Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

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Providing Interactivity to Users: Selectors Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide
To format the background of selected items
This procedure assumes that the dashboard contains a Grid/Graph used as a
selector. For instructions on adding Grid/Graphs, see the Desktop Help. For
instructions to enable the Grid/Graph as a selector, see Enabling Grid/
Graphs as selectors to control other Grid/Graphs, page 183.
1 Open the dashboard to be formatted in the Document Editor in Design
View.
2 Select the Grid/Graph to format.
3 From the Format menu, select Format. The Format Objects dialog box
opens.
4 Select Container in the Format list on the left.
5 Click the Background tab.
6 Define the Selection color, which is the background color for items that
are selected in the Grid/Graph.
• If you want to specify a color, click Selection color, and choose a
color from the color palette.
• If you want the color to be automatically set to contrast with the Grid/
Graph's background, choose Automatic from the Selection color
drop-down list.
The
Selection color is applied in Flash Mode and Express Mode
in MicroStrategy Web.
7 Click OK to return to the dashboard.
188 Enabling Grid/Graphs as selectors to control other Grid/Graphs © 2012 MicroStrategy, Inc.