Dashboards are an excellent way to quickly gain insights into the most important aspects of your data. With integrated filters, you can easily slice and dice your data across different reports at once.
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Dashboards are made up of a collection of dashlets or reports, and to successfully integrate these reports, make sure that the filters you want to use across each report in your dashboard match. For example, if you want to filter your reports by course, then you need to ensure that each report has the exactly the same filter.
For this example, we’ll use the Course Full Name and ID field as a filter across three different reports. We have set this filter up with the operator “Equals” because we want to view the end results by one course at a time.
Reports used in this example:
Instructions:
Once you select your filter and click Apply, you should see each of the dashlets loading. This is a good sign! That means you’ve successfully mapped the parameters.
It can also be a good idea to add a text box with instructions to use the filter:
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