Basing a sparkline on descendants

A sparkline can show information about the descendants of a selected element, at a specified level of the hierarchy, for a particular slice of data. The parent element can be a specific element, or it can be the currently selected element in, for example, a combo box.

To base a sparkline on the descendants of an element:

  1. Select Descendants in the Sparkline Wizard.
  2. Select a sparkline type from the list at the top of the Wizard.
  3. Click Next.
  4. Select the Alias, Cube and hierarchy to use.
  5. From the Parent field, select the parent element or the report object (combo box, for example) which contains the parent elements.
  6. From the Children on level field, select the level of the hierarchy at which the required descendants are.
  7. To specify the slice of data to which the sparkline relates, select an element from each hierarchy of the selected cube.
Parent topic: Creating sparklines