pin them onto one dash).
