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Add a standalone tile to a dashboard

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Add a standalone tile to a dashboard

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- [Instructor] There are five types of tiles that we can add directly to a dashboard. They don't come from reports, they come from other locations. We can add text boxes as standalone tiles, and that makes sense because we might want to put a large title. We might want to be able to add text boxes as pullouts in different places in the dashboard. So, text boxes are easy. We can also add images. Images that are online, not an image on your network or your local PC. So you need to take that image in first, store it online, but we already have several great places to do that, including SharePoint and our OneDrive for Business because we need to have a URL for that image. The same thing is true of videos. At this point, Power BI allows us to insert video from two sources, YouTube and Vimeo. I can also add streaming data and other web content. I don't want to add content to my live page tile, so I'm going to instead open my other dashboard that I created, which is called My Retail…

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