Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

Glossary Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide
Web. Subsequent document executions in the same mode use
the cache. If document caching is disabled, the document
query is submitted to your data warehouse every time that
you execute the document in a different mode.
calculated expression A metric obtained dynamically, directly from metrics on a
document dataset, by using at least one of the metrics in the
document. Calculated expressions allow you to use simple
arithmetic operators (+, -, *, /) to combine metrics from
different datasets in the document.
See also:
• Derived metric
conditional formatting Used to format specified controls in a document depending
on predefined criteria. It allows certain settings of controls,
including sections, to be controlled by data-driven
conditions. Conditional formatting in documents is similar to
thresholds in reports.
control Any item in the document’s Layout area that you can select.
This can be a text field, line, rectangle, image, panel stack,
selector, Grid/Graph, or HTML container. These different
kinds of controls are referred to as control types.
See also:
• Grid/Graph
• HTML container
• Panel stack
• Selector
• Text field
control default A set of options that can be set for each type of control and
each section in a document. You can set the defaults
according to the control that is currently selected; afterward,
its format is applied to any object of the same type that you
create in the document.
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