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Title: Are Navigation Paths intended to be reusable across multiple Dashboards?
Post by: FerdH4 on 04 Oct 2023 12:47:36 PM
1. I'm using Dashboards 11.2. 
2. I've created a new Navigation Path.
3. I've saved and closed the related Dashboard in which I first created that Navigation Path.
4. When I open another new Dashboard and select the same source data package, there isn't any obvious navigation to see or access any preexisting Navigation Paths.

This leads me to suspect that Navigation Paths are only useful within a single Dashboard...but I want to be wrong.

Any navigational hints for me?

Title: Re: Are Navigation Paths intended to be reusable across multiple Dashboards?
Post by: MFGF on 04 Oct 2023 03:22:26 PM
Quote from: FerdH4 on 04 Oct 2023 12:47:36 PM
1. I'm using Dashboards 11.2. 
2. I've created a new Navigation Path.
3. I've saved and closed the related Dashboard in which I first created that Navigation Path.
4. When I open another new Dashboard and select the same source data package, there isn't any obvious navigation to see or access any preexisting Navigation Paths.

This leads me to suspect that Navigation Paths are only useful within a single Dashboard...but I want to be wrong.

Any navigational hints for me?

Hi,

The trick is to set up the navigation paths in a data module, and base your dashboards on this module. If you set them up within a dashboard, they only apply to that one dashboard.

Cheers!

MF.
Title: Re: Are Navigation Paths intended to be reusable across multiple Dashboards?
Post by: FerdH4 on 05 Oct 2023 07:51:01 AM
That's the comprehensive answer I was looking for. 

Thanks MFGF.