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Solution: Dashboard actions

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Solution: Dashboard actions

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(upbeat music) - [Narrator] Here's my solution for the Dashboard action exercise. First thing we need to do is add a highlight action. This is going to work where if we select Region, it'll highlight the relevant values in other sheets. So for this, we're just going to create a highlight action. First, we go up to the Dashboard menu item, click on Actions, and the Add Action is a Highlight. Now we need to decide which sheets this is going to work on. Well we have Regional Sales Timeline, we have the Regional Sales and Product, so it makes sense to use those two. The Employee Ratings also might be useful because we maybe want to see which employees work for which particular region. But the Sales by Employee, that doesn't necessarily make sense because there's no regional information within that, and it'd be hard to show that. So let's untick that one and we'll untick the Employee Ratings because we don't use that as the actioned trigger, we use the Select as the action. And whenever we…

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