Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

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The widget consists of a group of clustered bars displayed from left to right.
The X-axis contains either attribute elements or metrics, depending on
where the attributes and metrics are placed on the widget’s template. The
Y-axis displays a range of values based on the metrics on the widget’s
template.
In the example shown below, metrics are displayed along the X-axis. The
first bar represents the amount of sales revenue generated in 2006. The
remaining bars in the widget represent the other metrics on the X-axis,
including the Depreciation and Tax Expense metrics. These bars depict the
business factors that diminished revenue and one factor (the Other Gains
and Losses metric) that increased revenue. As a group, these bars highlight
the contributions of various aspects of the business on total revenue from
sales. This final value is represented by the last bar on the right, which
represents Net Income for 2006.
The increments and decrements in a Waterfall widget can be calculated and
displayed in either of the following ways:
• Increments and decrements are calculated and displayed in the widget
based on the metrics that are included on the Grid/Graph and the order
of those metrics.
It is recommended that you use this method when the metrics are on
the rows of the Grid/Graph and the attributes are on the columns of
the Grid/Graph. This allows you to place the metrics along the X-axis
in a specific order and view the increment and decrement bars in that
order.
To ensure that the metrics determine how increments and decrements
are calculated and displayed, select the Increments/Decrements
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