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
Define the slider or primary graph as a
selector
You can use either the slider or the
primary graph portion of the Time Series
Slider widget as a selector, which will
update a target Grid/Graph on the
dashboard when the user clicks the
selector. For details, see Using a Time
Series Slider widget as a selector,
page 362.
Determine whether to apply formatting
inherited from the widget’s underlying
graph report
The following formatting can be inherited
from the underlying graph:
• Number formatting
• Font type, size, and color
• Background and border color of the
widget
• Legend formatting, including position,
background color, and border color
• The maximum and minimum values
that can be displayed in the graph
• The interval between tick marks on the
axes of the graph
• The fill color of the area graph
Formatting a Waterfall widget
1 In Flash Mode, right-click the widget and select
Properties. The Time Series Slider dialog box opens.
2 Do one of the following:
• To use the slider as the selector, select Slider from the
Selectable Area drop-down list.
• To use the primary graph as the selector, select Primary
Graph from the Selectable Area drop-down list. To update
the target with a mouseover rather than a click, select the
Change selection on mouse over option.
3 Click OK to save the changes.
1 In Editable Mode, right-click the widget, point to View
Mode, and select Graph View.
2 From the Format menu, select Graph. The Format: Graph
dialog box opens.
3 From the Graph type drop-down list, select Vertical Area.
4 Format the widget’s underlying graph by selecting the
appropriate options in the dialog box. For details on each
option to format the widget’s underlying graph report, click
Help.
5 Click Apply, then click OK to return to the widget.
6 In Flash Mode, right-click the widget and select
Properties. The Time Series Slider dialog box opens.
7 Do one of the following:
• To apply formatting from the widget’s underlying graph,
select the Inherit grid formatting check box.
• To display the widget without inheriting formatting, clear the
Inherit grid formatting check box.
8 Click OK to save the changes.
For an image of a Waterfall widget and steps to add one to a document, see
Creating a Waterfall widget, page 278.
The table below lists the different aspects of the Waterfall widget that you
can format, and describes the steps to format them in MicroStrategy Web.
The steps can be performed in Flash Mode. They can also be performed in
Interactive Mode if the widget has been defined to display as a widget in
DHTML, and DHTML is enabled in Web. For steps to determine how the
widget is displayed, see Defining how a widget is displayed in different
346 Formatting options by widget type © 2012 MicroStrategy, Inc.