Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

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Providing Interactivity to Users: Selectors Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide
The All option does not have to be selected for the total to be displayed. For
example, only Central, Mid-Atlantic, and Total are selected in the following
sample:
Notice that the values in the Total line remain the same as in the previous
sample—the total is always calculated using all the selector items (in this
instance, all the regions).
The following example shows a drop-down selector that targets an attribute
on a panel stack. When Total is chosen in the selector, the total revenue of all
the regions is displayed.
Conditional formatting on selector totals
Conditional formatting allows you to format specified data in your
dashboard depending on predefined criteria. In Desktop and in
MicroStrategy Web, if the selector’s target is a Grid/Graph, you can choose
whether to apply conditional formatting to metrics only, to metrics and their
corresponding selector totals, or to the subtotals only. In MicroStrategy Web,
if the target is a text field, you can select whether to apply conditional
formatting to metrics only, or to metrics and their corresponding selector
totals. (See the MicroStrategy Web Help for instructions.) When you create
a conditional format in Desktop, if the target is a text field, the conditional
format is not applied to the total, but rather to the metric values only.
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