Hi, i just want to provide some quick feedback on the understated / unknown importance of pinning a visual from within a "report" section on Power BI vs pinning a visual from within the "dashboard" section.
To me, the second option was completely unknown to me or rather i thought the two were identical. However, it turns out there are many differences between the two ways to pin a visual live to a dashboard. Especially since the Power BI Service update where you can set up data alerts. When pinning from a report, you will not actually see the bell icon for alerts, or any of the other options (like "export).
I took me about two weeks to figure out that the data alert will only work if i pin something from the DASHBOARD, and not from the REPORT. This was not too clear in any of the documentation or even the forum posts about the matter.
In fact, it's quite counter-intuitive to first have to "pin live" a page to the dashboard, and then go into the pinned page and pin it again? Plus, if you have multiple visuals within the report page, how do you even pin only one of them to the dashboard?
To me, the whole pinning feature is quite confusing and i don't understand the underlying logic behind it, from a UX point of view.