For clarification, this is Delivered in the Canvas Dashboards presentation of a dashboard. When report that has a description is placed on a Canvas Dashboard, users will see the info icon to the right of the report name and can view the description.

We plan on providing a dashboard delivery option for the Canvas Dashboard dashboarding capabilities. 

This is being addressed through the Canvas Dashboards reporting surface and is available now.Both classic reports placed on a Canvas Dashboard as well as new canvas-based visualizations will have an information icon to the right of the report name to display the report description.    

I cannot provide specifics around timing. We are continuing our work to progress to a beta capability that we announced at Summit in March.

The placement of Canvas Dashboards on a layout template is one of the next items on our roadmap. We recognize adoption of this new reporting surface will be difficult without this functionality.

@RT_Ops ... Madalyn's reply is spot on. One of the primary enhancements we plan on making available through the new Canvas Dashboard reporting options is to allow you to include data from Boards ...and other newer parts of the Workfront application that are not currently reportable. This includes th...

We have no plans to add a search capability to the reports inventory at this time.We will look for opportunities to provide improved search options as we continue our investment in Canvas Dashboards.