Linking in widgets

Linking allows users to connect from a widget in a document (the source) to another document or a report (the target). For example, you can link a widget displaying sales information by customer region to a related document, such as the top ten employees by profit. In MicroStrategy Web, the user can click the link in the widget to view this document and compare data.

If a link is added to an attribute in the widget's Grid/Graph, the name of the target report or document displays in the tooltip associated with the attribute when the widget is displayed. In the image below, two documents have been added as links to the Region attribute. When the user hovers the cursor over the Web region, the Links menu is displayed. The user can select a linked document from the menu to open it.

You can add links to the following widgets:

• Data Cloud

• Heat Map

• Interactive Bubble Graph

• Microcharts

For information on how to add links to each widget, and which widget element can be used to display a link, see:

• Adding a link to a Data Cloud widget

• Adding a link to a Heat Map widget

• Adding a link to an Interactive Bubble Graph widget

• Adding a link to a Microcharts widget

Specifying how prompts are answered in the target

For each prompt in the target (the report or document being executed from the link), you must select a prompt answer method, which is how to answer the prompt. You also specify how to answer any other prompts that are not listed. These can be prompts that are created as the result of an answer to one of the original prompts in the target, such as a prompt-in-prompt answer. They can also be prompts added to the target later, after the link is created. These prompts are listed as the Any other prompt option in the list of prompts in the interface.

The prompt answer methods are briefly described in the table below. See Specifying how prompts are answered in the target for an expanded description of each method, with an example.

Prompt Answer Method	Requirements	Prompts in the Target Are Answered By...
Answer with the same prompt	Same prompt in the target and source	The prompt answer from the source
Prompt user	None	The user (prompts are displayed when the target is executed)
Default answer	None	The default prompt answer for the target prompt
Dynamically	Attribute element prompt in target If you create the link in MicroStrategy Web, you can select Dynamically for value prompts.	The object selected in the source (for example, the attribute element that the user clicked on)
Empty answer	Target prompt must not be required	Nothing (no prompt answer is provided from the source and the user is not prompted)
Static element list	Attribute element prompt in target	List of elements created by the link designer Used to pass attribute elements from conditional metrics to the target
Current unit	Hierarchy prompt in target	The object selected in the source (for example, the attribute element that the user clicked on)
All valid units	Hierarchy prompt in target	Any object to the left of or above the user selection in the source

Related Topics

• Adding a link to a Data Cloud widget

• Adding a link to a Heat Map widget

• Adding a link to an Interactive Bubble Graph widget

• Adding a link to a Microcharts widget

• Specifying how prompts are answered in the target

• Specifying the default link when multiple links are available

• Linking from documents