Report Services Document Analysis Guide - MicroStrategy

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Analyzing Documents in MicroStrategy Web Report Services Document Analysis Guide
For example, the Date Selection widget is useful if you are working with a
dashboard that displays data from Q4 2007 and you want to view data from a
date before that. You can select the date that you want to see and the data for
that date will display on the dashboard, as shown below:
The Date Selection widget above is shown in Flash Mode. In Interactive
Mode and Express Mode, the document designer determines if the widget
displays as:
• A Date Selection widget
• A grid or graph
• A selector, such as a listbox or button bar
• Hidden (nothing is displayed)
For example, the same dashboard is shown below in Interactive Mode, and
the Date Selection widget is displayed as a grid. Notice the scroll bar at the
left: all the dates are not shown in this sample, because the list is so long.
Because the list is so long, dates even further down the list do not appear in
90 Flash analysis and interactivity: widgets © 2012 MicroStrategy, Inc.