Esri Maps for MicroStrategy (v2.0.2 Archive)

In this topic
  1. Configure the map as a selector
  2. Configure the map as a target of a selector
  3. Use selectors

This is an archive related to a previous version of Esri Maps for MicroStrategy. If you need the current version go to http://doc.arcgis.com/en/maps-for-microstrategy/.

Configure 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, and both the mapped 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

  1. Open the document in Design Mode.
  2. 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 press Use as Selector.
  3. In the Configure Selector window, choose the target grid or the report grid displayed as a layer on any map in your document, and press the arrow button to add it to the Selected Targets list. You can select one or more targets.
  4. Press Create to create the selector and return to the document.
  5. Press the Interactive Mode button on the toolbar to view your document.

    You will see a Trigger interactions entry under the Tools menu in the map. If you press Trigger interactions, you will see a set of tools that you can use to trigger configured selector actions by making selections on the map. See Trigger interactions.

Configure the map as a target of a selector

  1. Open the document in Design Mode.
  2. On the grid, right-click the column header for the attribute that you want to use as a selector, and press Use as Selector.
  3. In the Configure Selector window, choose the report grid you configured as a layer on the map and press the arrow to add it to the Selected Targets list.
  4. Press Create to create the selector and return to the document.
  5. Press the Interactive Mode button on the toolbar to view your document.

    If you press the attributes in your selector grid, the map layers update to show the data corresponding to your selection only.

Use selectors

  1. If a layer on the map has been configured as a selector, choose Tools > Trigger interactions in the map and follow the steps in Trigger interactions.
  2. 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.