Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

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Creating an Interactive Stacked Graph widget
An Interactive Stacked Graph widget presents a combination of a check box
list and an area graph. The graph allows a user to see the contribution of
various metric series to the change in value of a larger set of data.
• By selecting individual attribute elements (for example, a list of years)
using the check boxes, analysts determine what data is displayed on the
area graph on the right. When all check boxes are selected, the area graph
is at its maximum size because it is representing contributions from each
individual element.
• This widget allows you to visualize total metric values as one large
stacked area, and the individual pieces of that total as smaller stacked
areas within the large stacked area. You can quickly analyze how the
individual parts make up the whole, which is useful when making
percent-to-total comparisons. To see how the individual parts make up
the whole, click the name of the attribute element on the left; you can
select multiple items by holding CTRL and selecting elements.
The image below shows a sample Interactive Stacked Graph widget:
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