Set actions, parameter actions, dynamic zones and buttons
Build Dynamic Zone Visibility on a valid Boolean field or parameter, configure Show/Hide and Navigation buttons, and choose the run and clearing options of set actions and parameter actions, including what breaks them.
Add interactivity to dashboards: Use filter in a dashboard; Add filter, URL, and highlight actions; Create interactivity using dynamic zone visibility; Add navigation buttons; Create interactivity using set and parameter actions; Create show/hide buttons for dashboard objects.
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What the exam expects
- Make a dashboard zone appear or disappear automatically with Dynamic Zone Visibility, and fix a field that is missing from its list.
- Choose between Dynamic Zone Visibility and a Show/Hide button, and configure and repair Show/Hide buttons.
- Add Navigation buttons that take viewers to other sheets, dashboards or stories.
- Pick a set action's run and clearing options, and configure a parameter action's source field, aggregation and clearing.
Dashboard filters and filter, highlight and URL actions are in Filter, highlight and URL dashboard actions (basics: the Desktop Foundations units Dashboard filter, highlight and URL actions and Filter cards, highlighters, tooltips and parameter controls). Sets and parameters are defined in Sets, groups, bins and hierarchies and Parameters in calculations, filters and reference lines.
Key terms:
- Dynamic Zone Visibility (DZV): hides or reveals a tiled or floating zone from a field or parameter value.
- Show/Hide button: a button viewers click to toggle one dashboard object.
- Navigation object: a button that opens another sheet, dashboard or story.
- Change Set Values: the set action, which rewrites a set's members from selected marks.
- Change Parameter: the parameter action, which writes a source field's value into a parameter.
Key facts
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- Boolean, single value, independent of the viz
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- Zone's Layout tab > Control visibility using value
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- Doesn't work when the worksheet is used in Stories
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- One Show/Hide button per object at a time
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- Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (macOS)
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- Lists sheets outside the current dashboard
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- Adds selected values; existing members stay
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- Clearing option that puts every value in the set
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- Can't be used together
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- Doesn't run for marks with different values
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- Keep current value or Set value to
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- Parameter, then Set, then other types
- Why might a Boolean calculation you created be missing from Control visibility using value?
- When does a hidden tiled object leave blank space instead of being filled?
- Which set action option removes only the marks the viewer selects?
- When does a Select parameter action with Aggregation None fail to run?
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