Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

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Layering Data: Panels and Panel Stacks Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide
After a panel is loaded, it remains cached on the client until the dashboard is
closed.
On-demand panel loading occurs when the dashboard is executed in
MicroStrategy Web with DHTML enabled. In Desktop, only the current
panel is displayed, selectors are not active, and therefore other panels are not
available. On-demand panel loading does not occur in Flash View (Desktop)
or Flash Mode (MicroStrategy Web).
If
your browser supports DHTML, DHTML is enabled in
MicroStrategy Web by default. For more information on DHTML, and
instructions to enable it, see the MicroStrategy Web Help.
You can define how panels are loaded at two levels:
• For all the panel stacks in the document (the document-level setting)
• For each panel stack
This allows you to easily set different panel load settings for different panel
stacks. For example, a dashboard contains multiple panel stacks. You want to
pre-load all the panels of all the panel stacks, except for the panel stack that
contains many panels. At the document level, define the default panel load
setting to pre-load all panels. For the specific panel stack, specify that only
the current panel is pre-loaded. Instructions for both levels follow.
To specify the default panel load setting for all panel stacks in a dashboard
The document-level setting applies to all panel stacks that use the default
panel load setting. You can change the panel load setting for specific panel
stacks as well, as described in To specify how to load panels for a specific
panel stack, page 81.
This
setting applies to all layouts of a multi-layout document. For a
brief description of multi-layout documents, see Multi-layout
documents, page 19; for more details, including examples and
procedures, see the Document Creation Guide.
1 Open the dashboard using the Document Editor in Design View.
2 From the Format menu, select Document Properties. The Document
Properties dialog box opens.
3 Select Advanced.
80 Loading panels on demand in MicroStrategy Web © 2012 MicroStrategy, Inc.