Help Toggle on a Quick Sight Dashboard

Hello!

We are interested in building out a help toggle on one of our Quick Sight dashboards similar to the example at this link: AWS QuickSight Solutions Gallery

Is it possible to add these transparent boxes with the help toggle button within the Quick Sight console? Or is this dependent on an embedded dashboard?

Hi @malloryscott
these are “normal” visuals/textboxes. So yes you can.
Just use a 50% background or something like that on the visual. A visual with select action and a parameter to hide/show the help boxes.
BR

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Thank you @ErikG ! Can you provide more detail on adding the parameter to hide/show help boxes so that it replicates the help icon on this example Woodmark dashboard? Is there documentation that explains how to set this up?

Hi @malloryscott

This ones a fun one.

Example in Arena
Sample helpers

Quick steps below:

  1. Create Parameter to Show/Hide Helper widgets.
  2. Create the buttons to enable/disable the helper widgets. Use Custom visual content pointing to a URL. For each button you will create a custom navigation action updating parameter. I chose to use SHOW and HIDE as the text to update and in the next step evaluate to show/hide.
    3- In the buttons, set rule to show/hide based on parameter. I chose to hide by default and the show if param = SHOW
    4- create helper widgets for each widget with rule to hide by default and show if param = SHOW. sets translucency to 50%
    5- arrange all helper buttons over charts.

Hope this helps!

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Thank you @Ramon_Lopez , this was very helpful!!