Help Toggle on a QuickSight Dashboard

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Hello!

We are interested in building out a help toggle on one of our QuickSight 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 QuickSight console? Or is this dependent on an embedded dashboard?

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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?

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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!!