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Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

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Providing Flash Analysis <strong>and</strong> Interactivity: <strong>Widgets</strong> <strong>Dashboards</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Widgets</strong> <strong>Creation</strong> <strong>Guide</strong><br />

Once the widget is created, if you provided objects to support drilling<br />

or time series animation, you must enable these features. For steps to<br />

enable drilling or time series animation in the widget, see Formatting<br />

an Interactive Bubble Graph widget, page 323.<br />

b Place at least three metrics on the columns. The first three metrics are<br />

displayed along the X-axis, the Y-axis, <strong>and</strong> the Z-axis, in order from<br />

left to right, by default. For example, the first metric is displayed on<br />

the X-axis. The Z-axis value determines the size of the bubbles. (You<br />

can enable or disable the ability for an analyst to change which metric<br />

displays along each axis. For steps, see Formatting an Interactive<br />

Bubble Graph widget.)<br />

To enable the widget to be displayed<br />

6 View <strong>and</strong> test your results in one of two ways:<br />

• Select Flash Mode from the Home menu.<br />

– If Flash Mode is not available in the Home menu, you must make<br />

Flash Mode available in the document. For steps, see Determining<br />

the display modes users can choose to work in, page 56.<br />

• Select Interactive Mode from the Home menu.<br />

– To be viewable in Interactive Mode, the widget must be enabled to<br />

be displayed in non-Flash mode. For steps to allow a widget to be<br />

displayed in non-Flash mode, see Defining how a widget is<br />

displayed in different views <strong>and</strong> modes, page 285.<br />

Once the widget is created, if you provided objects to support drilling or time<br />

series animation, you must enable these features. For steps to enable drilling<br />

or time series animation in the widget, see Formatting an Interactive Bubble<br />

Graph widget, page 323.<br />

An Interactive Bubble Graph widget does not need a separate selector to<br />

allow a user to interact with it. However, you can use an Interactive Bubble<br />

Graph widget as a selector. For an example <strong>and</strong> more information, see Using<br />

an Interactive Bubble Graph widget as a selector, page 358.<br />

You can add links to an Interactive Bubble Graph widget. Linking allows<br />

users to connect from a widget in a dashboard (the source) <strong>and</strong> open a<br />

document or report (the target). If you add a link to an Interactive Bubble<br />

Graph widget, a Links menu is displayed when a <strong>MicroStrategy</strong> Web user<br />

hovers the cursor over an bubble in the widget. The user can click a link in<br />

the Links menu to open the target. See Linking in widgets, page 295 for<br />

instructions <strong>and</strong> examples.<br />

248 Creating widgets © 2012 <strong>MicroStrategy</strong>, Inc.

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