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Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

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<strong>Dashboards</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Widgets</strong> <strong>Creation</strong> <strong>Guide</strong> Providing Flash Analysis <strong>and</strong> Interactivity: <strong>Widgets</strong> 5<br />

2 From the Tools menu, click Document Properties. The Properties<br />

dialog box opens.<br />

3 From the left, select Document.<br />

4 To make a mode available for users to display the document in, select the<br />

check box in the Available display modes column for that display mode.<br />

5 Clear the check boxes for any display modes that you do not want users to<br />

have access to.<br />

6 Click OK to apply your changes <strong>and</strong> return to the document. The next<br />

time the document is executed, only the display modes you selected are<br />

available in the View menu or on the St<strong>and</strong>ard toolbar.<br />

Displaying a message in place of a widget<br />

<strong>Widgets</strong> are not displayed in PDF View in Desktop. You can select what is<br />

displayed to replace the widget. (For more information on the display<br />

options, see Defining how a widget is displayed in different views <strong>and</strong><br />

modes, page 285.)<br />

You can either hide the Grid/Graph to which the widget is attached, display a<br />

blank space, or display a message in place of the widget. This message<br />

indicates to users that the missing widget cannot be displayed in the current<br />

mode.<br />

For example, the following thermometer widget is displayed in Flash Mode<br />

in <strong>MicroStrategy</strong> Web:<br />

© 2012 <strong>MicroStrategy</strong>, Inc. Defining how a widget is displayed in different views <strong>and</strong> modes 291

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