Power BI - How to add Reports to Dashboards?

Power BI Dashboards help you to view and summarize important information from your reports in one place. You can add an entire report or just specific parts like charts, cards or tables to a dashboard. You can also mix multiple reports into one dashboard. In this article, we’ll learn how to add full report to a dashboard or add visuals from multiple reports to one dashboard.

Creating a Dashboard in Power BI

You can create a dashboard from your workspace. Let’s say your workspace is called geeks_for_geeks and you want to create a dashboard named gfg_dashboard. The following are the  steps: 

Step 1: Go to the required workspace. Click on New button. A drop-down list appears. Click on the Dashboard to create a new dashboard. 

Step 2: A box titled Create dashboard will appear. Type a name for your dashboard i.e gfg_dashboard here and click Create.

Step 3: You’ll now see a blank dashboard screen. It will also appear listed in your workspace.

Adding a Complete Report to a Dashboard in Power BI

As we have created a dashboard successfully. Now we can add an entire report to the dashboard. For example you are given a report report1 and you want to add this report to a dashboard. Following are the steps: 

Step 1:  Go to the required workspace. Click on the report for which you want to pin it to the dashboard. For example report1. 

Step 2: In the top navigation bar we can see three dots. Click on it. A drop-down list appears. Click on the Pin to a dashboard. 

Step 3: A new dialogue box name Pin to dashboard is opened. Click on the existing dashboard radio button. Select the dashboard. For example gfg_dashboard. Click on the Pin live button. 

Step 4: On the right side of the page a new dialogue box name Pinned to dashboard appears. Click on Go to dashboard. 

Step 5: An entire report is added in the gfg_dashboard successfully. 

Adding Components of Multiple Reports in a Dashboard 

We can also add multiple reports and their components in a single dashboard. For example if we want to add a card from report1 and a graph from report2 in a dashboard name gfg_dashboard. Following are the steps: 

Step 1: Go to the required workspace. Now we have 2 reports available. Click on the repor1. 

Step 2: Our task is to add a card name Quantity to the dashboard. Hover on the card. Now click on the Pin visual button. 

Step 3: A dialogue box name Pin to dashboard appears. As we want to add this card in gfg_dashboard so click on the Pin button.  

Step 4: A card name Quantity is successfully added to the dashboard. 

Step 5: Revert back to your workspace. Select report2.  

Step 6: Our task is to add the below-shown graph to our dashboard. Hover over the graph. Click on the Pin visual button. 

Step 7: A new dialogue box name Pin to dashboard appears. As we want to add this graph in gfg_dashboard. Click on the Pin button. 

Step 8: A new graph is added to the same dashboard. We have successfully added a card and a graph from different reports in a dashboard. 

This helps you build a single view that shows only the most important data even if it's from different reports.