Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide Dashboard Tutorial A
Creating a Bubble Graph widget
As with creating the other widgets for this dashboard, you must first create a
Grid/Graph and then turn it into a widget.
A Bubble Graph widget must have at least one attribute on the rows of the
Grid/Graph and three metrics on the columns. These metrics are displayed
along the X-axis, Y-axis, and Z-axis (the size of the bubble) of the widget, in
order from left to right. In this widget, the X-axis is the Profit per Employee
metric, the Y-axis is the Revenue per Employee metric, and the Z-axis is the
Units Sold metric.
To display a different color bubble (series) for each attribute element on the
bubble graph, an attribute is placed above the three metrics on the columns.
In this widget, that attribute is Year. For an in-depth explanation of the
different objects on the widget, see Creating an Interactive Bubble Graph
widget, page 243.
To enable drilling on the bubble graph, an attribute must be placed to the
right of the attribute in the rows. This attribute must be a child of the
attribute already on the rows. The custom group you created in Creating a
custom group, page 403 provides the correct structure for this attribute. For
detailed information on this requirement, with an example, see Supporting
drilling using a custom group, page 245.
To create a Bubble Graph widget
1 Create an empty Grid/Graph by selecting Grid from the Insert menu.
When you move the cursor to the Layout area, the pointer becomes
crosshairs.
2 Click and drag in the panel stack to add the Grid/Graph. Do not worry
about the size or position; you will adjust them later.
3 Drag the following objects from the Datasets pane to the row axis of the
Grid/Graph:
• Month of Year
• Region
• Call Center CG
4 Drag the following objects from the Datasets pane to the column axis of
the Grid/Graph:
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