Dynamic content

The "Dynamic content" options are available for all objects. For Text box objects (prior versions: Layout objects) and Menu items, in captions and subcaptions - for other objects, in Title, Labels and Mouse overs.

Generally, the options are:

    • Members - typically for displaying first / last / all members of the selected dimension according to the filtered data set.
    • Criteria - will show the actual criteria for the selected dimension regardless of the result of the filtered data set.
    • Dimension - a handy way of inserting the name of a dimension. Will dynamically change according to end-user language.
    • Measure - a handy way of inserting the name of a measure. Will dynamically change according to end-user language.
    • System variables - a number of informational, useful and auto generated text strings.

 
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  • Hello,

    How can I add a measure to a text box? In the Dynamic Content menu I only see Measure Name.

    For example Customer Name - Credit Limit USD. I have a report with a iteration per customer.

     

    Thanks!

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  • Hi Frank,

    You cannot add a measure value to a Text box - only the measure name, as you already discovered.

    Potential work arounds: Either you would try to combine a Text box with a KPI object as two overlapping/transparent objects. Or you would try to mix text together with measure values in a KPI object alone. Both has its limitations, though.

    More about advanced label/text editor (for the KPI approach) here: https://community.targit.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016155677-Advanced-Labels

    BR / Ole

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  • Hi Ole 

    How do i add dynamic content based on a criteria on a user dimension? 

    I have a dashboard, where the user can filter on a user dimension and i want to show the user dimension in the title of my graph. 

    Thanks! 

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  • Hi Peter,

    I am afraid you cannot do that with user dimensions.

    But it might be a worthy candidate for the feature requests list. Please head over here if you want as a new feature request. https://community.targit.com/hc/en-us/community/topics/7278561562141-Feature-requests-Ideas 

    BR / Ole

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  • Hi,

    Thank you for the good explanations. 

    I want to hear if its possible to do if statements in the "Dynamic Content" option? 

    I want to do a dynamic title depending on the selected dimensions and if no dimensions are selected I want it to write something like "Select item to continue"

    Looking forward for your reply :)

    /Haron

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  • Hi Haron,

    The functionality you are looking for is covered by 'Required criteria'.

    Please see this article: https://community.targit.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017145098-Required-criteria 

    Being a little creative, you can have one text showing when no dimension member is selected (= the text from the Required criteria setting), and another text showing when one or more dimension members are selected.

    The latter part is the creative part: You will need to use a data object, e.g., a Bar Chart. The data is not important because you are going to hide everything by hiding axis lines and axis labels (see this article: https://community.targit.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017045158-Formatting-graphical-objects ).

    Once these things have been hidden, you can insert the desired dynamic text in the chart's title.

    BR / Ole

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  • Hi Ole, 

    Thansk alot for your answer. Looks like this will be a big workaround with alot of "Required Criteria" for each of my "krydstabeller" as I have 3 different dimensions and depending on what the user chooses the text should be different. Currently I have this logic in DAX and I just use this DAX query to give me the "Correct" text/dashboard title depending on the 3 dimensions. I just thought maybe the exact same DAX query with IF statements and switch functions could be translated easily in Targit for the Title of my dashboard. 

    /Haron

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