Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

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Providing Flash Analysis and Interactivity: Widgets Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide
• To display metric names in the selector, choose Select Metric. Users
will choose from this list to update target Grid/Graphs in the
document. Later in this procedure, you specify the target Grid/Graph
or panel stack whose metrics users will choose from.
Metrics
in text fields within the target are not listed when the
document is displayed. For example, a panel stack is selected as
a target and contains a metric in a text field. That metric is not
shown as an item in the selector.
• To display panels in the selector, choose Select Panel. Users will
choose from this list to update target panel stacks in the document.
Later in this procedure, you specify the target panel stack whose
panels users will choose from.
– If DHTML style is set to Checkboxes, the Select Panel option is not
available, since check boxes allow multiple selections and you
cannot display multiple panels simultaneously. To make the Select
Panel option available, select a different DHTML style.
9 If you chose Select attribute element from the Action Type drop-down list
above, specify an attribute from the Source drop-down list.
The Source drop-down list contains all of the attributes in all of the
datasets in the document. The source attribute that you choose becomes
the attribute whose elements are displayed in the selector for a user to
choose from.
To connect the selector to the target
10 If you choose Select panel as the Action Type, from the Panel Stack
drop-down list, select the panel stack that the selector will change.
The Panel Stack drop-down list contains all of the panel stacks in the
document. The selector displays the panels of the panel stack selected in
this option.
11 If users will be selecting attribute elements or metrics (in other words, if
you set the Action Type above to either Select attribute element or Select
metric), you can select one or multiple Grid/Graphs or panel stacks, and
any combination of Grid/Graphs and panel stacks. The target Grid/
Graph or panel stack displays the attribute elements or metrics that the
user chooses from the Fish Eye Selector.
• If targets are automatically maintained and you added the selector
and target to the same document section or panel, the target Grid/
Graph or panel stack is automatically added as a target to this selector.
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