Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

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Formatting Widgets Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide
What to Format in the Widget How to Format It
Determine the font and font size of news
items
1 In Flash Mode or Interactive Mode, right-click the widget
and select Properties. The RSS Reader dialog box opens.
2 Select the News Items tab.
3 From the drop-down list, select Fonts.
4 From the Font Type and Font Size drop-down lists, select
a font and size, respectively.
5 Select the Italic and Bold check boxes to display the text in
italics and bold, respectively.
6 Click OK to save the changes.
Choose the color of news items 1 In Flash Mode or Interactive Mode, right-click the widget
and select Properties. The RSS Reader dialog box opens.
2 Select the News Items tab.
3 From the drop-down list, select Colors.
4 To display the news items with alternating colors, select the
Alternating color for news items check box.
5 From the drop-down list, specify whether to format the
Background, Rollover background, Font, or Rollover
font.
6 Once you select an aspect of the news items to format,
from the color palettes, select the two colors in which to
display the news items.
7 Click OK to save the changes.
Determine how news articles that have
been read are displayed
Format the font of the news details
section
Choose the background color of the
news details section
1 In Flash Mode or Interactive Mode, right-click the widget
and select Properties. The RSS Reader dialog box opens.
2 Select the News Items tab.
3 From the drop-down list, select Read Articles.
4 To ensure that news articles that have been read are
displayed in a separate color, select the Mark as read
check box.
5 From the color palettes, select the color in which to display
all articles that have been read.
6 Click OK to save the changes.
1 In Flash Mode or Interactive Mode, right-click the widget
and select Properties. The RSS Reader dialog box opens.
2 Select the News Detail tab.
3 From the Font Type and Font Size drop-down lists, select
a font and font size.
4 From the Font color palette, select a font color.
5 You can also select the Italic and Bold check boxes to
display the text in italics and bold, respectively.
6 Click OK to save the changes.
1 In Flash Mode or Interactive Mode, right-click the widget
and select Properties. The RSS Reader dialog box opens.
2 Select the News Detail tab.
3 From the Background color drop-down list, select a color
for the background of the news details section.
4 Click OK to save the changes.
342 Formatting options by widget type © 2012 MicroStrategy, Inc.