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Widget Interactions & Data Export

Written by Ekaterina Kosenko

Updated on Sep 28, 2026

Widget Interactions

Widgets can interact with each other — clicking an element in one widget filters data in other widgets on the same dashboard. This enables drill-down analysis without manually setting filters.

Supported Interactions

  • Heatmap — Click a cell to filter by X and Y dimension values
  • Chart — Click a bar or data point to filter by dimension value (with drill-down on, use Cmd/Ctrl + click)
  • Sankey — Cmd/Ctrl + click a node to filter by its full path
  • Pie Chart — Click a segment to filter by dimension value
  • Table — Click a row to filter by dimension values
  • Creatives Gallery — Click a card to open detail panel and optionally filter other widgets

How It Works

  1. Click an element in a source widget (e.g., a cell in a heatmap)
  2. A filter chip appears in the Active Interaction Bar at the top of the dashboard
  3. All other widgets automatically filter to show only matching data
  4. Click the X on the filter chip to clear the interaction
  5. Click "Clear all" to remove all active interactions

Configuration

Each widget has an acceptsCrossFilters setting (enabled by default):

  • On — The widget reacts to interactions from other widgets
  • Off — The widget ignores cross-widget interactions

Source widgets always emit interactions regardless of this setting. The setting only controls whether a widget receives interaction filters.

Drill-Down in Charts and Sankey

Bar charts and Sankey widgets can expand a bar or node into its next level right in place — for example Campaign → Ad group → Ad. The parent and its siblings stay visible, so you can compare a branch with the rest.

Set up drill-down

Open the widget's properties panel and go to the Data section.

Turn on Drill-Down Mode.

Add the dimensions for each level and drag them into order — the top one is shown first.

Save the dashboard.

Bar charts
  • Click a bar to expand it into grouped child bars; click the group name again to collapse it.
  • Open several branches at once; Collapse all appears while any branch is open.
  • Child bars keep the chart's colors, number formats, orientation, stacking and value labels. Each level is sorted by the metric, largest first, unless the widget has its own sort order.
  • Available for bar charts with a category on the axis (not a date axis).
Sankey
  • The first stages of the flow are always visible. Click a node at the edge of the flow to reveal its next level; click it again to hide it.
  • Nodes with the same name under different parents stay separate.
  • Available for Sankey widgets with one metric and at least two dimensions, up to four levels in total.

Drill and filter

A plain click drills down. Cmd + click (Mac) or Ctrl + click (Windows) filters the other widgets on the dashboard by the full path of the clicked bar or node — for example Campaign A → Prospecting. The filter chip appears in the interaction bar and is cleared the same way as any other interaction.

Note
Tables support the same Drill-Down Mode: turn it on in the Data section to expand rows level by level.

Data Export

Export data from Table widgets for use in other tools. Hover over the table and click the ⋮ icon in its header.

CSV and Excel Download

Export as CSV and Export as Excel (.xlsx) download the table’s data with the dashboard’s current filters applied — every row the table loaded, not only the page you see, with the totals row at the bottom. Drill-down tables are expanded to their lowest level, with a column for each level. The file is named after the widget.

Copy to Clipboard

Copy the same data to your clipboard as CSV text, for pasting into spreadsheets or documents.

Note
To export every widget on the dashboard at once, use Export in the dashboard header and choose CSV or Excel. See Export data to CSV or Excel.

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