Widget Communication dialog box

To access the widget communication, you must switch to Edit mode. When you create a new dashboard, it is automatically switched to Edit mode. When you view a dashboard and want to switch to Edit mode, click the Edit icon on the application toolbar.

By default, parameters that are common to multiple widgets on a dashboard are detected and parameter connections are automatically created. You can use the Widget Communication dialog box to edit the connections, or to dissolve all the automatic connections and create other connections manually. You can also use the Auto-connect new widgets option to reconnect the parameters.

You can turn individual parameter connections on and off, and you can remove individual parameters from a connection. By default, the initial value of the parameter is stored in the dashboard. You can specify that the initial value depends on a parameter of one of the widgets in the parameter connection. The parameter on which the initial value depends is indicated by a blue marker in the Connections pane.

You can also click Advanced Options. The Advanced Options dialog box has two panes Connections and Widgets and Parameters. The Connections pane lists existing parameter connections. You can expand a connection to see the widgets that are connected by it. In the Widgets and Parameters pane, you can expand a widget to see its parameters. Optionally, you can click the link icon to hide parameters that are already part of a parameter connection. To create a parameter connection, drag a parameter from the Widgets and Parameters pane and drop it into the Connections pane. You can then drag further parameters into the connection. You cannot add multiple parameters of a widget to a single parameter connection.

For example, you might have three widgets, each of which has a Date parameter. To connect these widgets, you might create a Current Date connection that contains the Date parameter from each of the three widgets. You might then create another connection that links the three widgets by some other shared parameter, such as Country or Currency. If you select a parameter in the Connections pane, the corresponding parameter is highlighted, and its value is displayed in the Widgets and Parameters pane.