Inter-panel Communication

In this blog we are going to learn how to implement inter panel communication on table i.e. clicking on one column of the table the other panels of the dashboard should get updated. In case if you want to implement inter panel communication on charts you should refer to this blog

Parent report: Primary report to which the Inter-panel communication functionality is to be applied

Child report: Secondary report which will reflect the data according to the click on the parent report columns

Note: Child report should have a filter which would be the input parameter to be passed in parent report. It is always better to create the Child report first.

Example:
Let us create a tabular report of Employees and their expenses. We will then apply Inter-panel communication functionality on the Employee name; so if any of the employee names is clicked, a report showing Travel date and Destination will refresh and show data for that particular selected Employee name.

So in this case, parent report is the one which shows Employee name & Expenses. And Child report is the one which shows Destination & Travel date.

We will first see how to create the child report. Following are the steps to create child report:

Step 1: Create a report with Destination & Travel date as columns

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Step 2: Now add ‘Employee name’ column in the filter section and edit the filter

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Step 3: Select mode & values as ‘auto’. Select any employee name as a default

Step 4: Click on Generate report

Step 5: Save this report in the file repository by giving an appropriate name

The child report is now ready. We can now make the parent report to which IPC functionality is to be applied. Following are the steps to create a parent report:

Step 1: Create a tabular report with Employee name & Expense as columns

Step 2: Click on the ‘Customize’ button

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Step 3: Double-click on ‘Drill down’ icon and select the column on which the drill down functionality is to be applied. Then click on more

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Step 4: Select the column on which IPC is to be applied, click on enable IPC, & select the filter of the child report.

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Step 5: Click on ‘OK’ and then click on the apply tick mark

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Step 6: Save this report in the file repository by giving an appropriate name

Step 7: Now open dashboard designer and drag the parent and child report in the dashboard canvas

Step 8: Click on the edit icon of the child report and set the listener with the appropriate input parameter.

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Users can now see that if any employee name is clicked from the parent report, the child report refreshes and shows data for that particular employee.

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Your dashboard can also have multiple panels whose value should get changed when clicked on the parent report. So all those other panels also can be added to the dashboard canvas (they should also have the relevant filter i.e. in this case the other reports also should have employee_name filter) you can click on edit and apply listeners to them as well.
Thus multiple charts can be updated simultaneously by adding the relevant listener and input parameters to the charts.

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