Power BI My Workspace – The Items that Make Up the Landing Page for Your Service

The Power BI dashboard and workspace is the landing page for your service. The various items that make up the landing page are listed below:

 

1. Navigation bar (navbar)

Use the navbar to move between the Power BI building blocks: dashboards, reports, and datasets.

Select Get Data to add datasets, reports, and dashboards to Power BI.

Expand and collapse the navbar with this icon  .

Use Search to find specific items in the navbar.

Select a plus icon  to create a new dashboard or get a new dataset.

The listed Dashboards, Reports, and Datasets are available for you to use.  Shared dashboards are read-only and display the shared icon  .

Dashboard, report, and dataset names usually match the name of the underlying dataset file -- but you can rename them.

Right-click

a dashboard, report or dataset to display the context-sensitive menu.

 

Single-click

a heading to collapse or expand it

a dashboard to display it

a report to open it in Reading View

a dataset to explore it

2. Dashboard with Tiles
Dashboards are composed of tiles.  Tiles are created in report Editing View, Q&A, other dashboards and can be pinned from Excel, SSRS, and more. A special type of tile called a widget is added directly onto the dashboard. The tiles that appear on a dashboard were specifically put there by a report creator/owner.  The act of adding a tile to a dashboard is called pinning.

 

3. Q&A question box

One way to explore your data is to ask a question and let Power BI Q&A give you an answer, in the form of a visualization. Q&A cannot be used to add content to a report, only to add content, in the form of tiles, to dashboards.

Q&A looks for an answer in the dataset(s) connected to the dashboard.  A connected dataset is one that has at least one tile pinned to that dashboard.

As soon as you start to type your question, Q&A takes you to the Q&A page. As you type, Q&A helps you ask the right question and find the best answer with re-phrasings, autofill, suggestions, and more. When you have a visualization (answer) you like, pin it to your dashboard. For more information, see Q&A in Power BI.

4. Full screen, Notifications, Settings, Downloads, Help, and feedback

The icons in the top right corner are your resources for settings, notifications, downloads, getting help, and providing feedback to the Power BI team. Select the double arrow to open the dashboard in Full screen mode. 

5. Dashboard Title

It's not always easy to figure out which dashboard is active.  The dashboard title appears on the dashboard view page, on the Q&A page, in report Editing View and report Reading View, and when you open a dataset.  

6. Office 365 app launcher

The app launcher is designed to help you get to your Office 365 apps.

 

7. Power BI home

Selecting this returns you to the dashboard that you viewed most recently.

8. Options

This area of the workspace contains icons for interacting with the dashboard. Besides Add tile, Favorite and Share selecting the ellipses reveals options for duplicating, printing, and refreshing the dashboard and more.