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# useDashboardEventDispatch()

- Package: [@gooddata/sdk-ui-dashboard](https://www.gooddata.ai/docs/gooddata-ui/latest/api-reference/sdk-ui-dashboard/index.md)
- Kind: function
- Stability: alpha
- Source: https://github.com/gooddata/gooddata-ui-sdk/blob/rel/11.64/libs/sdk-ui-dashboard/src/model/react/useDashboardEventDispatch.ts
- Guides: [useDashboardEventDispatch](https://www.gooddata.ai/docs/gooddata-ui/latest/dashboard-plugins/use-dashboard-event-dispatch/index.md)

> **Alpha API.** Initial API, highly likely to change outside SemVer. Don't build on it in production. See [API maturity](https://www.gooddata.ai/docs/gooddata-ui/latest/integrations/platform/api-maturity/index.md).
> 

Convenience hook for dispatching Dashboard events.

**Signature:**

```typescript
useDashboardEventDispatch: () => ((eventBody: DashboardEventBody<DashboardEvents | ICustomDashboardEvent>) => void)
```
**Returns:**

((eventBody: [DashboardEventBody](https://www.gooddata.ai/docs/gooddata-ui/latest/api-reference/sdk-ui-dashboard/sdk-ui-dashboard.dashboardeventbody/index.md)&lt;[DashboardEvents](https://www.gooddata.ai/docs/gooddata-ui/latest/api-reference/sdk-ui-dashboard/sdk-ui-dashboard.dashboardevents/index.md) &#124; [ICustomDashboardEvent](https://www.gooddata.ai/docs/gooddata-ui/latest/api-reference/sdk-ui-dashboard/sdk-ui-dashboard.icustomdashboardevent/index.md)&gt;) =&gt; void)

function that you can use to dispatch Dashboard events