Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

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Providing Interactivity to Users: Selectors Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide
• A specific target is sliced or filtered by a selector, allowing you to filter one
target and slice another using the same selector. See To apply selections
as a filters or slices for a specific target, page 131.
• Selectors in the entire dashboard slice or filter the data. This
document-level setting is used to define the behavior of new selector
targets, except when the target being added is already the target of
another selector that uses the same source. In that case, the target uses
the behavior defined in the other selector. For instructions, see To apply
selections as filters or slices (document-level), page 131.
For example, at the document level, selectors are defined as filters.
Selector1 targets Grid/Graph1 as a filter, using Region as the source.
Selector2 targets Grid/Graph2 as a slice, using the same attribute,
Region, as the source.
The dashboard also contains a third Grid/Graph, which is not the
target of any selectors.
Open Selector1 and add Grid/Graph2 as a target. It is automatically
defined as a slice, because Grid/Graph2 is already the target of Selector2
(a slicing selector), and both selectors use the same attribute, Region.
Add Grid/Graph3 as a target to Selector1. It is automatically defined as a
filter, because Grid/Graph3 is not already the target of another selector.
To apply selections as filters or slices for a specific selector
1 Open the dashboard in Design View in the Document Editor.
2 Right-click the selector to update, and select Properties. The Properties
dialog box opens.
3 Click the Selector tab.
4 To define how the selector is applied to all targets, do one of the
following:
• To apply the selections as a filter, select the Apply selections as a
filter check box.
130 Applying selections as filters or slices © 2012 MicroStrategy, Inc.