AML Dashboard Interactions

The interactions list in a dashboard wires control blocks to visualization blocks. When a viewer interacts with a control (e.g. a DateDrillBlock), Holistics applies the change to all mapped visualization blocks.

Dashboard my_dashboard {
  // ... blocks ...

  interactions: [
    DateDrillInteraction { ... }
  ]
}

Currently, DateDrillInteraction is the interaction type configurable in AML. Other interactions (cross-filtering, drill-through, drill-down) are configured through the dashboard UI, not AML.

DateDrillInteraction

DateDrillInteraction connects a DateDrillBlock to one or more visualization blocks, mapping a date field in each target block to the viewer-selected time granularity.

Parameter	Description
`from`	Name of the `DateDrillBlock` that drives this interaction.
`to`	List of `CustomMapping` objects, one per target visualization block.

CustomMapping

Each CustomMapping entry specifies a target block and which date field in that block should be transformed.

Parameter	Description
`block`	Name of the target `VizBlock` (as a string).
`field`	Reference to the date field to transform, using `r(model.field)` syntax.

Example

Dashboard sales {
  block d1: DateDrillBlock {
    label: 'Drill by'
    default: 'month'
  }

  block v1: VizBlock {
    label: 'Revenue Over Time'
    viz: LineChart { dataset: ecommerce }
  }

  block v2: VizBlock {
    label: 'Orders Over Time'
    viz: BarChart { dataset: ecommerce }
  }

  interactions: [
    DateDrillInteraction {
      from: 'd1'
      to: [
        CustomMapping { block: 'v1', field: r(orders.created_at) },
        CustomMapping { block: 'v2', field: r(orders.created_at) }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Other interaction types

These interactions are configured through the dashboard UI rather than AML code:

Cross-filtering: clicking a data point in one visualization filters others. See Cross-filtering.
Drill-through: clicking a data point navigates to another dashboard. See Drill-through.
Drill-down / Break-down: viewers add dimensions on the fly. See Drill-down & break-down.

DateDrillInteraction​

CustomMapping​

Example​

Other interaction types​

See also​

DateDrillInteraction

CustomMapping

Example

Other interaction types

See also