Understanding Tiles

Make infinitely more useful and tailored dashboards & forms for individuals, teams or departments using D365 Tiles. Encourage user-adoption and exploration!

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Key Features

• Use Tiles in entirely new Dashboards, or add to existing ones
• Use Tiles on Entity Record forms to add convenient Tile links
• Tiles can Link To dashboards, views, records, external url’s
• Provide intuitive sizes, icons, colors, titles and tooltips
• Encourages user-adoption and exploration
• Clean up that long list of Dashboards by consolidating them

What are Tile Sets?

• Tile Sets are records you create to house a collection of Tiles

*the Tile Set shown on a dashboard in above picture is a collection of 8 x Tiles

See also: For more info please see the Creating Tile Sets article

What are Tiles?

• Tiles are the physical buttons that have size, color, text and links
• You will be creating many Tile Sets that each have many Tiles within
• When you click on a Tile it will pop open a new window (or tab depending on your browser settings)

Tiles themselves are flexible in nature, while keeping it simple to produce useful results fast. There is a set of parameters to customize each Tile.

• Sequence In what order the Tiles will display on your Tile Set left to right
• Title The title that will be displayed
• Tooltip The tooltip that will be displayed when hovered over
• Size Square, Thin, Wide, Large
• Color Color when hovered over (Hex Color picker available)
• Icon Link to the Web Resource image for your icon
• Link To Dashboard, View, Create A Record, Open Existing Record, External URL

See also: For more info please see the Creating Tiles article