How can I make the View header change when I drill down through Groups?

[Brian_Morgan]

I have a Deck View called “Automobiles” with three groups called “Class”, “Make”, and “Model”. I also have a Details View.

When I drill down, the View header continues to say “Automobiles” at each level until finally “Details”. I’d like for it to change to something like “Automobiles” → “Passenger” → “Chevrolet” → “Camaro”.

The problem is that by the time I get to “Details”, I forget where I came from as I back-out.

Any suggestions?

Thank you,
Brian

[Marc_Dillon · Accepted solution]

Brian_Morgan:

How can I make the View header change when I drill down through Groups?

You can’t. There is no way for an expression to read or keep track of which grouping you’ve drilled down into. Here is a semi-related feature request:

In a Table View, setting a 'Group by' column removes column from the "grid". Explicity setting it in... Feature Requests

[image] As seen in the screenshot, I’ve set the [text] column as the ‘Group by’ column. Default behavior in this case is that this column does not get displayed in the table grid, but instead shows as a header for a set of rows. My request is that under the above circumstance, if you also explicitly add that column into the ‘Column order’ section, then the column should again, and redundantly, appear in the table grid.

What you can do, instead of drill-down group-bys, is to create your own custom navigation menu, where each click into a group is actually transferring the user to a different view. Of course you’ll have to create a new Slice and View for each individual grouping, so it is not very scalable.

[Brian_Morgan]

Wow! Thanks for the harsh news, Marc From my perspective as a developer, I would think that this should be a dozen lines of code to add this option. I’ll wait on feedback from my testers. Hopefully they won’t see it like I do.