Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide Layering Data: Panels and Panel Stacks 3
In MicroStrategy Web, the current panel is displayed when a user first opens
the dashboard, although he can use a selector to change to a different panel.
If DHTML is enabled and panels are defined to load on demand, only the
current panel is downloaded when the dashboard is executed in
MicroStrategy Web; other panels are loaded when the user requests them. If
the panel stack is defined to pre-load all the panels, all the panels are
downloaded when the dashboard is executed. For more information about
loading panels, including instructions, see Loading panels on demand in
MicroStrategy Web, page 79.
To choose the panel to display initially
This procedure continues where the previous procedure, To change the
display order of panels, page 78, finished.
1 Right-click the panel stack, point to Panels, and then select Manage. The
Panels tab of the Properties dialog box opens.
2 Select the panel from the list of panels.
3 Click Set as Current to choose the selected panel to display initially.
4 Click OK to return to the dashboard.
The selected panel is displayed in the panel stack. Next, you can format
the panel stack, individual panels, and (if displayed) the title bar.
Loading panels on demand in MicroStrategy
Web
In MicroStrategy Web, all the panels of a panel stack can load when the
dashboard is executed, even though only one panel is displayed to the user.
This ensures that these pre-loaded panels display immediately when the user
selects a different panel. However, if the user is unlikely to access all the
panels in a panel stack, or if you want to optimize the initial load time of the
dashboard, you can specify that the panels load on demand.
When panels are loaded on demand, only one panel is loaded when the
dashboard is executed in MicroStrategy Web. Other panels are loaded only
when the user selects them. The dashboard therefore opens faster, although
panels loaded on demand will take some time to load when they are selected.
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