Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

Book Overview and Additional Resources Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide
• Chapter 3, Layering Data: Panels and Panel Stacks describes how you
can create several different views (panels) of data, with each view (panel)
containing a logical grouping of controls that display data that is related
in a meaningful way.
• Chapter 4, Providing Interactivity to Users: Selectors describes how
selectors can allow users to change the data that they are viewing. A
selector can be displayed as a button bar, a drop-down list, radio buttons,
and so on. A selector can change panels or the focus of a Grid/Graph.
• Chapter 5, Providing Flash Analysis and Interactivity: Widgets
describes widgets, which are a key part of dashboards. Widgets are
Flash-based displays of report results, allowing users to visualize data in
different ways than traditional reports displayed as Grid/Graphs do.
You
About this book
can also design and create documents using MicroStrategy Web.
The concepts are the same, but the procedures differ slightly. For
instructions, see the MicroStrategy Web Help.
This book is divided into chapters that begin with a brief overview of the
chapter’s content.
The following sections provide the location of additional examples, list
prerequisites for using this book, and describe the user roles the information
in this book was designed for.
HTML
Documents in the MicroStrategy platform, formerly called
documents, are HTML shells into which you can place MicroStrategy
reports and other graphics, and control the formatting and
appearance with style sheets. In this guide, the term “document”
means a Report Services document.
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