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difference between dashboard and report?
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.
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.
Hi Adolfo,
Great explanation! However I stil have a doubt:
Is the Dashboard static or dinamic!? I mean . . . will I be able to see the automatic update data in the Dashboard as in the Reports?
A example. I have 3 Reports, one for each Power Plant and they are updated every 5min with a lot of production information. The CEO wants to see just the Energy Generation Graph for the 3 plants.
What should I do? Just pin the EGG from the reports or create a new Report to consolitade them?
Thanks in advance
Elton Senne