2016 1 20 Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI MOD4 4c

You've already seen how to pin individual charts to a dashboard. However when you pin those charts, they are a snapshot of it in a way. So if you do things like changing filters of the chart in the report, those filters do not reflect in the tile on the dashboard. Your data still goes through, but any changes to the filters or the layout of the chart will not. Also each of those charts that you pin are independent of each other and can be moved around separately. These are all great features of a tile; however, sometimes that's not what you want. Sometimes you want to keep your charts interactive with each other and associated with each other within the dashboard, and you know you're going to be doing things like changing filters a lot. So you want to keep the two in sync. We have a way to do this which is pinning the whole report page together. To pin a report page, you click on the button in the top bar called pin live page. When you do this, you will see the same type of thing as you do when you pin an individual chart, which is a preview of it and also the options to pick which dashboard you want. You also see this little notification letting you know that as you make changes to your page in the report, those will reflect on your dashboard tile. So I click pin live, and I return to my dashboard. Now when I scroll down, I can see that pinned report page right here. And as I mentioned this report page is interactive. So if I click on a bar like I would in a report, the other visuals on it also changed to show the highlighted states. And as I mentioned, if I go back into the report page and change filters for that report page, those filters will reflect here as well. So a pin report page is a great way to add a bunch of charts to your dashboard at the same time and make sure that they stay in sync with the report page. So as you edit filters, you can see those updates in the dashboard right away.