Configure and use selectors

With MicroStrategy Web, you can easily add interactivity between datasets in your document by configuring selectors. Selectors allow users to filter data based on selections made when viewing a document.

Esri Maps for MicroStrategy allows you to configure a map layer as a selector. For example, if your document has a map showing U.S. states and a grid showing addresses with profit and revenue, you can configure a selector that allows users to select a state or group of states in the map and have the grid update to show addresses for the selected states only.

Configuring a map layer as a selector in Design Mode or Editable Mode enables a set of selection tools in Interactive Mode. When viewing the document in Interactive Mode, document analysts can use these tools to make selections on the map and dynamically update other datasets in the document.

You can also configure a map layer as a target of a selector. For example, if your document has a grid showing U.S. states with profit and revenue and a map layer showing U.S. addresses, you can configure a selector that allows users to select a state in the grid and have the map update to show addresses for that selected state only.

To configure a map layer as a selector or as a target of a selector, your document must have at least two grid areas in the design window, one of which must be configured as a map, and both the map layer and the target grid must have an attribute in common. See Build a map-enabled document for more information about adding and configuring a map in Esri Maps for MicroStrategy.

Configure the map as a selector

Open the document in Design Mode.
On the report you configured as a layer on the map, right-click on the column header for the attribute that you want to use as the selector, and click Use as Selector.
In the Configure Selector window, click the target grid or the report grid displayed as a layer on any map in your document, and click the arrow button to add it to the Selected Targets list. You can select one or more targets.
Click Create to create the selector and return to the document.
Click the Interactive Mode button on the toolbar to view your document.
You will see a new Select entry under the Tools menu in the map. If you click Select, you will see a set of tools that you can use to make, remove, and clear selections on the map. See Use selectors.

Configure the map as a target of a selector

Open the document in Design Mode.
On the grid, right-click the column header for the attribute that you want to use as a selector, and click Use as Selector.
In the Configure Selector window, click the report grid you configured as a layer on the map and click the arrow to add it to the Selected Targets list.
Click Create to create the selector and return to the document.
Click the Interactive Mode button on the toolbar to view your document.
If you click the attributes in your selector grid, the map layers update to show the data corresponding to your selection only.

Use selectors

If a layer on the map has been configured as a selector, do the following:
1. Click features or use the selection tools to make selections on the map.
  To learn more about selecting features, see Select features on the map.
2. To make changes to the actions you want to trigger, click Links and selectors and choose the option you want. For example, if you want to add features to your selection without triggering a selector action, click the None option. You can also trigger a link action if it has been configured by the document designer.
  Tip:
  To trigger the selector action again after using other options, click the option button next to the selector action and click the Target icon.
If a layer on the map has been configured as a target of a selector, select attributes in the selector grid to update the layer.

For more information about selectors in MicroStrategy Web, see the MicroStrategy Web Help.