Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide Dashboard Tutorial A
books were on hand at the beginning of the month. (The entire Movies
rectangle is not shown in this image.)
Similarly, the smaller rectangles are also sized according to the beginning
inventory. The rectangles in the first row of the Movies rectangle are larger
than the rectangles in the first row of the Books rectangle. This indicates that
more copies of each movie were on hand than copies of each book.
The colors displayed in the widget represent the state of the individual items
(positive or negative growth). In this heat map, blue denotes positive growth
and green denotes negative growth. The colors applied to each rectangle are
generated by the second metric on the Grid/Graph, Percent Growth. For
example, all the items in the image above had negative growth during the
month, since more items were sold than were added to inventory. The
exception is one item in Electronics, the Hewlett Packard CD-Writer Plus,
displayed in green in the previous image. As shown in the following image,
its inventory grew 20%.
In
Flash Mode in MicroStrategy Web, you can change the colors used
to denote positive and negative growth. For the steps to do this, see
Formatting a Heat Map widget, page 318.
When you hover over a rectangle in the heat map, information about that
rectangle is displayed. For example, in the sample above, the cursor is
pointing to the rectangle representing the Hewlett Packard CD-Writer Plus.
The information displays the metric data for that attribute element, in this
case, Begin on Hand and Percent Growth.
Compare the data for the Hewlett Packard CD-Writer Plus shown above with
the data for the Beatles Anthology displayed below. Note the difference in the
size of the rectangles, since the album had 320 copies on hand at the
beginning of the month, compared to only 40 CD-Writers. The CD-Writer
rectangle is green, representing positive inventory growth, while the album is
blue-green, representing a small negative growth. The rectangles around the
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