Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide Providing Interactivity to Users: Selectors 4
the user types text, matches are displayed for the user to choose from.
This is particularly convenient if the element list is long.
You
can determine whether the search is performed on the
server or the client. To fetch elements directly from the data
warehouse or Intelligent Cube as the user performs the search,
select the Search on server check box in the Layout options
on the Properties and Formatting dialog box.
Slider (most effective selector for browsing data in a graph; also
available for metric condition selectors)
Place the graph slider under or above the graph it will control, then
specify the graph as the target of the slider selector. Next, specify one
of the attributes or metrics in the graph as the selector's source. This
allows an analyst to drag the slider to view different sets of data in a
graph and to adjust the size of the slider to view different ranges of
values in the graph.
• Flash Style is how the selector is displayed in Flash Mode in
MicroStrategy Web if it is an interactive Flash-only selector. The options
are listed below:
Automatic: The default, which uses the DHTML Style (described
above) for Flash Mode.
Fish Eye Selector: An interactive style of selector that is displayed
only in Flash Mode. It magnifies an item when a user hovers the
cursor over it. This style of selector is useful because it allows a user to
choose from a large list of elements without having to see all of the
elements displayed at one time. Any item that a user hovers over or
selects remains magnified, while the remaining items are minimized
and hidden from view.
Since a Fish Eye Selector is displayed only in Flash Mode, determine
how the selector is displayed in non-Flash modes by specifying a
DHTML Style (described above).
For more information about creating this type of selector, and an
example, see Creating a Fish Eye Selector, page 214.
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