Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide Designing Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards 2
8 Group and sort the data. For instructions and background information,
see the Desktop Help.
9 Add totals, if desired. For instructions, see the Document Creation Guide
or Desktop Help.
10 Save the dashboard by selecting Save from the File menu.
11 You can now preview how the dashboard will display in MicroStrategy
Web. This is useful to help you size and place objects. You can also
manipulate the data in some of the ways that are available in Flash Mode.
• Use Flash View to preview the document as it will look in Flash mode
in MicroStrategy Web. You can use selectors and perform some
manipulations such as pivoting and sorting. To open the dashboard in
Flash View, from the View menu, select Flash.
• Use HTML View to preview the document as it will look in other
MicroStrategy Web modes. To open the dashboard in HTML View,
from the View menu, select HTML.
12 For a list of actions that you can perform in Flash View and HTML View,
see the MicroStrategy Document Analysis Guide or the Desktop Help.
13 To print the dashboard, use PDF View, as described in Printing a
document, page 4.
Designing a dashboard with the Blank Document template
You can create a dashboard using the standard MicroStrategy document
template, which is named the Blank Document; all the standard document
sections are displayed by default. However, you can hide or display sections
to help you create a dashboard.
For instructions, see the Document Creation Guide or the Desktop Help.
Creating document templates
You can create new document templates by:
• Creating the template from scratch, as described in To create a new
template for dashboards, page 54.
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