Creating a Tiled Dashboard A tiled dashboard is made up of visuals taken from several pages in a report or even from different reports.

You can arrange the layout of the visuals on a tiled dashboard. However, although the visuals will update if the data has been refreshed any formatting changes made to the visuals in the original report will not change. So for example, if a pie chart is changed to a donut chart, or if the color has been changed in the report, it will not update on the tile in the dashboard.

Let's do a workout and see how to create a tiled dashboard.

I'm just going to use a report that's already been created. So M7 L4 transactions report version 2.

I'm going to take this report and publish it up to the cloud service and from there we can create a tiled dashboard.

We can see we have three pages here on this report each page contains a range of different visuals. I'm just going to click on publish and see if it changes there and publish it up to my own private workspace.

Okay, now I have it published. I'm just going to click on the link and that will take me to my Power BI cloud service.

I'm going to create a dashboard and I'm going to make it a tiled dashboard here when I hover over any visual on a report. We have some icons and one of those icons is a pin visual so we can see this here as I just hover over any particular visual and I can choose which ones I want to pin to my tile dashboard, I'm going to start with this line char, just click on pin visual there.

I'm going to put onto a new dashboard I'm going to go call this one overview of client spending and I'll just put a two beside that, click on pin.

So it's not the entire page that's gone up just that one particular visual now I'm going to pin some more before I go to my dashboard, I'm going to take some cards. I'll take maybe this card here, we'll pin that one.

And I'll pin it to the same dashboard overview of client spending two.

I'll take another one, I'll take the average transaction and I'll do that as well.

Go and click on pin.

I might go to another page now, I'm going to go to transaction breakdown and I'll take my pie chart and I'll pin that.

again to the same dashboard and I'll do one more, I'll take my column chart to top 5 states and I'll pin that one as well.

Once I finished I can then click on go to dashboard.

And it will take me to my dashboard. I have a combination of visuals here taken from a range of different pages in my report. I can move them around by clicking and dragging like so and I can if I wish resize them when I resize however, I just need to make sure it fits into the gray shadow behind. If I just open that a little bit more there I can resize that one and I'll just maybe bring this one down as well.

There we go, now I have my tiled dashboard. I've been able to rearrange the visuals which I can't do on a live page.

But once I've done that I can then do what I normally do with my live page and that is bring it up into full screen mode. I'll click here at the top right and I'll make sure I use the fit to width to space it out into the full screen and we can see here our tiled dashboard. We don't have the interactions. However on a tiled dashboard the way we would have in a live page and the other thing to remember is if I do change any of the visuals on the report, they won't update either on the tile dashboard. The benefit really of the tiled dashboard is that you can rearrange the layout and position visuals much more easily.