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Buttons on dashboards
What is the challenge? |
The ability to add navigational 'buttons' to dashboards does not currently exist. |
What is the impact? |
To get around this, you can create visual 'button'-like indicators using a shaded table cell and hyperlinked text, but this is not visually attractive and requires the user to click on the text directly (not the broader cell area). This makes for a less visual dashboard, which can decrease credibility with executive stakeholders used to polished PowerPoint and PowerBI dashboard reports. |
Describe your idea |
The ability to add a 'Button' to a Text panel (or add a Button as a panel itself) to a dashboard. This button could then have the shape, background color, text size, and text color adjusted and a hyperlink destination could be selected (ideally including a toggle for whether to open the link in a new tab when the user clicks the button). |
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I think this is a great idea. I currently made a dashboard with several indicators for daily checks, and I added a grid with several hyperlinks to other reports (which are not all fitting into a dashboard), that are used often.
The hyperlinks work well, but after recent changes they always open in the same tab (before they were always opening in a new tab, now you need to CTRL+Click them). Having buttons with a customizable behavior (open in same tab, open in another tab) and visual settings, could make the dashboards more appealing and user friendly.
Thank you for your idea. Can you share more on the use cases where you would add buttons to a dashboard? What would they be used for?