Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

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To enable KPI List mode
In KPI List mode, each KPI is represented by its own row of microcharts.
Because all data for a KPI is presented in one row of the Microchart
widget, trends are easier to spot, as shown below:
1 To display the widget in Ticker mode, from the Home menu select Flash
Mode, then right-click the widget and select Properties.
2 From the drop-down list at the top left, select Mode.
3 On the Mode tab, from the Operation Mode drop-down list, select Grid
or Vertical Scroll.
4 Specify the number of metrics to use to generate the rows of microcharts
for the KPIs, using the following guidelines:
• If one metric is used per KPI, only sparkline and bar charts and their
metrics are displayed. The horizontal reference line is not displayed in
the sparklines.
• If two metrics are used per KPI, sparkline and bar charts and their
metrics are displayed. The horizontal reference line is displayed.
• If three to six metrics are used per KPI, sparkline and bar charts and
their metrics are displayed. Additional metrics are displayed to the
right of the sparkline and bar charts and their metrics.
• If seven or more metrics are used per KPI, sparkline, bar, and bullet
charts are all displayed. Additional metrics are displayed to the right
of the sparkline and bar charts.
5 You can provide a name for the column that displays the metric
associated with the sparklines or bullet charts; this is the last data point
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