Creating a Filter Box

this is the ninth step of creating your own report with the reporting module in this section, you will learn how to add a filter to your dashboard specifically, we will create a filter that allows us to look at those flights that depart from a particular country create a filter box visualization as any other visualization select new > chart and then tutorial flights as the datasource and filter box as the visualization type set the time filters first of all, in the time section, remove the filter from the time range selection by selecting no filter define the filters configurations first, filters configurations section, add a new filter by selecting the plus sign and then edit the newly created filter by selecting the pencil icon for our use case, it makes most sense to present a list of countries in alphabetical order first, enter the column as origin country and keep all other options the same and then select run query this gives us a preview of our filter next, remove the date filter by unchecking the date filter checkbox finally, select save , name the chart as tutorial filter , add the chart to our existing tutorial dashboard and then save & go to dashboard once on the dashboard, try using the filter to show only those flights that departed from the united kingdom – you will see the filter is applied to all of the other visualizations on the dashboard