> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://failfast.ai/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Dashboards and reports

> Build interactive dashboards for live monitoring and pixel-perfect reports for printable, parameterized documents.

Fail Fast gives you two complementary reporting tools. Dashboards are interactive analytics for exploring and monitoring your data in real time. Reports are pixel-perfect documents designed for printing and formal distribution.

<Tabs>
  <Tab title="Dashboards">
    Dashboards are interactive analytics built over your workspace data. You assemble them with a drag-and-drop dashboard designer, placing items such as:

    * Charts
    * Pivot tables
    * KPIs and indicators
    * Maps
    * Funnels
    * Gantt charts
    * Embedded web pages

    among the available items.

    ### Where dashboards appear

    You can use a dashboard in three places:

    * As a **Dashboard** view on any table — see [views](/docs/data/views).
    * As a **Dashboard** block inside a page — see the [block editor](/docs/platform/block-editor).
    * As a standalone dashboard page.

    This means the same analytics can live next to the data they describe, inside a documentation page for context, or as a page of their own for a team's daily monitoring.
  </Tab>

  <Tab title="Reports">
    Reports are pixel-perfect, printable documents — formatted statements, official documents, anything where layout matters as much as the numbers.

    * The **Report Designer** defines the report's layout.
    * The **Report Viewer** runs a report, prompting you for parameters — like date ranges — before rendering the result.

    Once rendered, reports can be exported and printed. You can also embed a report in a page as a **Report** block, so a team page can carry its formal documents alongside its content.

    Formatted financial statements are a typical use — see [accounting](/docs/finance/accounting).
  </Tab>
</Tabs>

<Tip>
  **When to use which:** reach for a dashboard when you want live monitoring and free exploration — filtering, drilling, watching numbers move. Reach for a report when you need a formatted statement or a printable document that looks exactly the same every time it runs.
</Tip>

## Common tasks

### Add a dashboard view to a table

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the table">
    Navigate to the table whose data you want to analyze.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add a Dashboard view">
    Create a new view and choose the **Dashboard** type. See [views](/docs/data/views) for how views work.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Design the dashboard">
    Use the drag-and-drop designer to place charts, KPIs, pivots, and other items over the table's data.
  </Step>
</Steps>

### Run a parameterized report

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the report">
    Open the report in the **Report Viewer**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Enter the parameters">
    Fill in the parameters the report asks for, such as the date range it should cover.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Render and share">
    Render the report, then export or print it as needed.
  </Step>
</Steps>