I assume this is a no… but is there some way to add a visual that’s basically a text box, but that can display field data?
I’m basically trying to make a site detail page, but I’d like to show the name, address, etc… a bunch of fields. They really belong in a text box - I’d like to format them lay them out a bit.
It doesn’t look like the current text box can reference anything but parameters. Is there some way I could set a bunch of parameters when somebody navigates to a page or something? It would be pretty impractical to set them all from all the places that might link to that page.
Hi,
As Max noted above, Insights can be used to show text and reference field data. You can start with a new insight, or modify a suggested insight.
I’ll mark his post as a solution. Please let us know if you have any additonal questions.
Say I just want to make navigate action where I set a parameter for a store id and then on that page - a detail page - I want to show the store’s address, or the name of its manager. I’m not seeing how to actually do that, even in an Insight. Is there something I’m missing? It seems like insights want to show me calculations about fields. How would I get a single text value in one?
When you create an insight, you don’t have to use a computation. Just click on the x on the top right of the computation screen and then customize insight. Here you can type in text as well as include parameters.
The OP was asking about using fields in text boxes, not parameters. Insights don’t support using fields either, so I don’t know why this was marked as answered. It is already possible to use a parameter in a text box, so there is really no reason to use an Insight instead.
I’m trying to do something similar here with a somewhat complex set of database queries. The landing page is pulling data from one table, which includes client names, but not more detailed information about those clients. When a user clicks on the client name, I want a text visual to appear below that is only relevant to that one client. Inside that text visual I want to display a couple of fields with unique, singular values that only apply to the currently selected client. The only way to do this right now is to set variables when the user clicks on the first visual, which is a hassle because I have to go back and update all my queries so they have data that’s completely irrelevant to that particular visual.