Add dashboard level filters
You can add dahsboard level fitlers to filter for common dimensions like time and user. Once common usecase is to filter all visualizations by a given time range. We will explore this usecase here.
This tutorial assumes you have already creatd a dashboard as described in Create A Chart Dashboard page
- Open the created dashboard
- Click the "Gear" icon on the top right corner to open the dashboard editor
- Click the top right corner of the visualization to open the visualization editor
- In the visualization editor add a new Filter
- In the new filter entry choose 'Timestamp' as the field
- Then choose "In Date Range" as the operator
- Leave the actual fitler value empty
- Click
Save
button to save the visualization - Now come back to the dashboard editor page and refresh the same
- Click
Add Filter
from the top - Under label add
Timestamp
- Under Source select
Chat Facts
- Under Memeber select
Timestamp
- Click
Save
to create this new filter - Now we need to link the created dashboard filter to the visualization filter
- Hover your mouse cursor over the top section of the visualization.
- Click the link icon to open the filter mapping modal
- Against the Timestamp entry, select
Timestamp
from the Dashboard Filter selector - Click
Update
- Click
Save
to save the dashboard
Thats it now your dashboard is configured with a top level filter which you can change to quickly look at metrics from different time spans