Selection List Walkthrough
Walkthrough
This example illustrates the dual input/output nature of Selection Lists. If you do not have access to this example dashboard, you can follow along with the screenshots.
1. Press the Dashboard tab at the top of the User Portal.
2. Select the Analysis tab at the bottom of the Portal to open the sample 'Analysis' dashboard.

3. Press the 'Bookmark' button at the top-right of the dashboard, and select the '(Home)' option. This ensures that you are starting from the dashboard's original configuration.
Note: Some Selection Lists submit automatically when you make a selection. To make multiple selections on this kind of Selection List, Ctrl-click when selecting options.
4. Select a few states (e.g., 'New Jersey', 'New York', 'Pennsylvania', 'Connecticut') in the 'State' Selection List.
Note that the 'Division' selection list now shows two items with green squares, 'Mid-Atlantic' and 'New England'. The remaining divisions are listed under 'Others'. The two green divisions are those that are compatible with the current 'State' selection. That is, the selected states are in the Mid-Atlantic and New England divisions.

5. You can now filter the results further based on division. Select 'New England' in the 'Division' list. When you make this selection in the 'Division' selection list, the 'State' selection list automatically updates.

Note the following features of the 'State' selection list:
a. Connecticut is shown with a green check mark. This indicates that you explicitly selected 'Connecticut', and the records for Connecticut were returned by the query.
b. Three states are shown with gray check marks (New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania). This indicates that you explicitly selected these states, but their records are not included in the result set because of an incompatible choice in another selection list. In this case, you explicitly selected the 'New England' division, so only records for New England states (i.e., Connecticut) are actually included.
c. Five states are shown with empty boxes (Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont). This indicates that records for these states are not included, but these choices remain compatible with your other selections. You can select these choices to widen your result set.
d. All other states are listed under 'Others'. This indicates that these records are not included, and moreover they are not compatible with your other selections. To better understand the 'Others' status, see the next step.
6. Now, expand the 'Others' node in the 'State' selection list. Notice that all incompatible states have a gray 'X' icon.
7. Select 'Delaware'.

Note that this clears the 'New England' selection from the 'Division' list. Whenever you add a selection from an 'Others' list, this resets any incompatible selections in other lists. In this case, the 'Division' list is reset to show only divisions compatible with the five currently selected states.
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