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abhinavt
Cloud Apps
06-18-2024
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Pass Dashboard Filter value to Data Model as a Parameter

Hi Team, I was wondering if there is way to pass one dashboard filter value ( report id ) to the SQL query in the Data Model. We have a scenario, when a user loads the dashboard one of the dashboar...
dashboards & reporting
Data Models
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    abhinavt
    07-31-2024

    Hey David,

    We found a working solution for this, we were advised to convert all our dashboard filters to background filters. Later we made some changes to the code while embedding such that only the relevant selections from our embed platform are passed to each dashboard filter.

    Note :This cannot be done through the frontend dashboard unless we add dependent filters. However, it's great that we found a solution through embedding.

     

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DRay
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07-17-2024

Hello abhinavt.

I wanted to follow up to see if the solution offered by Support or javiers worked for you.

If so, please click the 'Accept as Solution' button on the appropriate post so other users with the same questions can find the answer. If not, please let us know so that we can continue to help.

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abhinavt
Cloud Apps
07-31-2024

Hey David,

We found a working solution for this, we were advised to convert all our dashboard filters to background filters. Later we made some changes to the code while embedding such that only the relevant selections from our embed platform are passed to each dashboard filter.

Note :This cannot be done through the frontend dashboard unless we add dependent filters. However, it's great that we found a solution through embedding.