You have a Power Bl report named Report1 and a dashboard named Dashboard1, Report1 contains a line chart named Sales by month. You pin the Sales by…

When a visual from a Power BI report is pinned to a dashboard, it creates a tile that is a snapshot of the visual at that moment. Subsequent changes to the visual's type (e.g., from a line chart to a bar chart) in the source report are not automatically reflected on the dashboard tile. The tile will continue to refresh its data, but its visual configuration remains unchanged. To display the new bar chart on the dashboard, you must pin the updated visual from the report, which will create a new tile.

A. Edit the details for the dashboard tile of Dashboard1.

Editing tile details allows for changes to the title, subtitle, and link, but it does not allow you to change the underlying visual type of the tile itself.

B. Select Refresh visuals for Dashboard1.

This action forces a data refresh for the tiles on the dashboard. It updates the data displayed but does not update the visual's type or formatting from the source report.

D. Refresh the dataset used by Report1 and Dashboard1.

Refreshing the dataset updates the underlying data for all associated reports and dashboard tiles. This will not change the visual type of an already pinned tile.

1. Microsoft Learn. (2023). Pin a tile to a Power BI dashboard from a report.

Section: "Pin a tile from a report"

Content: "If you change the visualization in the report after you pin it

the dashboard tile doesn't change. For example

if you pin a line chart and then change it to a bar chart in the report

the dashboard tile remains a line chart. The data in the tile refreshes

but the visualization type doesn't. To see the bar chart on the dashboard

pin it to the dashboard as well." This directly supports the correct answer (C) and explains why the other options are incorrect.

2. Microsoft Learn. (2023). Introduction to dashboards for Power BI designers.

Section: "Dashboards versus reports"

Content: This document clarifies the distinction

noting that a dashboard is a single canvas with tiles and that tiles are snapshots of visuals pinned from reports. This foundational concept explains why a change in the report doesn't automatically propagate to the dashboard's visual structure.