Dashboard drill-down behavior

Hi,
I have a bar graph chart on the dashboard, and I'd like to drill down the chart normally. However, when I reach the lowest level, I want to be able to click on any bar in the chart, and then it'll take me to another pre-built Answer request (or another dashboard) filtered by the values passed over from the bar that I clicked on (i.e. a particular product ID).
Is that possible? If so, how would I go about doing it?
Thanks.

Unfortunately, this is a request that comes up all too often and it's not one that's easily fixed.
The only real option is to create a navigate function on the bars, navigating to the "next level" of the hierarchy, creating a new report for each level. Effectively faking the hierarchy functionality of OBI. It creates many more reports than should be necessary, but gives you a lot more flexibility to add additional functionality to specific levels of reports.

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Check in the RPD in the BMM in the dimension wheater all levels have a key that is set to use for drill down. It seems that only Org_Level_8 (the last level, detail) has key - use for drill down checked. This allow columns on the level to be displayed when driiling from up level to the current one. So maybe this is a reason that you get only Org_Level_8 data when driiling from any level from the case statement.
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