How do I make a dashboard show up in the tabs in SharePoint

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If you want to create an experience like the following, where the users access the dashboard through the top-level SharePoint pages, not through navigating through a document library, here's how you do it.

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1. Deploy your dashboard to SharePoint as usual. You may want to change your master page to be the same one used by the top-level SharePoint site, so it looks consistent. (by default, this is shockingly called "default")

2. In SharePoint, go to Site Settings > Modify Site Settings > Modify Navigation. In this section, add a "Link" as shown below, that references the URL of your dashboard page.

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Greg Bernhardt (gregbern@microsoft.com)