Adding filters to a dashboard

Let's reflect on the Executive Summary dashboard we built in the last section. It provides a great high-level view of our business, showing the up-and-to-the-right growth across all our key metrics that so many organizations covet.

I can imagine this dashboard looking impressive on a large monitor in the office. The dashboard does a good job of telling the story of the business since its inception. What it doesn't do well is tell the story of how the business is doing right now. Nor does it do a good job of telling how segments of this business are doing – for example, the delivery business, or the growth of business in the state of California. These questions are more niche, so they don't all need their own dashboards. At the same time, there are people in our organization that certainly care about them! Just like we were able to apply filters to our individual questions, Metabase also allows global filters at the dashboard level...