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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> Dashboard Tutorial A<br />

12 Type Daily Order Count in the panel list, <strong>and</strong> then press ENTER.<br />

To set the current panel to Daily Order Count<br />

13 Select Daily Order Count in the list of panels.<br />

14 Click Set as Current.<br />

15 Click OK to return to the dashboard.<br />

Notice that the title bar of the panel stack displays “Daily Order Count”<br />

(you may have to scroll the Layout area to the right to view it). Since all<br />

the panels are identical right now, this is the only indication as to which<br />

panel is being displayed.<br />

To apply a gradient color to the current panel (Panel1)<br />

16 Right-click the panel stack <strong>and</strong> select Format. The Format Objects dialog<br />

box opens.<br />

17 Select Container in the list of objects on the left.<br />

18 Click the Background tab.<br />

19 Select Gradient from the Background style drop-down list.<br />

20 Select Sea Green from the Color 1 drop-down list (the color name<br />

appears when you hover over the color swatches).<br />

21 Select Grey-25% from the Color 2 drop-down list.<br />

To format the title bar<br />

22 Select Title in the list of objects on the left.<br />

23 Click the Font tab.<br />

24 Set Size to 8.<br />

25 Set Color to White.<br />

26 Click the Background tab.<br />

27 Select Black from the Fill color drop-down list.<br />

28 Click OK to return to the dashboard.<br />

© 2012 <strong>MicroStrategy</strong>, Inc. Creating the Daily Order Count panel 383

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