Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide Providing Flash Analysis and Interactivity: Widgets 5
To add objects to the Grid/Graph that contains the widget
5 From the Dataset Objects panel on the left, select objects and drag them
on top of the widget, based on the following requirements for this widget:
a Place at least one attribute on the rows. This attribute is used to create
the large rectangles whose names are displayed in the widget.
b You can place additional attributes on the Grid/Graph:
– To group each element of the first attribute inside the larger area,
place a second attribute to the right of the first. For example, the
Region attribute contains the element South and the Call Center
attribute contains the elements New Orleans and Memphis. If
Region is placed to the left of Call Center, a large area called South
is displayed in the widget, with smaller rectangles New Orleans
and Memphis inside.
– You can add additional attributes to further group the rectangles
in the Heat Map. Attributes that have a parent-child relationship
work best, because they are nested within one another in the Heat
Map.
c Place at least two metrics on the columns:
– The first metric on the columns determines the size of the small
rectangles within each large rectangle. Items with lower values are
represented by smaller rectangles.
– The second metric on the columns must be placed at the bottom of
the columns. It determines the color of each rectangle. It must
include values in the range of -1 to 1. This range is used to provide
different shadings of color.
– If more than two metrics are placed on the Grid/Graph, the
additional metrics are displayed in a tooltip when the user hovers a
cursor over the area.
6 To enable a legend for the widget, right-click the widget and select
Properties. On the Display tab, select the Show Legend check box and
click OK. A legend is displayed near the widget.
7 If you are creating a dynamic Heat Map widget, perform the following:
a Insert a selector, such as a Drop-down list, next to the widget. Users
choose attribute elements from this selector to change the display in
the widget. For steps to insert a selector, see Methods to create a
selector, page 117.
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