When the dashboard is first loaded, it is often useful for contents to be given initial selections, so that the user isn't presented with a blank page. No initial selection is provided by default, but you can use the Initial Selection dialog, available on the popup menu of each content (or if you prefer, each view of the content). The dialog is shown in Figure 2.5, “Initial Selection Dialog”.
The choices for initial selection are:
- None
- The default - no items are initially selected.
- All
- All items are initially selected.
- First
- The first item is selected (depending on sort order, if any).
- Last
- The last item is selected (depending on sort order, if any).
- Values
- This option requires a field name and one or more values to compare against the records. All records that contain values of the chosen field that match the value strings will be selected. Note that values are strings, so any other data types will be formatted into strings if necessary, for comparison purposes.