Overview of Interactions

Interactions are used to direct a report viewer’s attention to specific results in a report. The interaction view in the designer interface enables report authors to specify which interactions they would like to add to tables, graphs, and gauges in a report.
There are two types of interactions:
filter
is used to restrict the data that is returned from a query to a data source. Filters are simply a set of rules, or conditions, that you specify to subset the data that is displayed in a table or graph. The goal is to display only the data that you need to see to perform your analysis.
brush
is short for data brushing, which enables you to show the same data selected simultaneously in two or more tables, graphs, or both. The brushed data has the same appearance in each object, which makes the data easily apparent to report viewers.
Typically, graphs are the source of an interaction, with the exception of scatter plots. Tables, graphs, and gauges can be the target for an interaction. However, tables, gauges, and scatter plots cannot be the source of an interaction.