Add chart interaction filters
Turn your charts into interactive filters.
Chart interaction filters turn your charts into filter controls. When interactions are enabled on a chart, you can filter the report by interacting with that chart in two ways:
Clicking one or more dimension values in the chart.
Dragging, or "brushing," your mouse across a time series, line chart, or area chart.
You can also let viewers drill down into your data.
How chart interaction filters work
Chart interaction filters work in the same way as filter controls. For example, a pie chart based on the Country dimension lets you filter your report in the same way as a filter control based on the Country dimension. Brushing a time series acts in the same way as a date range control.
Chart interaction filters can be restricted to groups, just like filter controls.
Try it out!
This embedded report has interactions enabled for the charts.
To filter the charts, click a Medium in the table or a Country in the pie chart.
To use the time series as a date range filter, click and drag your mouse across part of the chart.
To to select multiple values, use Ctrl + click (Command + click on Mac).
To reset a filter, click on some whitespace in the chart, or right-click then select Reset Action.
To enable chart interactions
Edit your report.
Select a chart.
On the right, scroll to the bottom of the DATA properties panel.
In the Interactions section, select Apply filter.
Repeat these steps for each chart you want to use as a filter.
To reset chart filters
You can reset a chart filter to the default in several ways:
Deselect the selected dimensions by clicking them.
Click somewhere on the border of chart you are filtering by.
Limits of chart interactions
Chart interaction filters aren't available in scorecards or bullet charts.
You can't filter by the "Others" category.
Chart interaction filters are subject to the same limits as filter controls in terms of filtering across data sources.
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