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Add interaction with actions

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- [Instructor] One of the best ways to add interaction to a dashboard is using dashboard actions. Now, the reason we do this is because we want our users to really engage with our dashboard. We spent a load of time gathering the data, analyzing the data, producing the dashboard, so we really want to have a nice user experience for them. Now, the dashboard actions invite the user to play with our dashboard. Rather than clicking on drop-downs or filters, actually interacting with the elements as part of the dashboard, click on the marks, the bars, the lines, really brings the dashboard to life. Now, there are six different types of actions that we can apply to our sheets within our dashboard. So we have filter actions, highlight actions, URL actions. There's a go to action, and then there are set actions and parameter actions. So let's have a look at these in a little bit more detail to understand why we might use one rather than the other. So firstly, filter actions. Now, a filter…

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