Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

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standard selector, such as list box or slider. For a complete list of how Fish
Eye Selectors are displayed in MicroStrategy Web modes and Desktop views,
see Fish Eye Selector: Widget vs. selector, page 218. Also, a Fish Eye
Selector created as a widget cannot switch panels on a panel stack, unlike a
Fish Eye Selector created as a selector.
For example, you can choose to display a Fish Eye Selector as a grid, instead
of a widget. The same dashboard shown above in Flash Mode is shown below
in Interactive Mode. The widget, which is displayed as a Fish Eye Selector in
Flash Mode, is displayed as a grid in Interactive Mode. The grid functions as
a selector, targeting and changing the graph, just as the Fish Eye Selector did
in the previous example.
All the employees are not shown in this sample, because the list is so long.
Notice that the previous selection, Jack Kieferson, is far down the list.
Because the list is so long, names even further down the list may not appear
in the same screen as the graph, which is why the Fish Eye Selector is so
useful.
The Fish Eye Selector in the previous example was created as a widget, which
is why it can be displayed as grid. If the Fish Eye Selector was created as a
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