A Date Selection widget is a calendar selector that allows you to select dates for which you want to see data in a document or dashboard. You are able to see all of the dates of each month in the widget, which allows you to select dates easily. For an example, see Creating a Date Selection widget.
If a Date Selection widget is created as a widget, the selector can be displayed as a Grid/Graph, which still functions as a selector, in non-Flash modes in MicroStrategy Web. A Date Selection widget created as a widget can target Grid/Graphs and panel stacks, but cannot switch panels on a panel stack. (For more information on Grid/Graphs controlling panel stacks or other Grid/Graphs, see Enabling a Grid/Graph to control another Grid/Graph.) If you want the Date Selection widget to display as a standard selector such as a listbox or button bar in non-Flash modes, or to allow multiple selections, create it as a selector instead. For instructions, see Creating a Date Selection widget as a selector for display in Web. For examples of the differences between the two, see Creating a Date Selection widget.
You can display the Date Selection widget as a widget in MicroStrategy Web, or as an interactive calendar when on an iPad with MicroStrategy Mobile. For steps to define a Date Selection widget to be displayed on the iPad, see Creating a Date Selection widget for display on the iPad. For general information on iPhone and iPad widgets, see About iPhone and iPad widgets.
Note: A Date Selection widget created as a widget can be displayed as widget using Flash in DHTML interactive documents.
Open the document in Design or Editable mode.
From the Insert menu, point to Widgets, then Flash. Select Date Selection.
Click the location on your document, except for in the Detail section, where you want to place the widget. The Grid/Graph to be used as a widget, which appears similar to a standard grid container, is displayed. A small icon at the bottom right corner of the Grid/Graph to be used as a widget identifies the type of widget you have added to the document.
If required, resize the widget by clicking and dragging its handles.
To add objects to the Grid/Graph that contains the widget
From the Dataset Objects panel on the left, select attributes, and drag them on top of the widget, as described below.
Place one attribute on the Grid/Graph's rows. The attribute must contain a date type attribute (such as Day, Month, or Year) on the rows.
To view and test the widget
View and test your results in one of two ways:
Select Flash Mode from the Home menu.
If Flash Mode is not available, you must make Flash Mode available in the document. For steps, see Defining which display modes are available to users.
Select Interactive Mode from the Home menu.
The widget must be enabled to be displayed in non-Flash modes to be viewable in Interactive Mode. For instructions to allow a widget to be displayed in non-Flash mode, see Determining how a widget is rendered in non-Flash modes.