Tile details and custom links

Custom links are an important component of multi-dashboard architectures, and particularly the organizational dashboard architecture described in the previous section. In the absence of custom links, clicking a dashboard tile opens the report page from which the visual was pinned to the dashboard. Custom links allow BI teams to take control of the navigation experience and enable users to navigate directly to another dashboard with related information or even to an external site, such as a team site on SharePoint Online.

Tile details can be accessed by hovering over the top-right corner of a dashboard tile, clicking the ellipsis, and then selecting Edit details. In the following image from the Tile details window, ...

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