title: Can I build a Dashboard in Sharepoint Online?
body: <p>I would like to create a dashboard in Sharepoint Online <a href="http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/sharepoint-online-online-collaboration-software-FX103789366.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/sharepoint-online-online-collaboration-software-FX103789366.aspx</a>.</p>
  
  <p>I have seen references to a Dashboard Designer <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff806339.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff806339.aspx</a>, but have not found a way to install it.  I think it might be available from a link in the on-premise SharePoint online.</p>
  
  <p>I also installed the "Office Developer Tools for VisualStudio 2012".  When I try to create a "SharePoint 2013 - Visual Web Part", it says "The required version of SharePoint Foundation 2013 ... is not installed on this system".  This leads me to think I have to install VisualStudio on our server, which I can't do (SharePoint is online).</p>
  
  <p>I would like my dashboard to retrieve data from an external data source (an Azure database), so I don't just want to publish a spreadsheet.  I've already created an external list to retrieve the data, I now want to put it into a webpart.</p>
  
  <p>Is it possible to build Dashboards in SharePoint online?  </p>