Dashboard Time/Duration Modification Workflow

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I have a dashboard with a primary focus of a time series chart. There are peripheral blocks that I’d like to follow any ‘zoom’ on the primary time series chart. Meaning I’d like the time series chart timing to modify the dasboard time/duration. I believe that this should be possible if I can capture the time/duration of the primary time series chart, push that into a workflow that updates the dashboard time/duration. My current workflow is able to modify the dashboard time/duration statically, but I can’t find how to retrieve the time series time/duration and into the workflow. Is that possible?

Thanks,
Jason

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Are you able to flip the direction? Instead of the time-series block modifying the dashboard configuration, can you change the time-series block to use the dashboard configuration.

Details:
https://docs.losant.com/dashboards/overview/#global-duration-and-resolution

You can then configure all blocks to use those global settings and they’ll all change at the same time.

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Using the Dashboard configuration certainly works to trickle down the time/duration to all of the blocks on the dashboard and is functional. But I’d like for the zooming feature to propagate across the dashboard. For instance, if I start my dashboard up looking over 24 hours, and see a point of interest in the time series chart, I click and drag to select the data of interest. Lets say I click and drag from 0813 to 0843. There is correlating location data between 0813 to 0843 that applies to the new Time Series view. I could modify the dashboard time and duration using the dropdown to achieve the effect I’m looking for, but would be more streamlined if it went the other way around, letting the time/duration of the time series drive the entire dashboard.
I felt like I almost had it using a dashboard button that kicked off a workflow that would modify the dashboard time/duration, but failed because I didn’t have a way to retrieve the object id for the time series block.

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Ok, makes sense now. Getting those values out of the block is not directly supported. The values are technically in the DOM, and you could find them using JavaScript, but that would be quite difficult to do and could not be done without an Experience.

This is a good feature request though - adding the ability to automatically zoom other time-series block to the same window of time.

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Thanks for the validation, Brandon. If it becomes a required feature, we’ll work it into an experience. Appreciate the quick responses.