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Title: Filtering across a tabbed dashboard
Post by: dlblake32 on 03 Mar 2017 03:49:58 PM
I'm working on a dashboard for a client that has multiple tabs using 11.0.5 dashboards.  Is there a way to attach a filter selection on an attribute selector to all tabs so that the user doesn't have to select the same filter as they move from tab to tab?
e.g. Select cost center 12345 which constrains all the data on the first tab already, but passing that filter to each tab within the dashboard.
Thank you.
Title: Re: Filtering across a tabbed dashboard
Post by: MFGF on 04 Mar 2017 11:42:14 AM
Quote from: dlblake32 on 03 Mar 2017 03:49:58 PM
I'm working on a dashboard for a client that has multiple tabs using 11.0.5 dashboards.  Is there a way to attach a filter selection on an attribute selector to all tabs so that the user doesn't have to select the same filter as they move from tab to tab?
e.g. Select cost center 12345 which constrains all the data on the first tab already, but passing that filter to each tab within the dashboard.
Thank you.

Hi,

A similar question came up at a customer session I was at in IBM a couple of weeks ago. Two of the CA product managers were over from Ottawa. They talked about using the data tray at the bottom to apply filters across the entire data set (therefore applying to all tabs the data is used on). I'm not sure if this is a solution in your case though?

Cheers!

MF.
Title: Re: Filtering across a tabbed dashboard
Post by: dlblake32 on 05 Mar 2017 08:33:22 PM
Thanks for the feedback. 
It's less elegant a solution than I'd like but it may be better than having them select 3 items on each tab.