The table below suggests formatting ideas and provides steps to format
the Heat Map widget. The steps can be performed in Flash Mode. They can
also be performed in Interactive Mode if the widget has been defined to
display as a widget in DHTML, and DHTML is enabled in Web. For instructions
to determine how the widget is displayed, see
Determining
how a widget is rendered in non-Flash modes. For instructions to enable
DHTML, see
Enabling DHTML in
MicroStrategy Web.
What to Format in the Widget |
How to Format It |
Determine whether to show metric values |
In Flash
Mode or Interactive Mode,
right-click the widget and select Properties.
The Heat Map dialog box opens.
On the Display
tab, select or clear the Show metric
values check box.
This option
allows you to determine whether to display the metric values -- for instance,
revenue by state -- in each section of the widget. The widget is divided
into sections by attributes. For example, you add customer region, quarter,
and revenue to the widget. The widget will be divided into the customer
region section first and then into quarters within the customer region
section. If you select the Show metric
values check box, then you can display revenue values for each
quarter in each customer region section.
Click
OK to save the changes.
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Display a legend for the heat map |
In
Flash Mode or Interactive Mode,
right-click the widget and select Properties.
The Heat Map dialog box opens.
On the Display
tab, select the Show Legend check
box.
Click OK
to save the changes.
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Determine whether to allow attributes to be removed from the widget
Removed attributes can be restored when needed. |
In
Flash Mode or Interactive Mode,
right-click the widget and select Properties.
The Heat Map dialog box opens.
On the Display
tab, select or clear the Remove Attributes
from Template check box.
Click OK
to return to the document.
Note: If the metric defining
the size or color does not use SUM, do not allow attributes to be removed
from the widget.
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Determine whether to display labels in each rectangle |
In Flash
Mode or Interactive Mode,
right-click the widget and select Properties.
The Heat Map dialog box opens.
On the Display
tab, select one of the following options from the Show
Labels drop-down list.
On:
Labels are displayed in the rectangles.
Off:
Labels are not displayed in the rectangles.
Proportional:
Labels are displayed in the rectangles, with the size of each label reflecting
the size of the rectangle. Rectangles that reflect positive values are
displayed with larger labels than rectangles that reflect negative values.
Click OK
to return to the document.
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Select the algorithm used to size and position the rectangles |
In Flash
Mode or Interactive Mode,
right-click the widget and select Properties.
The Heat Map dialog box opens.
On the Display
tab, select one of the following options under Layout.
Click OK
to return to the document.
|
Select the color of the background |
In Flash
Mode or Interactive Mode,
right-click the widget and select Properties.
The Heat Map dialog box opens.
On the Format
tab, select the Background color for the widget.
Click OK
to return to the document. The background color displays behind all of
the object sections and the widget legend.
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Select the color of the borders |
In Flash
Mode or Interactive
Mode, right-click the widget and select Properties.
The Heat Map dialog box opens.
On the Format
tab, select a color for the borders of the widget from the Border
Color palette.
Click OK
to save the changes. The border color outlines the entire widget.
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Select the color of the attribute headings |
In Flash
Mode or Interactive Mode,
right-click the widget and select Properties.
The Heat Map dialog box opens.
On the Format
tab, select a color for the headings from the Header
Color palette.
Click OK
to save the changes. The heading color displays on all the attribute headings
in the widget.
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Enable scale boundaries
|
By default, the minimum and maximum range for the color slider is determined
automatically by the data in the widget. If the data changes, then the
minimum and maximum can also change.
You can instead set the minimum and maximum range for a specific metric,
so that specific colors always represent specific metric values. Outlying
metric values use solid colors, rather than shaded colors.
In Flash
Mode or Interactive Mode,
right-click the widget and select Properties.
The Heat Map dialog box opens.
On the Metric
Options tab, select the metric from the drop-down list.
Select the Scale
Boundaries check box.
Type the Minimum
and Maximum values in the corresponding
fields.
Click
OK to save the changes.
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Select the aggregation function for the Heat Map widget |
You can change the aggregation function used to calculate the size of
the larger areas in the widget. The value of this function is displayed
in a tooltip when the cursor hovers over an area.
In Flash
Mode or Interactive Mode,
right-click the widget and select Properties.
The Heat Map dialog box opens.
Click the Metric
Options tab.
From the Aggregation
Function drop-down list, select an aggregation function:
Sum
Average
Count
Maximum
Minimum
Geometric
Average
Click
OK to save the changes.
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Apply formatting inherited from the widget's Grid/Graph to the widget
This widget automatically inherits the number and date formatting from
the widget's Grid/Graph. |
In Editable
Mode, right-click the widget, then select Properties
and Formatting. The Properties and Formatting dialog box opens.
Format the widget's Grid/Graph by
selecting the appropriate
options in the Properties and Formatting dialog box.
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