The differences between the two "links" field in two "chartSeries"?

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hi all, Can someone help to review my code below and tell me the differences between the two "links" field in two "chartSeries"? one is hard-coded and one is generated by "apply". i wonder why they are different. you can directly copy the code and run in interface. as you can see the attached screenshot, what i try to do is : clicking the colored box will show the department which is clicked =load( local!departments: {"HR", "Marketing", "Sales", "IT"}, local!test , with( a!dashboardLayout( firstColumnContents: { a!barChartField( label: "Spending by Category", labelPosition: "ABOVE", categories: local!departments, series: { a!chartSeries(label: "Hardware", data: {1000, 2000, 2000, 6000} ,links: {a!dynamicLink( value:"HR", saveInto: { local!test } ),a!dynamicLink( value: "Ma... 
 
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eaglez · Accepted Answer

the difference is : for the hard-coded part, when i click the the first column colored box, it will be changed correspondingly, I mean, one department for one colored box. however, for the "apply" part, it shows always "HR"

eaglez · Answer

thank you very much, philb. i was on Appian7.9. the code is not working on 7.9 i made a test on Appian7.9. it is working.

janakik · Answer

Hey Eaglez, we had a similar approach. The saveInto is not working as expected when dynamic link is used directly inside apply. So we have wrapped up the dynamicLink into a rule and using the rule inside apply. That worked!

eaglez · Answer

hi janakik and nageswararaoa, thank you very much. really incrediable, just change the parameter type(dynamical link rule) to any type and it works...