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Highlight with parameter actions

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Highlight with parameter actions

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- One way to utilize parameter actions is what we call dynamic highlighting. Now this is going to use a parameter action. Now, a parameter action works in a very similar way to a standard parameter in that a parameter takes a value from a user input and then allows you to make a change to a view. In this case, we're going to use the selected value in a calculation, and then the value of that calculation is going to be used to change the look and feel of two sheets within our view. Our starting dashboard is this one here, where we have our map, our scatterplot showing our customers, and we have a timeline. And what I want to happen in this example is that when I select one of the points on my timeline, I want to highlight any other weeks where the sale was higher than the one we've selected, and at the same time highlight customers who had a higher profit than that same selected value. So to do that, I need to first create a parameter to take the input for my action. So we go to our…

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