While tiles can be added from a variety of sources, certain types of tiles can be added directly to the dashboard. These types of tiles are as follows:

• Web content
• Image
• Textbox
• Video
• Custom streaming data

Choosing to add a tile brings up the Add tile pane. This pane walks you through creating the desired type of tile. For images and video, these simply require a URL link to the desired content. For videos, these must be YouTube or Vimeo URLs. Uploading your own images and video isn't supported. Textboxes simply require you to enter the text that you want to be displayed, along with any desired formatting. Web content tiles take an embed code, which is generally in the form of an IFRAME.

Finally, streaming data can be in the form of the following:

• API (push datasets)
• Azure Stream
• PubNub