Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide Providing Interactivity to Users: Selectors 4
For example, the dataset report of a dashboard contains Region, Year, and
the Revenue metric. A Grid/Graph displays Year and Revenue only, and is
targeted by a selector with Region as its source. The selector is defined to
slice the data. When Central is selected, three rows, one for each year, are
displayed, as shown below:
If you select Mid-Atlantic as well as Central, six rows are displayed, two for
each year, as shown below:
This occurs because the selector slices the data by region before the user
selections are made, and cannot aggregate the slices for multiple regions.
If you change the selector to filter rather than slice the data, the yearly
revenue is aggregated across the selected regions. The yearly revenue is
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