Using Weighted List Viewer widgets as selectors

The grid in a Weighted List Viewer widget often consists of several attributes in the column headers and the elements of those attributes in the rows. You can enable these attributes and elements as selectors. This allows an analyst to select an attribute or an element, and then view specific data related to it in grids and graphs in the document.

When you click an attribute element that is enabled as a selector, any targeted grids and graphs are updated with a set of data related to the attribute element. For example, if you click Southeast, all data related to the Southeast region is displayed in the grids and graphs on the Report Services (RS) dashboard. You can select elements from different attributes simultaneously by clicking those elements. However, you cannot select multiple elements from the same attribute.

Each column in the grid, including the column headers, can act as a selector. When you click an attribute name displayed in a column header, all elements of that attribute are selected. This overrides the selection of any of the individual attribute elements within the column. The background color of the attribute changes to a lighter shade to indicate that the attribute is selected.

When two or more attributes in the widget are set as selectors, both of the selections occur independently of each other.

The stacked contribution bar graph on the left side of the widget can also be used as a selector. When you hover the cursor over the graph, the cursor is displayed as a hand pointer to indicate that the graph is a selector. Since each section of the graph represents a row in the grid, the graph can be used to trigger all of the selectors enabled in the widget. Clicking a section of the stacked graph updates the Grid/Graphs within the RS dashboard with a set of data related to the attribute element you clicked.

If only one attribute is set as a selector in the stacked graph, when you click that section in the graph, the RS dashboard displays data for only that attribute's elements.

To use a widget as a selector, you first choose the target Grid/Graph and/or panel stack in MicroStrategy Developer. You can also do this in Design Mode or Editable Mode in MicroStrategy Web. For details and steps, Viewing data related to widgets: Using widgets as selectors.