Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

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Providing Interactivity to Users: Selectors Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide
default, the selector's current state is defined to display the first selector
item.
When the dashboard is executed in MicroStrategy Web, the check box for the
first region, Central, is selected in the selector, so the target Grid/Graph
displays data only for the Central region, as shown below:
In the selector, a user selects the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast check boxes,
and clears the Central check box. Now only Mid-Atlantic and Northeast are
displayed in the Grid/Graph. The user closes the dashboard without saving
it, then re-executes the dashboard. As defined by the selector's Current State
setting, Central is once again selected in the selector and displayed in the
target.
As before, the user selects the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast check boxes, and
clears the Central check box in the selector. Mid-Atlantic and Northeast are
displayed in the Grid/Graph. This time, the user saves the dashboard before
closing it, then re-executes it. The Grid/Graph displays the Mid-Atlantic and
Northeast data, with Mid-Atlantic and Northeast checked in the selector, as
shown below:
When the user saved the dashboard, the selector's state was saved and
therefore it automatically changed the Current State setting to Set to
156 Determining how the target of a selector displays (current state) © 2012 MicroStrategy, Inc.