Populating dashboard filters using drill functionality...is it possible?

I am pretty sure that I already know the answer to my question and even a possible work around, but I figure that I would ask the experts on the forums just in case.
We have a requirement to allow users to drill into specific fields, such a organization hierarchy, time, etc. All of the hierarchies are present at the top of the report as dashboard prompts. There are multiple tabs of reports, and being such, the users would like to be able to drill down on a report and have the item that they drilled on populate the dashboard prompts at the time. This would allow them to drill down in a report and then click on another tab on the dashboard, bringing their drill with them.
I have a feeling the answer to this is to use navigation and pass the values, but they really don't want to go that route as the sheer number of navigates that would have to be built makes for a messy report.
Does anyone know how to do this, or as an alternative, can you create a drop down list of navigates?
Thanks!
Michael

You could always do it but would need to put a fix limit on the number of menu items.
For example you could create a set of menu items at design time with the visible property set to False.
While reading the database, you then set them to True while setting the label to whatever you require.
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