Drilldown

Dashboards allow the viewer to deeply explore the information within an individual chart, grid or gauge through a technique called drilldown.  When a drilldown is available the component will have a small arrow in the top left hand corner as shown.

This component shows us the top 15 applications printed and the cost associated with each.  To execute the drilldown, point your mouse at one of the bars and click once.

Clicking onto the component opens a pop up window called a component drilldown.  In this case showing the cost trend for the application we selected (.doc). To close the drilldown click on the x in the top right hand corner to return to the dashboard.

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