This recipe will show how a pop-up screen can be created within a dashboard. Such a pop-up screen can, for example, be used to provide additional information related to the content of the dashboard. In this recipe, the pop-up screen can be activated and deactivated by clicking on buttons.
No specific preparation is needed for this recipe. You can use any dashboard you already created or just start with an empty one. In this example, we will use the dashboard from the previous recipe.
Close
. We will use this button to close the pop-up screen:1
in cell E1 and value 0
in cell E2:Info
. This button will be used to activate the pop-up screen.1
in the Key field:In this recipe, we combined the Push Button functionality with Dynamic Visibility. The three grouped components are only visible when the Dynamic Visibility status is 1 (spreadsheet cell E3). When clicking on the Info push button, the value 1 is put into spreadsheet cell E3, following which the grouped components appear. After clicking on the Close push button, the value 0 is put into this cell and the grouped components disappear as the status cell does not match value 1 anymore.
After clicking on the Info push button, the pop-up screen appears. Now this button does not have any useful functionality. Nothing happens if you click it as the pop-up screen is already active. To make this button disappear, you can easily use the Dynamic Visibility functionality you already set up by following these steps: