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About dashboards

You can create customized, interactive dashboards to explore your business data. You create and interact with dashboards in MicroStrategy Web. You can also display dashboards on an iPad with MicroStrategy Mobile. In MicroStrategy Developer, you can view dashboards, with a limited range of interactivity.

In HTML View and PDF View, a dashboard is displayed as a static document. You can update and modify the document in Design View. You can therefore use a dashboard as a starting point for a document, to add data and a structure to the document. Switch to the Document Editor to add formatting and fine-tune the document.

Saving the dashboard in MicroStrategy Developer converts it to a document; it cannot be converted back to a dashboard.

Dashboards in MicroStrategy Web

In MicroStrategy Web, you can interact with a dashboard in the following ways:

  • View the data as a grid, graph, or widget

  • Add the data to a graphical representation, such as a bar graph or pie chart

  • Display the data in an interactive widget, such as a Google Map, Graph Matrix, or Heat Map

    For examples of the different types of visualizations, see Visualizations in dashboards.

  • Filter the data, by the elements of an attribute or the value of a metric

  • Group the data, by selecting the attributes to page by, and then selecting which element to display

  • Sort data

  • Drill into the data

  • Move attributes and metrics around the template, quickly swapping objects between the rows and columns of the dashboard

  • Add data from existing reports, documents, and Intelligent Cubes

In MicroStrategy Web, you can quickly and efficiently create a meaningful display, since you do not need to switch to Design View to change the data that is displayed in the dashboard. You can quickly create a dashboard from existing sources: reports, documents, and Intelligent Cubes. Once you select the data from the source, the data is automatically added to an interactive grid. You can immediately begin sorting, pivoting, and filtering data. For information on creating and working with dashboards in MicroStrategy Web, including instructions and examples, see the MicroStrategy Web Help. TheDocument and Dashboard Analysis Guide also includes instructions to work with dashboards in MicroStrategy Web.

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