Hack around removing Highlight on Select

This hack is a method you can use to change how the charts are displayed when someone clicks on them. (This walkthrough uses data from Sample Superstore)

When you build a chart like below (Sales by Category), the user can click on a bar and get a highlight.

This simultaneously grays out the other bars, which sometimes you don't want to happen. This tutorial is a way to make sure that they are not grayed out.

All you need for this is to:

Step 1. make a calculated field of an empty string:

Step 2. Drag that onto details:

Step 3. Set up a highlight action

And that's it!

Try clicking on the bar now and you will notice that the other bars are not grayed out!

Above, Furniture is selected (see the black border) but the other categories are not grayed out.
Author:
Tomo Mensendiek
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