Tutorial 2:

Creating a Flash gadget

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for creating an animated Flash gadget to display a sales grand total. This tutorial continues with the report built in the previous tutorial, which used a Flash chart to display sales totals by product line. The Flash gadget in this tutorial uses the data from the data set created in the previous tutorial. If you want to skip creating the Flash chart in the previous tutorial, set up the data required by the Flash gadget by running through the following tasks from the previous tutorial:

Task 1: Create a new report

Task 2: Build a data source

Task 3: Build a data set

This tutorial covers the following tasks:

Add a Flash gadget to the report.

Select data for the linear gauge.

Divide the data area into regions.

Add thresholds.

Animate the region labels.

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