Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide Providing Interactivity to Users: Selectors 4
• If Apply selections as a filter is selected:
To display data for all items in the selector, select Unset (no
filter).
When a user has chosen items in the selector, Set to specific
elements is selected automatically. The target displays the items
that the user chose in the selector. This option is shown only when
a user has chosen selector items, and is available for both filtering
and slicing selectors.
5 If Current state is set to either Use first or Use last, type the number of
elements to display in the Number of elements field. For example, if the
selector source is Region, Use last is selected, and Number of elements
is defined as one, the last region (Web) is displayed.
6 Click OK to return to the dashboard.
Showing totals for selectors
Selectors that contain attribute, custom group, or consolidation elements as
selector items can also include an option to display totals. The total is
calculated for all the selector items. A user can choose whether to display
specific elements, all of the elements at the same time, or the totals.
For example, a dashboard contains a Grid/Graph with Region and several
metrics. A selector (the check boxes on the left) targets the Grid/Graph and
displays all the regions, as well as the Total option, as selector items. In the
following sample, all the regions are selected, and the total is displayed:
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