MicroStrategy Mobile Design and Administration Guide

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Designing Reports and Documents for iOS and Android Devices Mobile Design and Administration Guide
Creating and adding a Timeline widget to a report or
document
The following are instructions to define a Timeline widget for display on a
mobile device. You can also define Information Windows for the widget,
which can display additional information when users tap a section of the
timeline.
Prerequisites
• You must have a total of three datasets for the Timeline widget, which
contain data as follows:
A main dataset, which must have the following objects:
– One attribute on the rows. Each attribute element is shown as a
row on the Timeline widget. In the example above, the Asset
attribute is placed on the rows.
– The Year and Quarter attributes, in that order, on the columns.
– One metric for Status, with codes for the asset’s status, such as
leased, sold, and so on. This metric determines the color of the
timeline for a particular status. You can define the colors using
thresholds on the Status metric.
– One metric for Event, with codes for events in the asset’s timeline.
You can define the appearance of the event marker by defining a
threshold on the Event metric.
– Optionally, one metric for the count of events for each asset, which
contains the number of events that have occurred in a given
quarter. If this value is greater than 1 for a specific quarter, a
number badge for the quarter is displayed in the widget in place of
an event icon. This number badge contains the number of events
that affected the asset during the quarter.
A dataset that relates the asset to the KPI metrics. The metrics are
displayed on the right side of the widget. The dataset must contain the
following objects:
– On the rows, the attribute for which timelines are displayed. In the
example above, this is the Asset attribute.
– On the columns, the metrics for the KPIs.
A dataset that relates the Year to the KPI metrics. The metrics are
displayed at the bottom of the widget. The dataset must contain the
following objects:
86 Displaying data as interactive visualizations: widgets © 2012 MicroStrategy, Inc.