If a Fish Eye Selector is created as a selector, the selector can be displayed as a standard selector such as a listbox or button bar in non-Flash modes in MicroStrategy Web. If you want to display the Fish Eye Selector as a Grid/Graph, or hide it completely, in non-Flash modes, create it as a widget instead. For instructions, see Creating a Fish Eye Selector as a widget. A Fish Eye Selector created as a selector can switch the panels of a panel stack, unlike a Fish Eye Selector created as a widget.
You can create a new Fish Eye Selector or apply its style to an existing selector. The following procedure lists the steps to create a new selector. To apply the style to an existing selector, set the Flash style property (from the Property List or Properties dialog box) to Fish Eye Selector. For more information, see Modifying properties for a selector.
Open a document in Design Mode.
Expand the document section where you want the selector by clicking the plus sign next to the section name.
Click the Selector Control icon in the toolbar, and then select Fish Eye Selector. When you move the mouse to the Layout area, the pointer appears as a crosshair.
Click in the desired section of the Layout area. If you click and drag in the section, you can size the selector. The selector is added to the document.
Right-click the new selector, and select Properties and Formatting. The Properties and Formatting dialog box opens. You can also change these properties using the Property List.
From the left, click Selector.
Select an Action Type from the drop-down list:
Select attribute element: The selector displays a list of the elements from the attribute selected in the Source field, when the document is displayed in MicroStrategy Web.
Select Metric: The selector displays a list of the metrics available in the Grid/Graphs selected as the Target, when the document is displayed in MicroStrategy Web.
Metrics in text fields within the target are not listed when the document is displayed. For example, a panel stack is selected as a Target and contains a metric in a text field. That metric is not shown as an item in the selector.
Select Panel: The selector displays a list of the panels available in the panel stack selected as the Target, when the document is displayed in MicroStrategy Web.
If DHTML style is set to Checkboxes, Select Panels is unavailable, since you cannot display multiple panels simultaneously. Select a different DHTML style to display panels.
If
you chose Select attribute element
as the Action Type,
select a Source from
the drop-down list.
The Source drop-down list contains all of the attributes in all of
the datasets in the document. The selector displays the attribute elements
of the attribute selected as the Source.
From the list of Available Targets on the left, select Grid/Graph(s) and/or panel stack(s) and click > to add them to the list of Selected Targets.
If the Action Type is set to Select attribute element or Select metric, you can select single or multiple Grid/Graphs or panel stacks, or any combination of Grid/Graphs and panel stacks. The target Grid/Graph displays the attribute elements or metrics that the user chooses in the selector.
The Fish Eye Selector is viewable only in Flash Mode in MicroStrategy Web. By default, it is displayed as the Listbox style in all other modes and views; to change that, select a different DHTML style. The styles are listed below:
Drop-down
Slider
Listbox
Radio Buttons
Check Boxes
Button Bar
Link Bar
For Slider, Radio Buttons, Check Boxes, and Button Bar selector styles, the Orientation option is available. You can select whether to display the selector horizontally (on a single line from left to right) or vertically (in a single column).
By default, the selector shows the All option, which allows the user to display all the attribute elements or metrics in the Target at once. To disable the All option, clear the Show option for All check box.
This option is not available if either of the following is true:
The Action Type is set to Select panel.
The DHTML style is set to Slider and the Allow multiple selections check box is selected.
By default, the All option is displayed as (All) in the selector. You can overwrite this by entering text into the Alias for All field.
This option is available only if Show option for All is selected.
By
default, the Allow multiple selections
option is cleared for the Slider, Listbox, Link Bar, and Button Bar styles.
To allow the user to choose multiple items in the selector, select the
Allow multiple selections
check box.
The Allow multiple selections
check box allows the user to choose more than one item in the selector.
For all other styles, this check box is unavailable and the option is
disabled, since those styles do not support multiple selections. The one
exception is Check Boxes, where the option is enabled.
Click OK to return to the document.
Save the document.
To view and interact with the Fish Eye Selector, you must open the document and switch to Flash Mode if the document does not initially open in Flash Mode.
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