Add and edit controls

This page explains how to add and work with interactive report controls. To learn more about how controls work, see About controls.

Add a control to the report

  1. Edit your report.
  2. In the toolbar, select Control icon. Add a control.
  3. Select the control type, and then position it on your chart.
  4. On the right, configure the chart with the settings in the Properties panel.
    1. To filter the report by selected dimension values, use a dimension for the Control field.
    2. To set the value of a parameter, use that parameter as the Control field.
    3. To change the appearance of the data control, use the options in the Style tab of the properties panel.

Change the control type

You can switch an existing control on the report from one type to another:

  1. Edit your report.
  2. Select the control.
  3. In the Properties panel, open the control drawer .
  4. Select the new control type.

You may need to edit the control's settings to use the new type.

Make a control appear on every page

You can make a control appear in the same location on every page of your report. Filters or parameters set on one page will carry over to all the pages in the report.

  1. Edit your report.
  2. Select the control.
  3. Select the Arrange > Make Report-level menu.

Apply a control to a specific component

To limit a control to a subset of the components on the page, group the components with the control.