How to Create a Landing Page in Power BI Dashboard (Pro First Page) Easily 2026

Start from your Power BI report and add a new page specifically for this purpose. Name it something like "LANDING PAGE" so it's unmistakable in the page tab list, and drag it to the far left so it's the first thing anyone sees when the report opens.

Keep this page visually separate from your working report pages; its job is orientation, not analysis, so resist the urge to cram a full chart onto it just because there's empty space available. Think of it as a table of contents, not another data page.

Drop a visual onto the canvas before you've decided exactly what data it will show. Power BI displays it as an empty gray placeholder reading "Select or drag fields to populate this visual," which is a normal, useful intermediate state and not something to worry about.

Use it to block out the layout, deciding how much of the page a hero visual or summary chart should occupy relative to the surrounding whitespace, before committing to specific fields. Resize and reposition it a few times until the balance of the page feels right. It's faster to move an empty box around than to keep rebuilding a fully populated chart every time you want to try a different layout.

Place a text box or title element at the top of the page with your organization or dashboard name. Keep it short and immediately legible, since it's the first text a viewer reads before anything else on the page registers.

Give it its own font weight or size so it reads as a page heading, not another chart label competing for attention. A one-line subtitle underneath, noting what the dashboard covers or how often it refreshes, adds useful context without turning the page into a wall of text.

This is the part a lot of landing pages skip, then end up faking with a row of hand-built buttons. On the Insert tab, select Buttons > Navigator > Page navigator (in the Power BI service, it's the same path from the menu bar in edit mode).

Power BI builds a row of buttons for you, one per report page, and keeps it in sync on its own: button labels match each page's display name, their order matches your page order, and both update automatically as you rename, add, or reorder pages. In Desktop or service edit mode, hold Ctrl and select a button to test where it navigates.

With the navigator selected, open the Format navigator pane and look under Pages, where you'll find toggles for showing hidden pages and showing tooltip pages, plus a Show list that lets you turn the button for any individual page on or off. Turn off the button for anything that's a work-in-progress or a tooltip-only helper page, so the navigator only exposes what's ready for viewers.

That Show list only controls the navigator's own buttons. It doesn't hide the underlying page.

A page can still be reached by URL, by another navigator, or by a manually placed button even with its navigator entry turned off. To remove a page from the report's tab strip, right-click that page's tab and choose Hide instead.

A landing page loses credibility fast if the summary numbers on it go stale while the detail pages behind it stay current. A viewer who spots a stale headline number tends to distrust the rest of the report too, even if the deeper pages are perfectly up to date.

Configure a scheduled refresh for the underlying dataset in the Power BI service, so the figures a viewer sees on first load are never more than a refresh cycle old. This matters more on a landing page than anywhere else in the report, since it's the number people remember even if they never click through to see anything else.

Many viewers will open a dashboard, glance at the landing page, and leave without navigating further. Treat that as a design constraint, not a failure state to fight.

Put the one or two numbers that matter most front and center, keep navigation obvious and sparse, and save deep drill-down detail for the pages behind the landing page instead of trying to fit everything onto the first screen. If you find yourself wanting to add a fifth or sixth summary tile, that's usually a sign it belongs on a dedicated overview page one click deeper, not on the landing page itself.

The page navigator is the fastest path to working navigation, but its button text always matches a page's technical display name. When you want business-friendly labels instead, like "Sales Overview" instead of "Page 3," build individual buttons by hand: Insert > Buttons > Blank, then in the Format button pane turn Action on, set Type to Page navigation, and pick the destination page. Unlike the navigator, these buttons don't relabel themselves if you rename a page later, so budget a few minutes to check them after any page rename.