Dashboards, reports, and datasets are at the heart of Power BI Preview. Create personalized dashboards to monitor your most important data, at a glance. A dashboard combines on-premises and cloud-born data in a single pane of glass, providing a consolidated view across the organization regardless of where the data lives. Each metric, or insight, is displayed on the dashboard as a tile.
Need help understanding the building blocks that make up Power BI Preview? See Power BI Preview - Basic Concepts.
When you first go to Power BI Preview, you're looking at a sample dashboard for retail data. For detailed information about the sample, see Sample datasets.
Each tile is a snapshot of information taken from the underlying dataset. Learn how to add tiles to a dashboard. The tiles on a dashboard can be resized, moved, deleted, and renamed.
Unless you remove it, the sample dashboard is always available for you to use to explore and learn.
NOTE: The sample that comes with Power BI is read-only. For a writable version of this sample dashboard and report, in the navigation pane, click Get Data > Retail Analysis Sample.
Create a dashboard
Learn how to create a new dashboard and add tiles.
Share a dashboard
Learn how to share a dashboard with your co-workers.
Rename a dashboard
Need a more descriptive dashboard name? Rename it.
Delete a dashboard
Don't need the dashboard any more? Delete it.
Add tiles to a dashboard
Get data and add tiles to your dashboard.
Dashboard size
Dashboards can be wider and longer than the browser window. If so, they have scroll bars. Because you want to show everything important at a glance, we recommend making the dashboard fit the browser window. For more tips, see Tips for designing a great dashboard.
Working with Dashboards in the navigation pane
Power BI Preview can have more than one dashboard -- as you add more dashboards, their titles are added to the list under the Dashboards heading. The dashboard you're currently viewing is highlighted. Only one dashboard can be open at a time.
