In this blog you will understand some major difference between Power BI dashboard & report.
Report
The Report is a Power BI feature which is a result of visualized data from a single data set. A report can have multiple pages of visualization.
Mostly, you create a report in Power BI Desktop.
Dashboard
A Power BI Dashboard is a single page display screen and collection of single or multiple report visuals, that uses visualizations to tell a summary.
You can create a dashboard only in Power BI Service.
Power BI Dashboards vs. Reports
| Capability | Report | Dashboard |
| Pages | You can create a multiple pages in single Report. | It is a single page display screen. Mainly, used to display the summary data. |
| Available in Power BI Desktop | You can create a Report in Desktop & Power BI Service. | You can create Dashboard only in Power BI Service. |
| Data source | A single dataset per report in Power BI service. | You can use one or more reports and one or more datasets per dashboard at the time of creation. |
| Set alerts | You cannot create an email Data alerts for Power BI Report. | You can create an email Data alerts for Power BI Dashboard tiles when certain conditions are met. |
| Filtering | Report support many filter options like Bookmarks, Filters & Slicers. | Dashboard support only Bookmarks and doesn’t support any other filters & slicers. |
| Featured | Can not set Report as a featured report. | You can set featured dashboard. |
| See underlying dataset tables and fields | Yes, Can see dataset tables and fields and values. | No, You can export data but can’t see tables and fields in the dashboard itself. |
| Can create visualization | Yes, you can create a many different types of visuals, custom visuals | Limited to adding widgets to dashboard using “Add title”. |
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