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Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
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3 years ago

Data driven Buttons?

I have a report made of many tiles depicting the company KPI's.  I can quickly switch the KPI on display as I have a lookup table that contains all of the KPI config details.  The switch is controlled by a Visual level filter on the card.

 

I also have transparent buttons that overlay the card visuals to control the navigation action.  I can't find a way to achieve the same behaviour on the button as there is not a "Visual level Filter" option on buttons.  I want my buttons to lookup the KPI table as above and pick up the relevant URL.  

 

At present each button has to be individually and manually configured with the URL.

 

Can anyone think of a good solution?

 

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    3 years ago

    Further info:

     

    Two contributing factors are preventing this from working the way I'd like:

     

    1. The OKViz Card visual does not have an "Action" configuration to handle URL navigation
    2. Cannot apply a "Visual Level Filter" to Buttons

     

  • v-chenwuz-msft's avatar
    v-chenwuz-msft
    Community Support
    3 years ago

    Hi  Anonymous , 

    A workaround:

     

    Steps:

    button action -> web url -> fx -> field value

     

     

    edit interactions

     

    Pbix in the end you can refer. 

    Best Regards

    Community Support Team _ chenwu zhu

     

    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

     

     

     

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      3 years ago

      Hi Chenwu,

       

      Good thinking and thanks for the response.  This is a solution that I originally tested to control the Vard Visual. 

       

      This solution does work; however, with this solution you must disable the Slicer Interaction on all visuals that the slicer is not relevant to.  I have 40+ card visuals with buttons.  This means I would need to disable circa 1521 slicer interactions.  (1* 39 * 39)

       

      I figured out how to do this better using a simple filter for the Card visuals (Filters on this visual).  Unfortunately, there is no "Filters on this visual" for Buttons. 😞

       

      Thank you for taking the time to reply and for your suggestion.

       

      Steven