Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide Viewing Data Related to Widgets: Using Widgets as Selectors 7
The stacked contribution bar graph on the left side of the widget can also be
used as a selector. When you hover the cursor over the graph, the cursor is
displayed as a hand pointer to indicate that the graph is a selector. Since each
section of the graph represents a row in the grid, the graph can be used to
trigger all of the selectors enabled in the widget. Clicking a section of the
stacked graph updates the Grid/Graphs within the dashboard with a set of
data related to the attribute element you clicked.
If only one attribute is set as a selector in the stacked graph, when you click
that section in the graph, the dashboard displays data for only that attribute’s
elements.
To create a Weighted List Viewer widget, see Creating a Weighted List
Viewer widget, page 282. To enable a Weighted List Viewer widget as a
selector, see Creating the widget used as a selector, page 367.
Creating the widget used as a selector
This section provides steps to designate the target Grid/Graph or panel stack
as a selector.
Enabling widgets to be used as selectors
To enable a widget to be used as a selector, the widget must be a Bubble Grid,
Data Cloud, Heat Map, Interactive Bubble Graph, Interactive Stacked Graph,
Time Series Slider, or Waterfall widget.
Prerequisites
• You have already created a widget that contains the report objects to use
as selectors. For steps, see To convert a Grid/Graph into a widget,
page 293.
• You have created the panel stack or Grid/Graph to use as the target. For
steps, see Inserting a panel stack, page 70.
• The selector and target must have an attribute in common.
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