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Solution: Dashboard actions

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Solution: Dashboard actions

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(upbeat music) - [Instructor] Here's my solution to the dashboard actions. So the first thing we are asked to do is to create a highlight action for the hotel name that will highlight the hotel name across all the appropriate sheets. So unlike filters, highlighting only works if you actually have the same field available across different charts from different sheets. Now in my case, we're looking at the hotel name. So I can see that the hotel name is visible in the occupancy date and also in the product category and in the scatterplot as well. So I can create the action to highlight those because it makes sense, 'cause I'm already looking at the hotel name in there. For the product orders and the timeline, the hotel name isn't actually visible, so there's nothing to highlight in those particular visualizations, the reason why I wanted to filter it, but that's not what we've been asked to do. We're looking to highlight the hotels amongst our dashboard. So let's go up to the Dashboard…

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