Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

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Providing Interactivity to Users: Selectors Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide
in one selector affects all its targets, you must define the selectors
in the order of the attributes’ hierarchy. For an example, see
Enabling Grid/Graphs as selectors to control other Grid/Graphs,
page 183.
The following procedure re-creates the example shown above, using
MicroStrategy Tutorial data.
To allow a selector to be automatically updated when no data exists
Create the dataset report
1 Create a report with Call Center and Region on the rows, and the Revenue
metric on the columns.
2 Save the report, naming it Call Center Revenue by Region.
Create the dashboard
3 Create a new dashboard, selecting Call Center Revenue by Region as
the dataset. The new dashboard opens in the Document Editor in Design
View.
4 Insert a panel stack. For directions, see To insert a panel stack, page 70.
5 Drag the Call Center Revenue by Region dataset from the Datasets
pane onto the panel.
Create the Call Center selector
6 From the Insert menu, point to Selector, then choose the Button Bar
selector style. When you move the cursor to the Layout area, the pointer
becomes crosshairs.
7 Click to the left of the Grid/Graph in the panel. Click and drag to size the
selector, using the dashboard samples in Determining how the target of
a selector displays when no data exists, page 149 as a guide.
8 Right-click the selector and choose Properties. The Properties dialog box
opens.
9 Click the Selector tab.
10 Specify Select attribute element as the Action type.
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