Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

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Providing Interactivity to Users: Selectors Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide
maintained. To target another selector, automatic target maintenance
must be disabled. Alternatively, you can keep automatic target
maintenance if you can place the target selector on a panel in the same
document section as the source selector; the source selector will
automatically target that panel stack. For more information on
automatically maintaining targets, including how to enable and
disable it, see Automatically maintaining targets for selectors,
page 134.
To Create a New Selector... Do This...
With a panel stack as the
target.
With a Grid/Graph as the
target and metrics as the
source.
With a Grid/Graph as the
target and elements as the
source.
Right-click the panel stack and select Insert Panel Stack Selector.
Note that you cannot use check boxes with a panel stack, since check
boxes allow multiple selections and multiple panels cannot be displayed
simultaneously.
• In Desktop, insert a selector. Change the action type of the selector
to metrics, as described below this table. If targets are not
automatically maintained, specify the Grid/Graph to use as the target.
• In Web, right-click the word Metrics on the Grid/Graph and select
Create Selector Control.
• In Desktop, insert a selector. Specify the attribute, custom group, or
consolidation to use as the source, as described below this table. If
targets are not automatically maintained, specify the Grid/Graph to
use as the target.
• In Web, right-click the attribute, custom group, or consolidation on the
Grid/Graph and select Create Selector Control.
That filters a metric’s values. Insert a selector. Change the action type of the selector to metric
condition, as described below this table. Select whether to display the
selector as a slider or a qualification which the user completes to filter
the metric's values. Specify the metric to use as the source. Select
whether to filter the metric’s values, rank, or percent rank. If targets are
not automatically maintained, specify the Grid/Graph to use as the
target. For descriptions of these options, see Creating selectors that
filter metric values, page 123.
With an attribute as the
source.
Right-click the attribute in the Datasets pane and select Create
Selector.
If targets are not automatically maintained, the new selector does not
have a target. Therefore, you must specify the Grid/Graph or panel
stack to use as the target, as described below this table.
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