Report Services Document Analysis Guide - MicroStrategy

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Analyzing Documents in MicroStrategy Web Report Services Document Analysis Guide
• The individual rectangles under each heading represent single attributes.
In this example, they represent different mutual funds, such as
Oppenheimer Main Street A (in the top right) and Vanguard Small Cap
Index (by the tooltip).
• The size of each rectangle represents its relative weight. This widget
shows that Large Blend funds are weighted more heavily than Mid-Cap
Blend funds in regard to net assets.
• The colors displayed in the widget represent different ranges of return
year-to-date percentages generated by the mutual funds. In the image
above, blue denotes higher percentages, while red and purple denote
lower percentages. You can define the colors used to denote these values,
as described in Interacting with a Heat Map widget in Flash Mode and
Interactive Mode, page 101.
• When you hover your cursor over a rectangle, data about that rectangle is
displayed in a tooltip. This includes the data described in the bullet points
above, as well as additional information that does not affect the Heat Map
widget. In this example, the Vanguard Small Cap Index data is displayed.
To
successfully analyze Heat Map widgets with large datasets, Flash
Player 10 or later must be installed on your computer.
Some Heat Map widgets are combined with an interactive selector so you can
select a different attribute element to view on the Heat Map widget. For
example, a Heat Map widget displays Revenue values for categories and
subcategories. The selector allows you to choose which regions to display
category and subcategory for.
Executing a report or another document from a Heat Map
widget
A Heat Map widget can have links, which allow you to connect from the
widget (the source) to another document or a report (the target).
Information can be passed from the source to the target. For example, the
target can display information only for the object selected in the source, for
the objects chosen in the source’s prompt, or for specific, pre-determined
objects, among other options. If the widget has links, when you hover your
cursor over an attribute element in the widget, the Links menu is displayed.
You can click a link in the Links menu, and the target opens.
For example, the Region attribute in the Heat Map widget shown below is
linked to the Top 2 Employees by Call Center report. This report is prompted
for Region, and the link passes the current region to the report. In Flash
100 Flash analysis and interactivity: widgets © 2012 MicroStrategy, Inc.