Report Services Document Analysis Guide - MicroStrategy

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Analyzing Documents in MicroStrategy Web Report Services Document Analysis Guide
Analyzing a Microcharts widget
The Microcharts widget consists of compact representations of data that
allow you to quickly visualize trends in data. Microcharts convey information
so that you can, at a glance, determine the trend of a metric over time or how
a metric is performing compared to forecasted figures. The Microcharts
widget is useful for this purpose because individual microcharts can display
attribute and metric data in a small graph that would otherwise be displayed
as a single value in a grid report cell.
One, two, or three microcharts can be displayed in the Microcharts widget,
depending on how the document designer defined the widget. For example,
bar and sparkline microcharts are included on the left side of the widget
shown below. These microcharts convey the trend of a metric over time, from
left to right. On the right side of the widget, bullet microcharts reveal the
percentage of cases that were closed, in correlation with the goals for the
regions, which are represented by the vertical lines within the bullet
microcharts.
When you hover your cursor over a datapoint in a microchart, information
about that datapoint is displayed in a tooltip. For example, if you hover over
a bar in the bar chart microchart shown above (Trailing 12 Months, Min/
Max), the tooltip displays the month and the number of open cases.
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