Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

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Providing Flash Analysis and Interactivity: Widgets Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide
bottom right corner of the Grid/Graph identifies the type of widget you
have added to the document.
4 If desired, resize the widget by clicking and then dragging its handles.
To add objects to the Grid/Graph that contains the widget
The steps below ensure that the widget can display all three microcharts
(bar, sparkline, and bullet), but steps are also below to display or hide any
of the microchart types.
5 To add attributes, from the Dataset Objects panel on the left select
attributes and drag them on top of the widget, based on the following
requirements:
• If KPI List mode will not be used, place at least two attributes on the
rows, based on the following:
– The elements of the first attribute are displayed as text in the first
column of the widget. The number of rows in the widget represents
the number of elements from the first attribute on the rows. For
example, the widget above has seven rows of regional data because
the Region attribute on the rows has seven different elements, or
regions.
– The last (right-most) attribute on the rows determines the X-axis
values in the bar microcharts and sparkline microcharts.
– If the rows contain at least three attributes, each attribute (except
the last, right-most attribute) is combined and displayed as a row
in the widget. If you want to indent these rows so users can
collapse or expand them in groups, display the widget in Grid
mode with indented rows; steps are included in this procedure.
• If you want to display rows as a list of KPIs, place only one attribute
on the rows. Use a time-based attribute such as Month or Year since
the attribute controls the time series of the bar and sparklines charts.
6 To add metrics, from the Dataset Objects panel on the left select metrics
and drag them on top of the widget, based on the following requirements:
• To display all three microchart types, place at least seven metrics on
the columns, as follows:
– The first (left-most) metric determines the height of the bars in the
bar microcharts and the peak points in the sparkline microcharts.
– The second metric creates the horizontal reference lines that are
displayed in the sparkline microcharts.
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