Pinning to a Dashboard

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Tue 1 Nov 2022, 16:22 Delegate Lauren said...

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Pinning to a Dashboard

Hi Jens,

I'm attempting to pin a couple of visuals from a report onto a dashboard, but when I click on the pins nothing is happening. Weirdly I am able to pin other visuals from the same report. I'm looking to pin the visuals themselves as opposed to the whole report pages (these I do seem to be able to pin).

For context, I downloaded a pre-existing report from the service to desktop in order to make use of the dataset for this report. Not sure if that could be relevant!

Any thoughts on what might be causing this?

Thanks,
Lauren

Wed 2 Nov 2022, 10:54 Trainer Jens said...

RE: Pinning to a Dashboard

Hi Lauren,

Thank you for the forum question.

Some visuals cannot be pinned to a dashboard and there can be a number of reason, why a visual cannot be pinned.

You can't pin tiles from reports that are shared with you.

Some special custom visual or slicer visual, it is not supported to pin to dashboard.

I haven't had this problem, but I have Googled problems pin to dashboard.

Some got error messages when they tried to pin.

For some users it resolved the problem by updating Power BI to the latest version.

Others did the steps below.

1. Remove report and related dataset from service.
2. Publish report one more time from desktop version.
3. Pin appropriate visual to dashboard.

P.S. Re-saving or republishing doesn't help, only remove and publish in my case.

I am sorry but I cannot really tell you what the problem is in your case and how to solve it, but I hope that this answer can help you anyway.

Kind regards

Jens Bonde
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Tue 8 Nov 2022, 14:59 Delegate Lauren said...

RE: Pinning to a Dashboard

Hi Jens,

Thank you for your suggestions. I tried them but then did some more research and discovered that it's actually a bug which others have experienced too, and which has been reported to Microsoft. The current workaround is to go into Edit and toggle the visual title off and on again, after which the pinning works. Just in case anyone else mentions it!

Thanks,
Lauren

Tue 8 Nov 2022, 14:59 Delegate Lauren said...

RE: Pinning to a Dashboard

Tue 8 Nov 2022, 16:32 Trainer Jens said...

RE: Pinning to a Dashboard

Thank you so much Lauren.

Very useful for me to know this.

Kind regards

Jens Bonde
Microsoft Office Specialist Trainer

Tel: 0207 987 3777
STL - https://www.stl-training.co.uk
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London's leader with UK wide delivery in Microsoft Office training and management training to global brands, FTSE 100, SME's and the public sector

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