use dashboard date filter for an embedded report

[arusoft]

I have a dashboard that has date filter. I have embedded a report to this dashboard.

Here is how my report part of dashboard looks like

<panel>
<table>
<title>My Test Report</title>
<search ref="my_test_report"></search>
</table>
</panel>

So how can I use the dashboard date filter with this embedded report too.

[ITWhisperer]

You could set up a base search in your dashboard which retrieves the (last set of) results from the report, then base your panel search on this search to apply the date filter.

[arusoft]

So won't that force me to retrieve all the data (All time) in report before hand? Or is this how reports are supposed to work with dashboard?

[ITWhisperer · Accepted solution]

This is how reports work with dashboards. Essentially, the dashboard is loading a set of results from the (last execution of the) report, which it can then do further operations on, such as filtering by time.