Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

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Providing Interactivity to Users: Selectors Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide
4 Do one of the following:
• To apply the selections as a filter, select the Apply selections as a
filter for all new targets check box.
• To apply the selections as a slice, clear the Apply selections as a
filter for all new targets check box.
5 Click OK to return to the dashboard.
Determining whether the selector includes or
excludes data: selection type
You can specify whether an element selector or a metric condition slider
selector includes or excludes the selected data, by defining the Selection Type
option. (An element selector displays different elements of attributes,
custom groups, or consolidations; a metric condition slider displays a slider
to filter metric values or rank.)
For example, a dashboard contains an element selector that displays regions
and targets a Grid/Graph. A user can select regions and by default they are
displayed rather than hidden in the Grid/Graph, as shown below.
Change the selection type to exclude items, and update the text displayed in
the title bar to reflect that change. When the dashboard is executed again,
and the user selects Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, all regions except
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