Breadcrumb Trails - Drill Down Levels

Drill Down levels are really useful in providing a way for users to see additional content without having to have all the charts displayed in the Dashboard. If you also add a breadcrumb trail to the drill level, it will help users remember what they clicked on in a previous level.

Breadcrumb trails use ‘Object Replacement’ to replace the name of the object with the value that a user clicked on.

In the following example, we’ve created a chart that contains a number of drill levels. At the moment though these levels do not have a breadcrumb trail created, so when a user clicks on a ‘Campaign’ in the first chart

the second and subsequent levels do not confirm which campaign they selected

If we added a breadcrumb trail to the second level, by using Object Replacement in the chart title, users would be able to see what ‘Campaign’ they selected in the main chart.

We can do this by adding a title on the Attributes screen, in Chart Editor that refers to the ‘Campaign Name’ object. If we added something like this

the {{Campaign Name}} would be replaced by the name of the ‘Campaign’ that the user clicked on in the main chart

When using Object Replacement, you must ensure that the spelling and case of the object you want to refer to is exactly the same as it appears in your Data Source. For example, if your object name is ‘Campaign Name’ ensure you use a capital C and capital N. The Dashboard uses this information to match to an object in the Data Source and if the spelling or case differs in any way it won’t be able to match it and therefore do the replacement.