Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

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Providing Flash Analysis and Interactivity: Widgets Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide
A Fish Eye Selector created as a widget cannot switch panels on a panel
stack, although it can update dynamic text fields on a panel.
Fish Eye Selector: Widget vs. selector
The table below summarizes the differences in functionality between a Fish
Eye Selector created as a widget and as a selector.
Targets Grid/Graphs and dynamic fields
on panel stacks
Created as a Widget Created as a Selector
Yes Yes
Switches panels on a panel stack No Yes
Replaces selector item text with images Yes Yes
Can be the target of another selector Yes Only if the selector is on a panel
stack (see Determining how the
target of a selector displays when no
data exists, page 149)
For steps to create a Fish Eye Selector as a widget, see Creating a Fish Eye
Selector as a widget, page 219. For steps to create a Fish Eye Selector as a
selector, see Creating a Fish Eye Selector as a selector, page 222.
How a Fish Eye Selector is created affects how it can be displayed in various
Web modes and Desktop views, as shown in the following table.
View or Mode
MicroStrategy Web
Fish Eye Selector
Created as a Widget
Fish Eye Selector
Created as a Selector
Editable Mode • Grid or graph • Standard selector
Express Mode • Widget
• Grid or graph
• Placeholder
• Hidden
Flash Mode • Widget
• Grid or graph
Interactive Mode • Widget
• Grid or graph
• Placeholder
• Hidden
Desktop
• Standard selector
• Widget
• Standard selector
218 Creating widgets © 2012 MicroStrategy, Inc.