Specify actions for widgets

You can assign actions to specific widgets (for example, charts, traffic light, label, image). The actions either select and apply data in widgets, or open another dashboard tab, or open a specific URL.

You can specify a data selection for a specific widget on a dashboard tab, for example, a column in a table. The widget is then displayed with the selected data applied. If the selected data also serves as a filter for other widgets, these widgets are filtered accordingly.

Depending on the selected widget, the actions are triggered by clicking a widget, by a mouse over event or by a selection change event.

On mouse over events are performed if you move your mouse pointer over a data point of a widget, for example, a coordinate of a line chart. On selection change events are performed if you click a data point in a chart or if you delete a data selection in a widget.

For the Grid widget additional trigger options can be available, depending on your Grid widget settings. That are On "item" click and On "item" traffic light click. Whereby "item" is a placeholder for a column name. In the Grid widget settings you can make column cells clickable for triggering actions. See Assign data columns to grids for details.

You can use the defined action in the dashboard view mode. Depending on the widget, you can delete a selection by clicking in the background or selecting the Clear selection option in the pop-up menu (Show menu) of the widget.