Not seeing pinned Dashboards on home page

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I upgraded from 0.24 to 0.30 a few months ago and knew that the ui was quite different. I had problems finding my dashboards and knew that was part of the change but couldn't understand it and left it for a while. I am finally back and trying to get 0.30 to work they way we need it. I have the dashboards pinned yet they don't appear on the home page. Under Start Here, it said that if they were pinned they would appear. I 'x'ed out of Start Here hoping that the message was somehow preventing the dashboards from appearing but that wasn't the case.

I just upgraded to 0.31.2 and changed the settings to hide the x-rays. It seems no matter what I do, I can't get the dashboards to appear on the home page. I am logged in as the admin so everything should appear.

Here is Our Analytics with the dashboards pinned:

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Here is my home page (with xrays hidden):

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What am I missing?

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Hi @sldorman

Have you tried adding dashboard to “Our analytics” and then pinning them?
Took me a little while to figure that out after upgrading.

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Hi @flamber,

How do I do that? Under Our Analytics, I have the Query Tool collection which has the dashboards pinned. I don't see any way to actually pin them directly under Our Analytics. When I go to Our Analytics, everything is a collection:

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@sldorman
Move the dashboard from your “Query Tool” collection to “Our analytics” - and when you go to the page (your screenshot), then you will get the option to pin the dashboard, which then will be shown on the front page.

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Thanks for the info @flamber but doesn’t that go against the purpose of the collections? I want the dashboards in the QueryTool collection because that’s where they belong. If I have a different collection with dashboards that also should be shown on the home page, I would still want them to remain in the proper collection. Putting everything under Our Analytics makes the collections useless.

Controlling the permissions via collections seems to have changed as well. I only see Our Analytics in the collection permissions which means I can’t block users from seeing collections I don’t want them to see.

The changes are very confusing and seem to have taken away control of what (and how) the user sees things. Ideally, I want the user to come to a home page with just the dashboards that person should see - no databases or collections. I then want to have all the questions, dashboards and databases organized by purpose (i.e. collections). I’m either missing some major conceptual change or the new version is missing features.

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@sldorman
Yes, I totally agree with you, but Collections are completely finished yet.
There’s a couple of issues outstanding in the upcoming version 0.32:
https://github.com/metabase/metabase/milestone/72

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Thanks @flamber, that was helpful and it’s nice to know some of the issues are being addressed.

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@flamber would you mind explaining if there is a planned change to this behavior in 0.32? I looked through the issues in that milestone but didn’t see anything about pinning or organizing dashboards in collections.

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@ross
Looks like it’s this issue - which isn’t currently part of 0.32 milestone:

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OK thanks for the link!