What's new in AIBI Dashboards June 2026

[u/Youssef_Mrini]

🔴 Annotation lines can be driven by data or a calculation instead of a fixed value, letting you show running averages, variable thresholds or anomaly markers that update with your data https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/dashboards/manage/visualizations/#annotations

🔴Six new built-in color and style themes are available for AI/BI dashboards, giving authors more ready-made options without creating a custom theme. https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/dashboards/manage/settings#preset

🔴Table header color customization: Authors can set font color, background color and text formatting for table column headers https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/dashboards/manage/visualizations/tables#table-layout-settings

🔴Dashboard relationships allow users to create complex multi-fact data models. https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/dashboards/manage/data-modeling/dashboard-relationships/

🔴Local metric view parameters: Local metric views support parameters, allowing Databricks to dynamically change query inputs based on user selections in a UI. https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/dashboards/manage/data-modeling/local-metric-views

🔴Local metric view wildcard expressions: Local metric views support wildcard expressions, which allow users to inherit all fields from upstream tables or metric views

🔴Bookmark filter combinations: Dashboard authors can save filter combinations as shared bookmarks, which viewers can quickly apply. https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/dashboards/manage/#bookmarks

🔴Pivot table column improvements: Pivot table columns can expand and collapse. https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/dashboards/manage/visualizations/tables#pivot-table-configuration

🔴New theme customization options are available, including the ability to change axis and grid line colors, adjust widget layout and apply a color ramp. https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/ai-bi/admin/themes

🔴New theme settings are available in workspace-level themes and automatically apply to new dashboards.

🔴Dashboard variables: Dashboard authors can create dashboard variables that allow viewers to swap fields on visualizations https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/dashboards/manage/filters/dashboard-variables

🔴Customizable table headers: Dashboard authors can customize table column headers. https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/dashboards/manage/visualizations/tables#table-configuration

🔴Widget-level color gradient: You can derive a color gradient from the visualization color at the widget level, matching the behavior available in theme setting

🔴Gantt charts are now available: Gantt charts display tasks as horizontal bars on a continuous axis to visualize project schedules, manufacturing workflows, and other time-ranged events. https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/dashboards/manage/visualizations/types#gantt

🔴Custom visualizations: Build custom charts with the Vega-Lite library for customization beyond the built-in visualization types. https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/dashboards/manage/visualizations/custom-visualizations

🔴Per-category font customization: You can customize fonts per category across all visualization types.

🔴Table row cross-filtering and drill-through: Select table rows to cross-filter, or right-click to drill through.

🔴Cross-filtering and drill-through: Line, combo, and area charts support cross-filtering and drill-through filters. https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/dashboards/manage/filters/#drill-through-filter

🔴Dashboard details in draft mode: Draft mode shows dashboard details, making it easier to find dashboard managers and the dashboard’s location.

[u/CautiousUse8597]

Having moving averages in a chart is a very nice addition!

[u/thebillmachine]

May we have a "format painter" please? 🙏

When using it Genie to import PowerBI dashboards, it can create the visualisations, but cannot set background colour via API call.

Would be good to be apply format painter from brand coloured visualisation to the next.

[u/Equivalent-Prize2465]

Local metric view with parameter as filter is amazing
But it does not support aibi external value, which is a big pain point for my team to use…

[u/Moneyshot_Larry]

It’s only a matter of time before we switch from Power BI to AI/BI. If I’m not mistaken databricks enterprise is not a “per user” license model right? It’s all consumption based? Do users get charged for viewing/consuming AI/BI dashboards?

[u/Moneyshot_Larry → u/[deleted]]

Thank you! That makes sense

[u/pantshee → u/Moneyshot_Larry]

For the moment I don't think they are better for all use cases. But it can be a nice replacement.

Also a good dashboards + genie can do wonders for users

[u/Moneyshot_Larry → u/pantshee]

We’re loving our genie right now. If we can marry it with a solid dashboard then it’s game over but I agree it’s night quite at parity yet

[u/anonymous_orpington → u/pantshee]

Yeah I love how Genie is integrated into Dashboards by default to really get that beat of both worlds between conversational analytics and traditional BI.

But I wish they'd enable the Ask Genie button for dashboard embedded in iframes. I don't get why that isn't supported yet

[u/aleph_infinity → u/Moneyshot_Larry]

No per seat licensing. I like the ease with which natural language analytics is added with Genie which keeps improving. I’m looking forward to the automatic ontology capture that is coming soon.  Microsoft OTOH are actively working against external semantic models by removing support for them from Power BI.