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# Make a data visualization act as a filter

# Make a data visualization act as a filter {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Xanadu
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* Updated March 20, 2025
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* ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 1 minute to read

You can set a data visualization to act as a filter on a dashboard that contains it. Only table or indicator data can be so filtered.

## Before you begin

To use a data visualization as a filter, you have to meet these requirements:

* The visualization can only be of pie/donut or horizontal/vertical bar type.
* The visualization can show only table or indicator data.
* The visualization must be on a dashboard that was created in the inline editor. You cannot use a visualization as a filter on a technical dashboard or other UI Builder page.
* The visualization cannot have a group by value based on a time duration.
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Role required: Any internal role and the right to edit the dashboard with the visualization

## Procedure

1. Navigate to AllPlatform AnalyticsLibraryDashboards.
2. Find and open the dashboard that contains the data visualization.
3. Select Edit to put the dashboard in edit mode.  
   If you do not see an Edit button
4. Find the pie/donut or bar visualization that you want to use as a filter on the dashboard.
5. Open the visualization's configuration panel.
6. Locate the Chart Interactions section.
7. Select Apply as filter.
8. Save and exit editing mode.
**Related concepts**   

* [Chart interactions in a data visualization](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/yGWWEWTqYeAHuGDmdBgpgw "You can set what occurs when a user interacts with a chart, such as by selecting a bar column. Possibilities include navigating to a URL, opening another data visualization, and filtering all visualizations on the dashboard by the selected value.")  
**Related tasks**   

* [Create or add a filter on an inline dashboard](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/0thTiNrf5lrX6UD~pTwNtA "Create a filter or select one from the filter library. When creating a filter, name it, and choose whether to create a single select, multiple select, date, or true/false filter.")
* [Create a filter in the Filter Designer](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/~VGMFTb4LlClO4M0Sxyw5g "Create a Platform Analytics filter in the Filter Designer and add it to the library for reuse.")
* [Create a filter on a technical dashboard in UI Builder](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/JyUuRAjLX8MzauPuYcS93g "To filter data visualizations and simple lists in a technical dashboard, add a filter component in UI Builder and configure event handlers.")
* [Configure a Single/Multiple select or cascading filter](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/yVymizSPEvjsu60p3X9Lhg "Let users filter a dashboard tab on one or more values from a set of choices, such as incident priority. You can have a single or multiple select filter follow another filter in a cascade.")
* [Configure a True/False filter](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/QrpfPzieuXH3HeEaQ5E5fQ "Let users filter on true/false fields and breakdown elements. For example, you can enable users to choose only the incidents where the Active field is set to true.")
* [Configure a Date filter in the inline editor](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/2LL5tp7D6qb7gTt_AcHjBA "Let users select predefined periods or specify custom start and end dates for the data on a dashboard tab.")
* [Create a domain filter](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/oU5whQkvpXtgiLIkPH~kRw#create-domain-filter "Create a domain filter so that you can filter data visualizations on domains in a domain-separated instance. Domain filters enable the user to see data associated with one or more domains.")
* [Edit a Platform Analytics filter on a dashboard](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/94dN5ZOMisADiVnJdOfImw "When you highlight a filter on a dashboard that you have put into edit mode, you have several editing options depending on whether the filter is local to the dashboard or saved in the library.")
* [Troubleshoot breakdown filters](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/KXd~8V72dkaXPdwUqS~7JQ "In Platform Analytics experience, it's not possible to do extend the functionality of a migrated breakdown filter that doesn't have an associated indicator.")
* [Create a pie or donut visualization in the Visualization Designer](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/LbZ91IlgaziHu3BmDqApeA "Use pie, donut, and semi-donut visualizations to compare the size of parts of a data set to the whole. The segments of these charts should total to 100%.")
* [Create a horizontal or vertical bar data visualization](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/Hpqs8mjOTCuKzS30_cL3gQ "Use bar visualizations to show information in segments that are proportional to the values they represent. Vertical bar and horizontal bar visualizations compare numeric values that represent either nominal or ordinal data.")

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