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Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy

You're reading from   Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy Master Business Intelligence with Microstrategy 10

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884405
Length 396 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Neil Mehta Neil Mehta
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Himani Rana Himani Rana
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Ning Ma Ning Ma
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Dmitry Anoshin Dmitry Anoshin
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Preface 1. Getting Started with MicroStrategy FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up an Analytics Semantic Layer and Public Objects 3. Building Advanced Reports and Documents 4. Advanced Visualization Techniques 5. Customization of MicroStrategy 6. Predictive Analysis with MicroStrategy 7. Accelerating Your Business with Mobile Analytics 8. Data Discovery with MicroStrategy Desktop 9. MicroStrategy System Administration 10. Design and Implementation of the Security Model 11. Big Data Analytics with MicroStrategy 12. MicroStrategy Troubleshooting

Widgets


Widgets provide the user with a visual and interactive look for their data. In this section, with MicroStrategy 10 we will discuss DHTML widgets. We will also talk about replacing Flash widgets with other components, such as graph or selectors.

The following screenshot shows the types of DHTML widget available with MicroStrategy 10:

Perform following steps to create widgets:

  1. In MicroStrategy Web, open the document in Design Mode.

  2. Click Insert | Widgets | DHTML and select the appropriate widget.

  3. Click on the location in your document where you want to place the widget. The grid/graph containing the widget is displayed. A small icon at the bottom-right corner of the grid/graph identifies the type of widget you have added to the document.

  4. Add objects to the grid/graph from the Dataset Objects panel on the left, select objects, and drag them on top of the widget, based on the requirements of a selected widget type.

Date selection widget

This is a calendar selector that lets the user view data...

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