Dashboards and Widgets Creation Guide - MicroStrategy

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3.LAYERING DATA: PANELS AND
PANEL STACKS
Introduction
A control is any selectable item in the dashboard’s area. This can be a text
field, line, rectangle, image, panel, panel stack, selector, or Grid/Graph
object. When designing a dashboard, controls are organized together in
small groups. These groups of controls are placed in a holder called a panel.
Because the controls are grouped together on a panel, they can be presented
to the dashboard user one group at a time. This lets the designer create
several different views (or panels) of data, each view (panel) containing a
logical grouping of controls that display data that is related in some
meaningful way.
A panel stack is a collection of individual panels, stacked on top of each
other. Only one panel can be displayed at a time. An analyst can flip from
panel to panel within a dashboard’s panel stack, displaying exactly the set of
information he wants to see grouped together on the screen.
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