Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

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Formatting Widgets Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide
dataset). For example, the font colors and types defined for the underlying
graph report can be displayed in the widget. Steps to determine whether or
not the widget inherits the underlying graph formatting are included with
each widget’s formatting steps, below.
For details to format the underlying reports and graphs that the widgets are
based on, click Help in the dialog box you are using to format the widget, or
see the Reports and Graphing chapters of the MicroStrategy Advanced
Reporting Guide.
Formatting a widget
Each type of widget allows formatting specific to the type of widget. For
example, you can change the number format of the metric values in a Bubble
Grid widget, Cylinder widget, or Gauge widget. For an Interactive Stacked
Graph widget, you can change the font of the text that appears in the graph
and the color of the check boxes on the left side of the graph.
Use the appropriate link below to learn what formatting options are available
for the specific type of widget you are working with, and for steps to format
the widget.
• Formatting a Bubble Grid widget, page 303
• Formatting a Cylinder widget, page 305
• Formatting a Data Cloud widget, page 305
• Formatting a Date Selection widget, page 307
Formatting a Date Selection widget for a mobile device, page 309
• Formatting a Fish Eye Selector, page 309
• Formatting a Funnel widget, page 313
• Formatting a Gauge widget, page 315
• Formatting a Graph Matrix (deprecated) widget, page 316
• Formatting a Heat Map widget, page 318
• Formatting an Image Layout widget, page 321
• Formatting an Interactive Bubble Graph widget, page 323
• Formatting an Interactive Stacked Graph widget, page 327
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