Users have noticed that when they click on a report in a dashboard to view the report details, the values in the report are different from the values displayed on the dashboard. What are the two…

Reports query live data each time they are opened, so the report itself does not need to be refreshed - the discrepancy originates from the dashboard snapshot being outdated, not from a stale report.

Dashboards store a static snapshot of data captured at the last refresh time and do not update automatically in real time, so the dashboard components can display values that no longer match the live data returned when the underlying report is opened directly.

If the current user lacked access to the report folder, they would receive a permissions error and be unable to open the report at all, rather than seeing different numerical values.

A dashboard runs as a designated running user whose record-level visibility and field-level security determine the data shown to all viewers - if the current viewer has different permissions than the running user, drilling into the report reflects the viewer's own access and returns different values.