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The property "Type" holds the type of the selector. This property offers a list of all possible
selector-types, from which you can select the desired.
Changing the type of a
selector using the
property
Changing the type using the context-menu
The faster way to change the type is to use the context menu of a selector. Open the context
menu using the right mouse button while holding the mouse over the selector. Now choose the
desired type from the sub-menu of the menu-item "Set type...".
Changing the selector
type using the context
menu
Setting the options
The property Options of a selector determines the options of a selector from which the user can
select entries when executing a query (e.g. "every year", months, products etc.). The options
are defined with a formula, the result of this formula is converted into the options.
There are two different ways of setting the options: By dragging expressions out of the
Model-Explorer or by directly manipulating the property "Options" of the selector.
Extending the options with drag&drop
The Model-Explorer offers different elements of the model and standard formulas, from which
you can drag the needed into the selector-area or onto an existing selector to define the
selector options.
The options of the selector are then extended by this new expression (the expression is added
to the previous expression using the join operator "|").
Changing the options property
You can alternatively edit the property Options manually and change the formula with which the
options are computed. Before editing the property you must select the selector-element so that
its properties become visible in the Property-Editor. This is the common way to set the options
for more complex expressions.
Setting the default selection
The default selection of a selector determines, which element of the options is selected when
the user executes the query the first time. If you set no standard selection for a selector (means
the property "Default" is empty) the selector will be empty with the first call of the query.
There are two different ways of setting the standard selection: By directly editing the property
Default or by using the context-menu of the selector: