A widget is a type of Report Services control that presents data in a visual and interactive way. In MicroStrategy Web, you can insert a widget into a document, or enable a report to be displayed as a widget on a mobile device. The widget is then displayed when the report or document is viewed on the mobile device with MicroStrategy Mobile.
You can display the following as widgets on the iPhone:
Data Cloud widget
Image Viewer widget
Interactive Grid widget
Map widget
Multimedia widget
Photo Uploader widget
Time Series widget
RSS Reader widget
You can display the following as widgets on the iPad:
Data Cloud widget
Date Selection widget (displays as a calendar on the iPad)
Graph
Matrix widget
Note: To create a Graph Matrix widget, create
a Visual Insight analysis with a Graph Matrix visualization, then
convert
the analysis to a document.
Heat Map widget
Image Viewer widget
Interactive Grid widget
Map widget
Microcharts widget
Multimedia widget
Photo Uploader widget
Timeline widget
Time Series widget
You can display the following as widgets on an Android device:
Note: For information on the requirements
to support the Map widget on Android devices, refer to the MicroStrategy
Readme.
Interactive Grid widget
Time Series widget
Image Viewer widget
Photo Uploader widget
Widgets for mobile devices display as Grid/Graphs in Flash Mode in MicroStrategy Web. You can determine how the widgets display in other MicroStrategy Web modes, and when exported to PDF and Excel. For more information on the alternative display setting, see Determining how a widget is rendered in non-Flash modes.
You can determine whether to size a widget in a document layout to take up the full screen when displayed on an iPhone or Android device, or display all grids, graphs, or widgets in the layout, using the Full Screen setting in the Properties and Formatting dialog box. For a list of the widget settings available in the Properties and Formatting dialog box, see Properties and Formatting dialog box: Widget.
For detailed steps to create a specific widget, see the topic for the widget type you want to create:
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